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Old Facebook Worm Using New Ways To Spread By Abusing Google Reader And Picasa Websites

2008-11-01 06:15:48 by CyberInsecure in CyberInsecure.com
 
Researchers at unified threat management vendor Fortinet noticed that a program similar to the Koobface worm had started using the Google Reader and Picasa websites to spread. In the attack, criminals host images that look like YouTube videos on the Google sites in hopes of tricking victims into downloading malicious Trojan software. Hackers...
 
Tags: google reader, picasa websites, criminals host images, koobface worm, malicious trojan software, koobface, youtube videos, program similar, spread
 
 
 
 
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Thwarting a large-scale phishing attack

2007-06-11 11:35:00 by Niels Provos in Google Online Security Blog
 
Posted by Colin Whittaker, Anti-Phishing Team In addition to targeting malware, we're interested in combating phishing, a social engineering attack where criminals attempt to lure unsuspecting web surfers into logging into a fake website that looks like a real website, such as eBay, E-gold or an online bank. Following a successful attack,...
 
Tags: myspace, myspace profiles, real myspace content, myspace account, attack, dummy myspace account, phishers move, phishers, lower-value sites
 
 
 
 
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Cyber Jihadist Hacking Teams

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2007-12-17 20:03:29 by HASH0x847073c in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
These groups and fractions of religiously brainwashed IT enthusiasts utilizing outdated ping and HTTP GET flooding attack tools, represent today's greatly overhyped threat possed by the cyber jihadists whose cheap PSYOPS dominate, given the lack of strategical thinking, and the lack of sustainable communication channels between them, ruined all...
 
Tags: anti-islamic web sites, islamic web sites, web, jihad, electronic jihad program, campaign, electrnic jihad campaign, web sites, cyber jihad
 
 
 
 
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My 2008 Security Predictions!

2008-01-09 15:42:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
I just have to start with this quote from Rich Mogul : "... Legions of armchair futurists slobber over their keyboards, spilling obvious dribble that they either predict every year until it finally happens or is so nebulous that they claim success if a butterfly flaps its wings in Liechtenstein." :-) Amen to that, Rich. Onwards to my 2008...
 
Tags: security, security predictions, broader information security, information security, smb security, virtual security appliances, security market, security solutions, security software
 
 
 
 
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Benevolent Worms

2008-02-19 06:57:11 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
This is a stupid idea: Milan Vojnovic and colleagues from Microsoft Research in Cambridge, UK, want to make useful pieces of information such as software updates behave more like computer worms: spreading between computers instead of being downloaded from central servers The research may also help defend against malicious types of worm, the...
 
Tags: software worms spread, worms, software, bad software distribution, worm, successful worm, beneficial worms, software distribution mechanism, worm quieter
 
 
 
 
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SDL and Web 2.0

2008-02-28 22:26:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
Hi everyone, Bryan Sullivan here Unless youve been living in an ice cave on the polar cap for the last month, youve heard about Microsofts proposed acquisition of Yahoo. George Hulme of InformationWeek wrote a very insightful column about the proposed acquisition and what it would mean for Yahoos Web 2.0 properties. My favorite quote from this...
 
Tags: web, site, chriss web site, mashups, web mashups, site cookies, persistent cross-site, cookies, benefit anyones web
 
 
 
 
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Because Hackers Don't Care... (Why Metrics Don't Work)

2008-04-29 13:23:00 by Allen Baranov, CISSP in Security Thoughts
 
Lets start with some statistics 99% of all workstations with up-to-date antivirus Antivirus blocks over 99% of all malware That is amazing! That is great stuff to show the IT Director, CIO, CSO, mom and to put on the wall. But, yet, a company I know (not the one I work for) still managed to get a virus which brought about some painful...
 
Tags: antivirus blocks, antivirus, virus writer, virus, network, network downtime, pcs, risk, residual risk
 
 
 
 
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Kids with Cell Phones in Emergencies

2008-08-14 12:20:24 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
In the middle of a sensationalist article about risks to children and how giving them cell phones can help, there's at least one person who gets it. Since the 1999 Columbine High School shootings and the 9/11 terrorist attacks, many parents feel better having a way to contact their children. But hundreds of students on cell phones during an...
 
Tags: cell phones, irrational security decisions, trump, expedite parental traffic, kenneth trump, national school safety, huge difference, cell phone, terrorist attacks
 
 
 
 
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Cyberattack Against Georgia Preceded Real Attack

2008-08-18 13:11:09 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
This is interesting: Exactly who was behind the cyberattack is not known. The Georgian government blamed Russia for the attacks, but the Russian government said it was not involved. In the end, Georgia, with a population of just 4.6 million and a relative latecomer to the Internet, saw little effect beyond inaccessibility to many of its...
 
Tags: georgia, indirect russian action, russian, georgian government, government, russian troops, spread, georgia spread, government web sites
 
 
 
 
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Thwarting a large-scale phishing attack