Archive for September, 2008

Question of email security on these days is even more important since the beginning to use it for sending sensitive information. The cause of this is possibility to fake an email sender’s name. In case of Sarah Palin, her email was hacked and all information was posted as a screen-shot. More...

PandaLabs had reported recent increase of fake antivirus applications. Frequently appearing as free downloads on the internet, these applications pass through antivirus and firewall as utilities; also they can be embedded in other type of files like music or video files downloaded by user. When installed on the machine they invite user (who often do not recognize malware existing on his computer) to buy full version of antivirus by loading endless pop-ups that offer cleaning up system from fake virus. More...

Almost every computer user knows how difficult it is to remove malware, but do you know how difficult it is to make a malicious website to infect computers? According to experts at Panda Security, it’s not difficult at all. They discovered a tool dedicated to creating fraudulent business. It might look scary at the first sight, however fighting devil you know is much easier than not knowing what to expect. More...

Google Chrome attracts users from around the world like a new shiny toy, but security experts recommend waiting till security issues are fixed. Vulnerabilities of popular software are reported every day. Things are like that because the more widespread application is; the more computers are infected when security holes are found. More...

Every social network, every webmail system and every website that requires registration for browsing or using services, has some way to remind passwords to registered members. Some of them simply ask for some kind of ID to send the new password to predefined email address. Some of password reminders are more sophisticated and requires entering mother’s maiden name or the name of kindergarten teacher. More...

Although there are plenty of ways and tools to block pop-ups, there always seems to be more ways to deliver unwanted advertisements no matter what blocker or filter technologies are used on a computer. Scammers recently found a new way to pass pop-ups blockers and other security tools and bring annoying advertisements to the potential customers. The new scheme employs Adobe Flash. More...

If you and your friend have email accounts provided by the same ISP or you got those on the same webmail system, you will receive different amounts of spam messages. And the number of spam even might be uninfluenced by sharing email address online. The newest research once again confirmed the fact that spambots often send the spam blindly by generating various email IDs. More...

Kaspersky Security Network technology has been active for more than two months now; it gathered interesting information at the time. The statistics of August and July are very different, although the most widespread parasite (Trojan. Win32. More...

NASA admitted that several laptops at International Space Station were infected with worm dedicated to steal passwords. NASA spokesman claimed it wasn’t the first incident of this kind, but he also assured it doesn’t happen frequently. The infected computers were not responsible for any critical tasks; therefore worm hadn’t made any major harm. More...