The amount of spam relating to Valentine’s Day has risen from two to three per cent of all spam to nine per cent this week alone.
MessageLabs claims that 6.5 per cent of the spam sent has originated from the Cutwail botnet, with one to two per cent of spam sent from the Xarvester botnet. The company claimed that the most active botnet Mega-D, has not been involved in sending St. Valentine’s related spam so far.
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January 12th, 2009 in
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Russian antivirus vendor Kaspersky Labs’s US website was hacked over the weekend, exposing the company’s customer database, but Kaspersky has denied data was compromised and says the vulnerability wasn’t critical.
An unidentified hacker reported over the weekend that he was able to access a complete profile of the company’s databases, revealing its clients’ names, activation codes, list of bugs the company tracks and… read more »
January 12th, 2009 in
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Microsoft is facing increasing heat over the security implications of a change designed to make Windows 7 more user-friendly than its predecessor.
One of the chief complaints with Windows Vista is frustration with all the warnings that pop up to notify users that changes are being made to the operating system. With Windows 7, Microsoft has changed the feature so that users see fewer messages by default and also so they have more control in decidi… read more »
January 12th, 2009 in
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Websense is to launch new email and web security services.
Websense Hosted Email Security and Websense Hosted Web Security enable protection from emerging Web 2.0 and converged threats. With recent claims made that the cloud can be a potential host for malware, the email service will clean a message in the cloud before it reaches its destination.
Additionally, Websense claimed that if a user attempts to click on a malicious link in an email or ot… read more »
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unbelt Software has announced the top ten most prevalent spyware and malware threats spotted in January.
The report was compiled from monthly scans performed by Sunbelt’s anti-spyware tool CounterSpy and the new anti-virus and anti-spyware solution VIPRE. The company claimed that the results represent the number of times a particular spyware or malware infection was detected during CounterSpy and VIPRE scans that report back to Sunbelt̵… read more »
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Nasa hacker Gary McKinnon has said he is ’safe’ until the director of public prosecutions makes a decision about whether to prosecute him in the UK.
At the Royal Courts of Justice on Tuesday, McKinnon told ZDNet UK that home secretary Jacqui Smith had decided not to extradite the self-confessed hacker to the US to face charges of hacking military networks until Keir Starmer, the director of public prosecutions, had decided whether to … read more »
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Server break-in nets info on people who were on agency’s payroll in February 2006
February 10, 2009 (Computerworld) The Federal Aviation Administration disclosed yesterday that it is investigating a data breach in which the personal data of about 45,000 employees and retirees was apparently stolen from a server at the agency.
The compromise resulted from an intrusion into the system that was storing the data, the FAA said in a brief stateme… read more »
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Security experts from US government agencies, multinational companies and academia have released a list of what they consider to be the 25 most critical errors made while coding software.
Participants from more than 30 organisations worked together to agree on the 25 “most dangerous” errors, the SANS Institute said in a statement on Monday. They included experts from the US National Security Agency, the US Computer Emergency Response … read more »
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Proving that no company is immune to hacking, security firm Kaspersky Labs had its databases pried open by clever hackers.
If you felt a little bit foolish last time you were taken advantage of by a cunning hacker, give yourself a break: It even happens to the guys who know what theyâre doing. In what could be called the computer equivalent of a break-in at the police station, databases at the computer security company Kaspersky were hacked … read more »
January 12th, 2009 in
Anti-Virus
Security researchers have discovered a flaw affecting Google’s Chrome browser that exposes it to clickjacking â where an attacker hijacks a browser’s functions by substituting a legitimate link with a link of the attacker’s choice.
Google has acknowledged the flaw and is working towards a patch for Chrome versions 1.0.154.43 and earlier when running within Windows XP SP2 systems, according to SecNiche security researcher Ad… read more »
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