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The Storm botnet strikes again

Once upon a time, the Storm botnet was responsible sending out 20 percent of all spam, but was eventually crippled by the rise of new malicious software removal tools. By the …

Securing the Borderless Network: Security for the Web 2.0 World

The future of the Web is mobile, virtualized, and collaborative. Among all the positive aspects and advantages that these changes will bring, there will also be some problems …

New malicious PDF

A new type of malicious PDF file has recently been spotted in the wild. This one contains an malicious object that was embedded into the file through the use of common the …

Poisoned search results: Our daily reality

The biggest threat to search engines are not their competitors, but poisoned search results. Since the moment when search engines have largely become the starting point for …

A closer look at EXE Password Protector

Eltima’s EXE Password Protector (v. 1.1.6.214) allows you to password-protect any Windows executable file (excluding only system-critical files which influence Windows …

Changes in new ZeuS variants

The ZeuS/Zbot Trojan variants have been around for a long time. It has come to the point where the name is no longer recognized only by security specialist, but by the general …

Scammers’ link architectures

As much as it hurts us to admit, online scamming shares many of the characteristics of a legal business. Why? Because, in the end, they have the same goal – revenue. To …

A ZeuS killer? Not really

The “Kill ZeuS” feature of the SpyEye crimeware toolkit is more likely to bring in more money to the ZeuS toolkit makers than to encroach upon their territory. How …

Facebook shows its true face

The F8 conference has ended, and Facebook has started making changes and setting the stage for the announced spread through the entire Internet. They might not put it like …

iPad users with PCs threatened by backdoor malware

A malicious spam email campaign has been targeting iPad users who own PCs, says Bitdefender. The message is the following: The message claims that updates have been released …

CAPTCHA solving farms headed for extinction?

Most employees in developed countries usually balk at the idea of doing a repetitive task for 8 hours a day for a low pay, so outsourcing simple (but monotonous) jobs has been …

Russian hacker offers 1.5m Facebook credentials for sale

What will Facebook do if the Russian hacker Kirllos’ claim that he has in his possession login credentials for 1.5 million Facebook accounts proves to be true? The …

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