Archive for September, 2007

Two researchers at the University of Toronto, Dr.Alejandro Jadad and Peter Gernburd did a research on the authenticity of spam mail, that advertises drugs. They set up 3 e-mail accounts and monitored the spam being sent to them.
In one month the accounts were sent 4,153 spam messages (82% of the total amount of mail). 32% […]

They just can’t stop distributing this malware. Storm Worm (also knows as Peacomm) appeared o January of 2007. It is a regular trojan just like many others you can find online if you don’t browse carefully. But this one has infected many computers because of tactics of its distribution. It uses spam emails with links […]

According to a survey by Symantec, in the trade for personal details collected by cyber-criminals, the most expensive are bank account numbers (up to $400) and are a lot more expensive than credit card details (anywhere from $0.5 and $5) as well as e-mail addresses ($2 to $4 per megabyte).
This highlights the commercialization of e-crime […]

More than a year ago we have heard of Google and StopBadware.org cooperation in tagging malicious websites and warning users of those. As time goes by, several features were added and more companies and organizations joined the project to fulfill one big idea – to reduce malware online.
Google has tagged malicious websites with help of […]

Consumer Report's 2007 "State of the Net"
survey has estimated that the amount of money lost by U.S. consumers to spyware, viruses and phishing schemes over the past 2 years has been 7 billion dollars.

The Consumer Reports National Research Center has surveyed over 2,000 households that have access to the internet.
According to the report, comsumers have […]

We have heard of spyware cookies related to trojans earlier this week. New cookies that are similar to these appeared on web recently. If you notice Porndrive, Popular-Ticket, WMVmedialease, Play-Mega, Totalcodec, Plus-Codec, Vacwebsoft or VideoAccessCodec on your computer, run antispyware scan immediately. These cookies are related either to Zlob trojan or other trojans that are […]

According to Symantec’s latest security threat report, an increasing number of internet-attack victims are big brand online retailers, who lag in addressing their vulnerability issues due to financial problems.
The biggest increase of attacks was against the e-commerce sector-15% more than in 2006.The lead, however still belongs to the financial services sector, which is the victim […]

According to Sophos report, most of malware is made in China. It doesn’t mean that malware is the main Chinese product, but it’s clear that this country is not as interested in cyber safety as the others on this planet. The report claims that almost 54% of world’s infected websites are hosted in China. These […]

I think all of us know how important it is to have a strong password to secure your accounts. If you choose your password to be your name or the same as your login name, any prankster can guess it just for fun. By the way, the newest registration forms won’t allow your password to […]

Host-Codec, Freerealitympegs, FreePornMoviesWorld, Hotelcodec, GoCodec, GreatCodec, Micro-Codec, Inc-Codec, Net-Codec, Online-Codec, Nmextensions, Zlob.Playjust.Cookie and Page-Ticket are the names of spyware cookies that have started to infiltrate computers recently. If your security scan locates one of these files and it is not able to remove it, you should be concerned. All these cookies are made to track […]