Mozilla Add-ons Serving Malware
by Frank Jovine on 02/08/2010 in Security, Virus Threats
The most embarrassing thing about all this is that these infected experimental add-ons have been available for download for several months. How can Mozilla be unaware of this for that long?
According to Mozilla, version 4.0 of Sothink Web Video Downloader is infected with password sniffer Win32.LdPinch.gen and Master Filer is infected with the backdoor Trojan [...]
Blogs Targeted By Cyber Crooks
If you’re one of the lucky blogs that have a good Pagerank and Alexa ranking, your blog could be in danger. In most cases, bloggers work hard to obtain good ranking scores and cyber crooks look for those same ingredients to target attacks.
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Twitter Users Change Your Password Now!
Twitter once again has made news, but not good news. The microblogging site has asked a large number of users to reset their passwords due to unusual activity relating to a large increase in followers on certain accounts.
This is becoming far too common for Twitter and users are ready to walk very soon, unless Twitter [...]
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Most rogues do their dirty work by using an overwhelming number of detections (some, and maybe most, are false positives) to scare a novice into purchasing the rogue to remove what was either not there in the first place, or is trivial (like a tracking cookie or a missing help file).
Some like the one I [...]
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Attention SEO Warlords and Poachers! Have you noticed any changes in Yahoo’s search lately? If not, than you are too consumed by Mother Google and you may miss out on something that could help you and your clients.
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SpamAssassin 3.3.0 Released
It has been a long time since the last release of SpamAssassin back in May of 2007. The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has announced the availability of version 3.3.0 of the SpamAssassin spam filter.
SpamAssassin is an open source project that serves as an email filter to identify Spam. SpamAssassin uses a variety of mechanisms including [...]
Immunet Protect by Community
Immunet Protect is a free AntiVirus solution that leverages intelligence from a global community to protect everyone else from virus threats and malware in real time. It’s more than a localized solution, it is global community collaboration (digitally). What does this mean? You can now leverage the computers of your friends, family and a worldwide [...]
Full StoryTwitter Vulnerability Discovered
This vulnerability could have opened a door for hackers to steal user login information. This flaw was discovered by a security researcher who has asked the social media company to fix the problem.
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