Feb

25

Hijacking huge chunks of the internet - a new How To

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More evidence that the intertubes are fundamentally broken has been served up by Wired.com in an article laying out a technique to surreptitiously hijack huge chunks of the internet and monitor or even modify unencrypted traffic before it reaches its intended destination.
The exploit of the routing protocol known as BGP, short for Border Gateway Protocol, […]

Feb

25

Microsoft dishes dirt on IE8 ‘pr0n mode’

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Microsoft has outlined the new privacy tools available in its forthcoming browser Internet Explorer 8 (IE8).
Earlier this week the company�s program manager Andy Zeigler confirmed rumours from last week that Microsoft would include a privacy browsing feature affectionately known as "porn mode".
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He said four new controls with be available in […]

Feb

25

Million bank details sold on eBay

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A computer hard disc containing one million sets of bank details was bought on eBay for just �35.
The secondhand PC contained details of customers from American Express, NatWest and Royal Bank of Scotland. The files included names, addresses, sort codes, account numbers, credit card numbers, mobile phone numbers, mothers’ maiden names and even scans of […]

Feb

25

MS beefs up WinXP Pro’s anti-piracy nagware

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Microsoft wants to rein in more Windows XP pirates over the coming weeks, by pushing out a new version of its �nagware� which detects when a machine is running a fake copy of the OS.
The company�s Genuine Windows director Alex Kochis said yesterday that Redmond will release the latest version of its Windows Genuine Advantage […]

Feb

24

Best Western plays down impact of hack attack

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Hotel chain Best Western has denied falling victim to a large-scale hacking attack.
A report in the Scotland’s Glasgow Sunday Herald claims that the hotel chain has been turned over by a hacker who lifted eight million customer records. It reports that the Indian hacker who carried out the heist sold on the information to Russian […]

Feb

24

Malware author punt Trojan with baby kidnap lure

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With a sick email malware campaign, pond dwelling scumbags are claiming to have kidnapped the children of would-be targets of infection.
The contemptible junk mail messages attempt to panic recipients into opening email attachment supposedly carrying images of abducted infants but in reality loaded with a variant of the Resex information stealing Trojan.
Net security firm Sophos […]

Feb

24

Warning of infected auction tool

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A third-party add-on for eBay used by thousands of sellers is being flagged by Google as potentially malicious, after it became infected with a trojan.
Auctiva provides tools for sellers on the popular auction website.
The company confirmed a virus had attached itself to files on its servers but remedied the problem soon after.
However, […]

Feb

23

New Symbian Trojan spotted

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The first malware to exploit Symbian S60 3rd Edition has been identified in the wild by security firm F-Secure. The company said that the code was a Trojan that could be used for spam among other purposes.
Trojan SymbOS/Yxe.A is still undergoing analysis, but it appears to use encryption and may be designed for […]

Feb

23

Conficker variant dispenses with need to phone home

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Virus authors have released a new variant of the infamous Conficker (Downadup) worm with enhanced auto-update features.
The changes in the new strain of the malware, dubbed Conficker B , make it possible for malware authors to push out new code without publishing it on pre-programmed sites, as with earlier variants. The earlier approach has […]

Feb

23

Symantec dismisses blind SQL hack claims

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Symantec’s website has been given the once-over by the same Romanian hacking group that exposed security problems with websites run by Kaspersky Lab, F-Secure and Bitdefender earlier this month.
The hacker, Uno, claims that the document download centre section on Symantec’s European site is vulnerable to a blind SQL Injection attack. This flaw in a secure […]

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