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Fake Porn Sites Serving Malware - Part Three

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2008-08-26 09:02:26 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
Continue the Fake Porn Sites Serving Malware and Fake Porn Sites Serving Malware - Part Two series, in part three we'll take a peek at the emerging trend of parking a single domain at up to three different hosting locations, re-establishing connections between malicious ISPs for yet another time in between exposing the domains and the download...
 
Tags: fake porn sites, net, info, codec, malware, php, sample codec, locations, fake porn site
 
 
 
 
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Major ISPs step up to curb child porn

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2008-06-10 05:50:00 by HASH0x8b04530 in StillSecure, After All These Years
Image via Wikipedia Actually they were forced to step up. Steven Musil reports that according to this NY Times article , NY State Attorney General, Andrew Cuomo has forced several of the largest ISPs including Verizon, Sprint and Time Warner Cable to institute blocking of web sites and usenet groups that traffic in child pornography. I say what...
 
Tags: sites, illegal sites, andrew cuomo, cuomo, isps, andrew cuomo credit, child porn, porn, illegal
 
 
 
 
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D.C. government works to recover from online porn debacle

2008-01-25 00:00:00 by Brad Reed in Network World on Security
 
After firing nine government employees for visiting "an egregious amount" of pornographic websites, the District of Columbia announced this week that it has implemented a filtering scheme that would screen porn on all government computers
 
Tags: government computers, pornographic websites, government employees, egregious amount, porn, district, week, scheme, columbia
 
 
 
 
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Making porn searches a bit easier

2008-02-22 08:56:31 by Editor in Adventures in Security
 
It's 3 PM on a Friday afternoon. You get a frantic call from a manager in accounting. She has reason to believe that a guy on her staff is looking at and storing child porn on his office desktop. Typically, you see your Friday night plans dissipating rapidly. Instead of meeting friends for a little R&R, You'll be tediously working to detect and...
 
Tags: analysts process images, images, friday night plans, child porn, friday afternoon, frantic call, press release, office desktop, target system
 
 
 
 
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In The News: Porn-Spam Mastermind Busted (Probably), Bugs in Your Jet

2008-04-02 12:33:35 by Editor in IT Security - The IT Security Industry's Web Resource
 
Porn Spammer Accused by Washington State Attorney GeneralGotcha! According to Vnunet.com, at least one of the weasels who flood your morning email with pornographic spam has been nailed or at
 
Tags: attorney generalgotcha, pornographic spam, porn spammer, email, vnunet, flood, weasels, washington
 
 
 
 
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Is Spam Porn for the Security Industry?

2008-10-16 14:39:00 by mcurphey in Mark Curphey - SecurityBuddha.com
 
We have all heard stories (urban myths?) about how the porn industry has driven technology from early DVDs to streaming distribution on the grid. Could spam be a new driver helping artificial intelligence get smarter to solve complex low level security problems? Technology (an MIT Review site) has just published a story about how spam
 
Tags: spam, mit review site, porn industry, urban myths, technology, artificial intelligence, grid, story, smarter
 
 
 
 
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Terrorists and Child Porn, Oh My!

2008-10-22 12:57:17 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
It's the ultimate movie-plot threat: terrorists using child porn : It is thought Islamist extremists are concealing messages in digital images and audio, video or other files Police are now investigating the link between terrorists and paedophilia in an attempt to unravel the system It could lead to the training of child welfare experts to...
 
Tags: terrorists, child porn, child welfare experts, monitor pornographic websites, islamist extremists, movie-plot threat, digital images, terrorist involvement, signs
 
 
 
 
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Blackhat SEO Redirects to Malware and Rogue Software

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2008-06-05 07:59:47 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
A black SEO farm with built-in redirection to a multitude of sites serving rogue codecs (Zlob malware variants) and fake security software phoning back to UkrTeleGroup Ltd's network - could it get even more interesting? Of course, as the current state of Zlob malware serving tactics can be seperated in two distinct groups, those abusing the...
 
Tags: sites, profile sites, multimedia sites, codec sites, zlob variants, zlob, zlob malware variants, rogue codec sites, domains
 
 
 
 
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Summarizing July's Threatscape

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2008-08-01 16:08:24 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
July's threatscape -- consider going through June's summary as well -- once again demonstrated that nothing is impossible, the impossible just takes a little longer where the incentive would be the ultimate monetization of the process Russian hacktivists attacking Lithuania and Georgia, several Storm Worm campaigns, a couple of new malware...
 
Tags: malware, profitable malware operations, malware authors, malware tools, malware coder, malware kit, malware infection, neosploit malware kit, spam