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Russian hosting network runs a protection racket

2008-02-19 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b42838 in Network World on Security
 
The Russian Business Network, a notorious hacker and malware hosting network, runs a protection racket that extorts as much as $2,000 a month in fees for "protective Web services" from borderline sites, a researcher alleged Tuesday
 
Tags: network, protection racket, russian business network, protective web services, notorious hacker, runs, borderline sites, month, malware
 
 
 
 
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McAfee's Site Advisor Blocking n.runs AG - "for starters"

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2008-08-04 09:42:49 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...runs AG ( nruns.com ), whose research into vulnerabilities in antivirus products received a lot of attention lately, is also flagged as a dangerous site Excluding the conspiracy theories, a false positive when your solution is integrated in the second most popular search engine is bad, especially when other automated crawling approaches are...
 
Tags: site, site advisor, org due, org, dangerous site, specific site, malicious, harmful sites, sites
 
 
 
 
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Vulnerabilities in Antivirus Software - Conflict of Interest

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2008-07-24 04:38:07 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...runs restates its position Several days after blogging about a research conduced by n.runs AG that managed to discover approximately 800 vulnerabilities in antivirus products , McAfee issued a statement basically debunking the number of vulnerabilities found , and providing its own account into the number of vulnerabilities affecting its own...
 
Tags: vulnerabilities, day vulnerabilities, security vulnerabilities, antivirus software, day vulnerabilities auction, software vulnerabilities, products, runs claims, security products
 
 
 
 
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Turning on cruise control

2008-01-18 07:26:00 by Keith Brown in Security Briefs
 
...runs from the command line and the other runs in the background as a service. When you log in as an administrator and run ccnet.exe it naturally runs very smoothly. And this is where I started, with a very simple project that downloads code from one of our Subversion repositories. Once I got a NANT script working to build and deploy the code...
 
Tags: cruisecontrol, cruisecontrol logs, account, cruisecontrol log file, log, low-privilege account, ccnet configuration, ccnet, files
 
 
 
 
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Another Wisconsin mailing exposes Social Security numbers

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2008-01-15 13:32:24 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...runs before production runs At least the Packers are in the NFC Championship game. Go Pack Past Breaches January, 2008 - Wisconsin Dept. of Health and Family Services mails Social Security numbers December, 2006 - Wisconsin mails tax forms with Social Security numbers printed on them
 
Tags: security, taxpayers, taxpayers social security, social security, wisconsin, credit bureau, credit, breach description, breach
 
 
 
 
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Supporting your family, friends, and neighbors

2008-02-13 17:45:40 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...runs the next time a computer boots. It scans for and removes common malware like certain prevalent worms and rootkits. Since the tools introduction, millions of computers have been cleaned of billions of pieces of malware If you need to quickly scan a computer for malware, try the Windows Live OneCare safety scanner. Its free, and it might...
 
Tags: suspicious e-mail message, mail, home computers defense, home computers, e-mail, home, web mail, windows live mail, site
 
 
 
 
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Wrapping up Threat Modeling

2008-02-14 22:51:35 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...runs the threat modeling tool to produce a threat modeling document. In our particular case, Im not sure its easily avoided We ask people to analyze their designs (as part of the SDL). To do that, they diagram the design, then have a threat modeling meeting in which someone runs the codename tool to produce a threat modeling document In fact,...
 
Tags: threat, threat modelers, threat models, threat model, design, design specification, specification, set, challenges set people
 
 
 
 
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Wee-Fi: The New Muni-Fi; Akron Ecstatic; State Park-Fi; Transport-Fi

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2008-04-11 12:43:00 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...runs down some transportation-Fi: The newspaper runs through a list of where Wi-Fi is available on various means of transit
 
Tags: akron, foundation, knight foundation, offer internet access, internet access, project, center, knight center, communities
 
 
 
 
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BlackBerry PDF Distiller Vulnerability

2008-07-15 21:36:34 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
...runs on the BlackBerry Enterprise Server. The advisory is somewhat unclear as to whether the BlackBerry device is itself vulnerable; more likely it is the server on which the BlackBerry Attachment Service runs that can be compromised by a malicious PDF file. This service has been compromised in the past by malicious files, as its job is to...
 
Tags: blackberry, pdf, reads pdf files, pdf files, blackberry device, blackberry enterprise server, blackberry attachment service, attachment service, distiller