Archive for May, 2008

Computer security researchers came up with an idea why internet isn’t a safe place. The conclusion is amazingly simple but it doesn’t bring any good news for now: millions of websites can be infected with the same single trick, but fixing each vulnerable website requires unique and complex solution. That’s why patching a single web page takes more time than infecting thousands of websites. More...

AusCERT security conference may have gone well, but it still failed at certain point. Infected USB sticks were unintentionally given out at single presentation raising a question if the lecturers are really capable of discussing computer security. The malware was noticed pretty quickly and organizers recalled all the infected pieces as soon as the infection was found. More...

Mac/Apple lovers used to be proud of more stable and more reliable systems, but the time has passed. Apple products are not an alternative chosen only by eccentrics; they made it to the mainstream. That’s the time when hackers, scammers and all the others turn their heads into unexplored fields of Macs. More...

Ron Cooke, pop-ups scammer, finally received what he deserved. Well, those victims that fell for his online trap might think different, but at least he was charged for what he did. Ron Cooke used Windows Messenger Service to attack people with commercial pop-ups and then he used to offer a pop-ups blocker. More...

Spam celebrates anniversary this year: 30 years have gone since the day a clever manager sent 400 email messages to potential customers inviting them to a presentation. Luckily, the name of the manager is being kept in silence; otherwise many would go on a headhunt to punish the one that gave a start to spam over the internet. The guy didn’t have any bad intentions and the spam message was much different from spam we know today. More...

You have been there before: you got extremely interesting file that requires some kind of special player to see what’s inside. Why don’t you download and install the needed software? Unfortunately, both the file and the player are snare to make you voluntarily install adware. Worms, trojans and adware used to use fake video codecs to infect computers; apparently people don’t fall for that anymore. More...

Computer parasites are evil. No one likes them and almost everyone can share terrible experience related to some malware attack. But can malware tactics be employed to do something useful and harmless? Most of malware is not really complicated; however it is capable of spreading through computers using software vulnerabilities and other methods. More...

The damage done by zombie networks grows by days, yet botnets are not easy to stop or even to detect. Fortunately, creators of legitimate software keep in pace with malware factories and designs tools for eliminating botnets. A new tool by Microsoft was tested by Canadian police to detect and arrest major cyber criminals. More...