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Best practices for avoiding the trap

2008-07-12 16:31:48 by Doug Woodall in The Spyware Biz Blog
 
TrendMicro has some great writers. This is another great article on how to avoid the Social Engineering trap. The attacks are evolving, they are becoming quite good at getting you to click that link clipped from newsletters.trendmicro.com Combating social engineering From the savvy teenager to the Board room executive, awareness rules....
 
Tags: email, email addresses, email address book, social, executive receives, unknown source, executive, unknown, trap
 
 
 
 
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Parents, guardians, and teachers can best protect kids online

2008-08-22 18:23:41 by Doug Woodall in The Spyware Biz Blog
 
...TrendMicro staff. Get the family together and go over the dangers online clipped from newsletters.trendmicro.com Social Networking and Young People: Know the Risks As kids return to school in August and September, many of them also return to their home computers, which they increasingly use for school assignments. But, in addition to...
 
Tags: kids, social, social interaction, return, kids return, school assignments, computers, trendmicro, school
 
 
 
 
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Social Networking Guidelines for safety

2008-08-24 16:18:37 by Doug Woodall in The Spyware Biz Blog
 
...TrendMicro. Where do they get these writers clipped from newsletters.trendmicro.com Guidelines for Online Socializing Parents, teachers, and others who care for young people who are socially active online should first set reasonable expectations. Forbidding young people to use social networking sites may force them to go underground...
 
Tags: online social life, social, online, active online, set reasonable expectations, mobile phones, positive alternative, guidelines, trendmicro
 
 
 
 
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Unprofessionally Piggybacking on my Research

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2008-03-05 13:32:05 by HASH0x8b0effc in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...TrendMicro , McAfee and Commtouch realizing that corporate blogging evolved from hard selling and the basics of marketing, to a complex PR platform, and therefore quote and link to my blog, to have me link back, so that a conversation emerges . Redefining the process of rephrasing so that my creative commons license per post is not violated?...
 
Tags: post, original post, blog post, post yesterday, blog, chia, iframe-ed results, full-disclosure, link
 
 
 
 
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Embedded Malware at Bloggies Awards Site

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2008-03-12 18:36:48 by HASH0x8b6b2fc in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...TrendMicro assessed on Monday The Web site of the Annual Weblogs Awards more informally known as the Bloggies was hacked recently, serving up a malicious Javascript to its visitors. This happened on the eve of the award ceremony, as reported in NEWS.com.au An embedded malware screenshot is worth a thousand words, so here it goes attached,...
 
Tags: malware, timely malware, event based malware, site, malware screenshot, icepack, descriptive icepack host, info, bloggies
 
 
 
 
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Quality and Assurance in Malware Attacks

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2008-04-02 11:49:20 by HASH0x8b57b3c in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...TrendMicro, VBA32 Talking about reactive security, the concept of doing this has always been there, and will continue to evolve despite that the most popular online multiple anti virus scanning services started sharing all the infected samples between the anti virus vendors themselves. And now that malware authors are also starting to...
 
Tags: malware authors start, malware authors, malware, authors, services, malware services, start, malware product, malware campaign
 
 
 
 
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Beware the Zangobot!

2008-05-16 09:01:00 by Russ McRee in HolisticInfoSec.org
 
...Trendmicro claiming Zango and Storm: Possibly in Cahoots How could I pass? This is indeed the prospect of a Zangobot From Trend's post: "The presence of these clues means either of two possibilities. One, that Storm is now targeting computers that have Zango adware installed in them, or two, that Storm has now been commissioned to deploy...
 
Tags: deploy zango adware, zango, zangobot, zango adware, zangobot graphic, storm, information security book, winner receives mention, adware company notorious
 
 
 
 
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The Whitehouse.org Serving Malware

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2008-05-21 02:38:02 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...TrendMicro's blog According to Trend Micro Advanced Threats Researcher David Sancho, whitehouse.org has been compromised to harbor some malicious, obfuscated JavaScript code which background downloads code to unsuspecting visitors of the site, where a malicious file is downloaded (which is detected by Trend Micro as TROJ DELF.GKP ). Of...
 
Tags: whitehouse, malware, malicious, malicious domains, original whitehouse, org, malicious file, parody site, site
 
 
 
 
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Great article about keeping your kids safe online

2008-06-14 16:02:24 by Doug Woodall in The Spyware Biz Blog
 
...trendmicro.com Threat Landscape (Part I Keeping Your Kids Safe from Unwanted Content and Contact The Internet is now an integral part of everyday life for most people. And within a short period of time, it has evolved from simply a tool for accessing information and conducting communication and commerce to becoming a significant venue...
 
Tags: time, hands time, tool, kids safe, distribution tool unimaginable, people, significant venue, schools approach, short period
 
 
 
 
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Summarizing June's Threatscape

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