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Are you using the latest web browser?

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2008-07-16 13:24:00 by Panayiotis Mavrommatis in Google Online Security Blog
Written by Thomas Duebendorfer In view of mass defacements of hundreds of thousand of web pages - with the intent to misuse them to launch drive-by download attacks - security researchers from ETH Zurich, Google, and IBM Internet Security Systems were interested in looking at the other side of the attack: the web browser. By analyzing the web...
 
Tags: browser, web browser, browser version, versions, secure versions, obsolete browser, web browser versions, web browser users, web
 
 
 
 
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Are you using the latest web browser?

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2008-07-16 13:24:00 by Panayiotis Mavrommatis in Google Online Security Blog
Written by Thomas Duebendorfer In view of mass defacements of hundreds of thousand of web pages - with the intent to misuse them to launch drive-by download attacks - security researchers from ETH Zurich, Google, and IBM Internet Security Systems were interested in looking at the other side of the attack: the web browser. By analyzing the web...
 
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Web Server Software and Malware

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2007-06-05 09:30:00 by Niels Provos in Google Online Security Blog
Posted by Nagendra Modadugu, Anti-Malware Team In this post, we investigate the distribution of web server software to provide insight into how server software is correlated to servers hosting malware binaries or engaging in drive-by-downloads We determine server operating system by examining the 'Server:' HTTP header reported by most web...
 
Tags: servers serve malware, servers, apache servers, malicious servers, web server software, server software, web servers, microsoft iis, microsoft iis features
 
 
 
 
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Monetizing Web Site Defacements

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2008-06-13 11:54:20 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
What used to be a harmless web site defacements back in the old school days, is today's ongoing monetization of defaced web sites, a logical development given the consolidation between different underground parties, evidence of which can be seen in the majority of incidents I've been analyzing recently The Africa Middle Market Fund ' site is...
 
Tags: site, web site defacements, site helps webmasters, web site defacement, web sites, sites, traffic exchange, traffic, traffic suppliers
 
 
 
 
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NAPA Shows How the Government is Using Web 2.0

2008-07-16 20:45:37 by Julia Lim in ScienceLogic
 
Back in April, we attended a session at the FOSE conference that highlighted Web 2.0 usage in the public sector . We also found through a survey of government workers that 65% of government IT workers surveyed said that Web 2.0 tools are important to their operations. The overall message was that all IT, government included, have too many...
 
Tags: web, government, web page, government web, collaboration, mass collaboration, collaboration project seeks, government employees, enhance government transparency
 
 
 
 
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Web Server Software and Malware

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2007-06-05 09:30:00 by Niels Provos in Google Online Security Blog
Posted by Nagendra Modadugu, Anti-Malware Team In this post, we investigate the distribution of web server software to provide insight into how server software is correlated to servers hosting malware binaries or engaging in drive-by-downloads We determine server operating system by examining the 'Server:' HTTP header reported by most web...
 
Tags: servers serve malware, servers, apache servers, malicious servers, web server software, server software, web servers, microsoft iis, microsoft iis features
 
 
 
 
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Yet Another Web Malware Exploitation Kit in the Wild

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2008-12-02 06:24:43 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
With business-minded malicious attackers embracing basic marketing practices like branding, it is becoming increasingly harder, if not pointless to keep track of all XYZ-Packs currently in circulation. How come? Due to their open source nature allowing modifications, claiming copyright over the modified and re-branded kit, the source code of...
 
Tags: kit, malware exploitation kit, nuclear malware kit, zeus crimeware kit, malware, exclusive kit, nuclear grabber kit, apophis kit, ddos malware kit
 
 
 
 
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New Web Malware Exploitation Kit in the Wild

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2008-11-19 04:15:01 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
Oops, they keep doing it, again and again - trying to cash-in on the biased exclusiveness of web malware exploitation kits in general, which when combined with active branding is supposed to make them rich. However, despite the low price of $300 in this particular case, this copycat kit is once again lacking any signification differentiation...
 
Tags: malware, malware exploitation kit, web based malware, nuclear malware kit, ddos malware kit, zeus crimeware kit, wild, key features worth, metaphisher malware kit
 
 
 
 
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Web Site: Security and Trust

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2007-01-18 07:10:00 by RaviC in Musings on Information Security
Many of us have this notion that a web site that is accessible securely through https can be trusted. This is not true. Not all the sites that use https can be trusted. Nothing can stop fraudsters from setting up a https web site. Though https offers security it does not offer trust. Trust is a choice that the user has to make consciously. Here...
 
Tags: web site, https, https web site, trust, offer trust, web site belongs, https url, https offers security, ensure