Week in review: Malicious email attachments, phishing trends, China’s cyber army and Halloween attacks
Here is an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, interviews and articles: Q&A: Malware threats, Windows 7 and cyber crime Bo Olsen is a malware …
Facebook spammer has to pay big money
Facebook has won the court battle against Sanford Wallace, one of the spammers who obtained access to people’s accounts and used them to spam their friends. He is …
DHS to open new cyber operations center
During a roundtable at RSA Conference Europe last week, Philip Reitinger, U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Deputy Under Secretary for the National Protection and …
Careless spammer reveals tricks of the trade
I guess it had to happen sooner or later. After looking at who knows how many spam-and-scam occurrences, Patrick Fitzgerald of Symantec has struck gold while investigating the …
UK’s own “three-strikes” anti-piracy law announced
Following the decision of the European Parliament that enables European member states to approve laws that force ISPs to disconnect individuals from the Internet, the UK is …
Facebook hit by phishing scam and banking Trojan combo
Facebook users should be on the lookout for an email threat that is posing as a message from Facebook administrators. The message contains both a phishing scam and a notorious …
Network access control system PacketFence 1.8.5 released
PacketFence is a free and open source network access control (NAC) system. PacketFence is actively maintained and has been deployed in numerous large-scale institutions over …
Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala released
Released today, Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop Edition and Server Edition bring a host of new features and further position Ubuntu as a viable competitor to Windows 7. Ubuntu 9.10 …
Spear phishing scammers target Taiwan officials
TrendLabs reports that they have discovered several instances of “spear phishing”. Spear phishing is a specific type of phishing fraud that involves customizable …
Trick or treat? Attackers exploit Halloween to infect users
Panda Security has uncovered a new Halloween-related search engine optimization attack. With October 31 just around the corner, and many Internet users searching for issues …
New trends in identity theft
Identity theft is America’s fastest-growing crime. More than 70 million identities will be lost this year alone with as many as 3 million social security numbers being …
Wireshark 1.2.3 supports Windows 7 and upgrades security
Wireshark is a popular network protocol analyzer. It is used for troubleshooting, analysis, development, and education. Wireshark 1.2.3 fixes the following vulnerability: It …
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