Archive for March, 2009

Malicious Web Site / Malicious Code: Mass Fake Delta Airlines Ticket Confirmation Email Message

March 4, 2009 - Websense® Security Labs™ ThreatSeeker™ Network has discovered a scam involving the spread of email messages disguised as coming from Delta Airlines. As of right now, we have received more than 3000 samples in a week, and the number keeps increasing. The (continue reading...) Read more

Parental controls for cool online games, sites and gadgets

March 3, 2009 - Do you know the number one concern I hear from parents? It is how kids are so plugged into technology that they don’t know how to play. I think I was concerned about this a bit too, but not (continue reading...) Read more

Fewer Friends in Facebook Means Fewer Chances of Spam and Malware

March 3, 2009 - As a follow up to my last posting “Defriending in Facebook - Reduces Fram and Promotes Quality over Quantity,” I want to reiterate that you shouldn’t have hundreds of people on your friends list, unless you’re running for office (continue reading...) Read more

Metatags in malware websites

March 3, 2009 - An indexing robot is a program which tracks websites, storing their content in databases and following the links which point to other websites.Rogue antimalware creators don’t usually add tags to the code of their websites or they add them so (continue reading...) Read more

Marine One Blueprints found on P2P network

March 2, 2009 - What’s next — the missile launch codes? While the record industry has targeted the universities and student populations in their battle against piracy, P2P use has enjoyed continued success in the business world with the most recent example being the (continue reading...) Read more

MS09-002/MS09-004, Consistent Exploit Code Likely

March 2, 2009 - Two of yesterday's Microsoft Updates have Exploitability Index Assessments of 1 — Consistent exploit code likely.First there's MS09-002 which addresses two vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer 7. (continue reading...) Read more

Crack Sites Distribute VIRUX and FakeAV

March 2, 2009 - Trend Micro researchers discovered that warez and crack web pages are being used by cybercriminals as download sites for malware related to VIRUT and VIRUX. Searches for serial numbers, cracks, and even antivirus products like Trend Micro yield malcodes that (continue reading...) Read more

5 ways to keep your security job

March 2, 2009 - 1. Know your organization - Far too often us tech geeks get involved in the latest geek toys and instead we should be focusing on getting to know the people around us. It helps to have friends when the layoff (continue reading...) Read more

All this talk about Facebook and privacy…

March 2, 2009 - In the news the last few days is a bunch of talk about how bad everyone thinks Facebook is for storing your data “after the fact.” I do agree, I’d like to believe that I can get all the data (continue reading...) Read more

Safer Internet Day 2009

March 2, 2009 - Today is Safer Internet Day 2009 — an annual event coordinated by InSafe.Blog reader (MJ) sent us a reminder, some links, and highlighted this year's anti-cyberbullying campaign.German speakers can find more information from (continue reading...) Read more

We’re Gonna Need A Bigger Boat…

March 1, 2009 - Remember the movie Jaws where sheriff Browdy(Roy Schieder) sees the shark and says “We’re gonna need a bigger boat?” Enterprise IT managers might say the same thing when they see move networks or hulu networks on their network – if (continue reading...) Read more

New Variant of Koobface Worm Spreading on Facebook

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