Archive for 'Privacy'
The Perfect Crime
Your location is now known by your friends and family thanks to the service by Foursquare. This would be the perfect time for a former friend to take revenge against you. This so-called friend you pissed off now wants harm done to you like their worst enemy. The prefect crime is about to unfold. You [...]
Full StoryInvisible Browsing – Secure and Anonymous
How can I browse the internet securely and anonymously? I have fielded these questions many times for many of my social network friends. There’s a much better way to surf anonymous instead of using free proxy servers. The problem with free proxy servers is that you are served up with ads and annoying headers with [...]
Full StoryCraigslist Accused for Promoting Prostitution
It looks like Craigslist is in hot water once again. As a user of Craigslist I am disappointed with the moderating of the discussion forums. There are way too many users who I consider bullies and will just mark you as a spammer, but in this case, someone isn’t watching over the erotic services section. [...]
Full StoryNew Trojan Alert and Removal Instructions
Trojan.Chromeinject.A is a Trojan horse that steals information from the compromised computer. When executed, the Trojan searches the compromised computer for the location of the Mozilla Firefox browser and copies itself as the following files: %SystemDrive%\[PATH TO FIREFOX]\plugins\npbasic.dll %SystemDrive%\[PATH TO FIREFOX]\plugins\npbasic.dll1 %Temp%\[RANDOM FILE NAME].tmp It then modifies the following files in order to steal information [...]
Full StorySpam Bots On The Rise Again
It didn’t take long (2 weeks) after the McColo host company was shut down for the world’s biggest spammers to get back online and start updating all their bots, a recent report by FireEye revealed. This means that all the time we’ve enjoyed with less spam is over now that the Srizbi botnet – responsible [...]
Full StoryInternet Underground – Organized and Rich
Did you know that you can buy a keystroke logger for $23 or pay $10 to have someone host your phishing scam? Having a botnet at your fingertips will cost you $225, and a tool that exploits vulnerability on a banking site averages $740 and runs as high as $3,000. That’s according to the Symantec [...]
Full StorySpam Gang Shut Down
The closure of a web hosting firm that is believed to have had spam gangs as clients has led to a drastic reduction in junk mail. Two US internet service providers have pulled the plug on the firm McColo following an investigation by the Washington Post newspaper. Anti-spam firm Ironport has seen junk mail levels [...]
Full StoryMcCain and Obama Networks Hacked
Reports indicate that hackers cracked into the networks of John McCain and Barack Obama during the US presidential campaign. CNN and Newsweek cited sources within both camps as reporting that hackers from an undisclosed foreign location targeted each network over the summer in an attempt to acquire information. The report did not specify which group [...]
Full StoryWindows Users Patch Adobe Now!
There’s a critical, remotely exploitable vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat/Reader version 8. According to an advisory from Core Security, Adobe Reader suffers from a stack buffer overflow when parsing specially crafted (invalid) PDF files. The flaw could be exploited if a user is tricked into opening a rigged PDF file, the company warned. From the alert: The [...]
Full StoryMalicious Email Spam on the Rise
The amount of spam containing dangerous attachments designed to infect PCs with malicious viruses increased by eight times between July and September this year, according to Sophos. The security firm said one in every 416 email messages received between July and September was spam compared to just one in every 3,333 emails between April and [...]
Full StorySave $50 on Kindle Thanks to Oprah
Thanks to Oprah, Amazon is offering a special discount of $50 on the price of Kindle which can be availed by entering the promotional code “OPRAHWINFREY” in the checkout pipeline on Amazon.com (The offer is valid through Nov 1, 2008). Oprah praised and proclaimed Kindle through her quoted words- “new favorite gadget”, “life changing”, “the [...]
Full StoryDarkmarket website in the Dark
Huge catch and good move by law enforcement! I wonder what took so long to shut this fraudulent web site down. A website that was popular with online ID fraudsters worldwide has been shut down for good thanks to coordinated action from a number of law enforcement agencies across the globe. The three-year old website, [...]
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