Web surfers beware! A sophisticated hacking scheme seen early last year is affecting an increasing number of Web servers, including one owned by a major online advertising company, the chief technology officer of Finjan Software said Monday. It appears that a single gang is behind the attacks, since the malicious software it spreads is storing […]
A new Trojan program is targeting unwitting users’ bank data by intercepting account information before it is encrypted and sending it to a central attacker database.
PC World says: “The Trojan, dubbed Trojan.Silentbanker by security software company Symantec, can intercept online banking transactions that normally are well guarded by two-factor authentication procedures. During a banking transaction, […]
You may ask: “What is a Botnet?” A Botnet is a jargon term for a collection of software robots, or bots, which run autonomously and automatically. They run on groups of “zombie” computers controlled remotely by crackers. This can also refer to the network of computers using distributed computing software. While the term “botnet” can […]
The World Wild Web is a dangerous place with viruses, exploits, spyware and malware looking to infiltrate your system and cause all sorts of havoc. Even the latest security patches and virus updates does not mean your PC is vulnerable. One method that these web rogues use to do this is via malicious websites or […]
Just in time for Cyber Monday: Web security experts warn: the ‘vulnerability affects a lot large web sites.’ Shop online? Check your urls, and don’t use ‘rigged’ links:
“Web users can protect themselves against attacks that attempt to exploit the flaw in the Google appliances is to inspect Web links. The rigged links will be very […]
Both Internet Explorer 7 and Mozilla Firefox 2.0 include anti-phishing safeguards, a method of preventing fake sites from masquerading as the real ones in your browser. Too bad they haven’t yet patched a scripting vulnerability that allows hackers to do pretty much the same thing in malware web pages: steal passwords and logins by […]
Rob Pegoraro reviews 5 years of working with Windows XP and lessons learned along the way. Windows Vista may have its own unique set of problems; if only we knew what they were beforehand. While we may not know Vista’s future problems, we can take action to repair XP’s shortcomings. Help Windows XP overcome its […]
A great flexibility of any commandline environment is the built in ability to write scripts to automate processes, particularly repetitive ones. Linux affords the greates flexibility with thousands of commands available in varying flavors across multiple different shells (Bourne, Korn, Bash, etc) on many different flavors of distributions. However, Windows provides its own […]
A long standing problem has been fake antispyware programs. This week PC Magazine reports on two new programs.
The first program is named Brave Sentry. Brave Sentry is identified as a “rogue antispyware program.” It pushes all the right buttons when suggesting you install it but manages to take over portions of your […]
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