Entries Tagged ‘malware’:
filed in Internet, Software on Aug.24, 2008
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Protect yourself from online threats such [...]
Tags: Browser, Firefox, malware, scams, Software
filed in Internet, Software on Aug.23, 2008
Phishing is a well known way to entice you to visit a Web site that can exploit your browser and plant malware on your machine. Web content filtering isn’t enough to combat malware deployed over the Web because content filters usually analyze entire sites and not specific pages. So if malware is hosted on a [...]
Tags: bots, Exploits, malware, Software, Trojans
filed in Internet, Privacy on Aug.10, 2008
What do they use? The Coreflood Trojan horse to infect massive numbers of PCs that gathers confidential information, including bank account numbers and passwords.
The Russian hacker group is at it again using a Microsoft administration tool to steal passwords. This is not new as they have been doing this for years.
A sampling of 11% of [...]
Tags: cyber crime, Hackers, malware, Theft, Trojans
filed in Computers, Internet on Aug.09, 2008
After two recent worm attacks on Facebook, the popular social networking site responded last night with a statement about its security practices. Regarding the attacks, Max Kelly, head of security at Facebook, wrote this in a blog post:
“We spent most of last night working on a fix for a worm, which was targeting people on [...]
Tags: Facebook, Hackers, malware, Social Networks, Worms