After A Lull, Botnets Back In Business

After a lull in the fourth quarter of 2010, spam appears to be back in full force, according to reports from both Websense, Commtouch and Symantec Corp.Spam volume was up 45% in the first half of January after diving in Q4 according to a Commtouch spam report. Reports show the recently dormant...

Spammers Moving to Social Networks

Its not just Wall Street giants like Goldman Sachs that see dollar signs hovering over Facebook. Spammers are hopping on the social networking giant to fool users, according to a report from security firm Cloudmark. Spammers are using botnets to send a barrage of malicious e-mail spam that mimic...

Report : Attacks on social media to rise in 2011 !

ESET, a security solution provider for viruses and malicious software, has released its cyber-threat report for 2011, predicting that attacks on Facebook and other social networks will increase over the coming year. The report prepared by specialists and searchers in the business also says the...

'BitTorrent' exploit could be used to stage massive cyber attacks !

With the Federal Bureau of Investigations FBI treating successful cyber attacks by "Operation Payback" as criminal offenses, a new level of ambiguity is being introduced into the enforcement of cyber crime laws. The FBI was treating efforts by "Anonymous" and "4chan" as an "unauthorized and knowi...

Canada Introduces Bill C-28 to Combat Spam with Hefty Fines

Spam is arguably the most irritating aspect of the internet and email for people globally. However, there is hope in Canada for those who have been targeted by spammers. A new law, Bill C-28, aims to facilitate government efforts in prosecuting and fining individuals and companies guilty of sendi...

The Evolution of Malware: From Viruses to Stuxnet

In the latest edition of the Lab Matters video series, Ryan Naraine talks with Eugene Kaspersky about the state of the malicious Web and the evolution of malware from viruses to worms to botnets to Stuxnet and beyond...

Cyber Fraud: Tactics, Techniques and Procedures

Gone are the days when those BlackHat Hackers would tickle you for fun, Now they will poke you & take your diamonds without you even knowing anything about it until it's too late. Landscape in the Cyber underground has completely changed since then, making it more like well organized business...

Уязвимости в Joomla

Здравствуйте 3APA3A! Сообщаю вам о найденных мною Insufficient Anti-automation и Abuse of Functionality уязвимостях в Joomla. Уязвимости имеют место в компоненте comcontact, который является стандартным компонентом Joomla. Детально о подобных уязвимостях, о рассылке спама через сайты и создании...

Hackers Leverage Cloud Computing to Crack Passwords Efficiently

On-demand cloud computing is a valuable tool for companies needing temporary computing capacity without long-term investment in fixed capital. However, this same convenience makes cloud computing useful to hackers. Many hacking activities involve cracking passwords, keys, or other forms of brute...

Week in Security: Further Flaws in Mobile Security and the AppSec Rundown

The storm clouds over mobile security continued to gather this week with news of a new browser exploits for Android and a URL attack for iPhones, while OWASP’s AppSec conference in D.C. provided an update on Uncle Sam’s security priorities. Read on for Threatpost’s security Week in Review. The...

Security Week In Review: Evercookies, SQL Slammer and a Flood of Patches

This week seemed to be all about the numbers as a handful of reports were released, disclosing new stats on phishing, information theft and spam. Evercookies, the inside story of SQL Slammer, and of course, the usual array of patches, rounded out the week. Read on for the full week in review. The...

Real SEO Feeding Traffic to Fake Search Engines

Online scam artists are using black hat search engine optimization SEO techniques to push more than just malicious software. In fact, SEO is increasingly being used to drive traffic to a range of phony Web based search engines that are feeding cost-per-click advertising scams, according to a blog...

Spammers 'Gearing Up' Botnets for Holiday Rush

Spammers are pushing out e-mail borne malware at unprecedented rates in an apparent attempt to build up botnets in advance of the busy holiday shopping season, according to a report by Google. Writing on the company’s enterprise blog, Adrian Soghoian and Adam Hollman of the Google Postini Service...

Week in Review: Patch Overload and Confronting Mobile Malware

Patches – and plenty of them – took center stage this week as two big software companies shipped substantial updates. Some alarming news also broke regarding the growing number of botnets operating out of the U.S. Read on for the full week in review. Microsoft’s band of patches, pushed Tuesday,...

Report: FCC May Push ISPs To Crack Down on Botnets

We’ve known for a long time that botnets are the Madwoman in the Attic at most major Internet service providers ISPs- an unseemly and occasionally embarrassing presence that is occasionally dealt with, but usually silently tolerated. But now, it seems, there’s pressure mounting on ISPs to do...

SOL11719 - Mitigating risk from SSH brute force login attacks

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Botnets Using Ubiquity as Security

LIMASSOL, CYPRUS–The operators of large-scale botnets such as Gumblar and others for years have relied upon stealth, creativity and guile to hide their creations from researchers and authorities for as long as possible. This has been especially vital for botnets with centralized command-and-contr...

CAPTCHAs Get the Botnet Beatdown

Botnets increasingly are creating phony online accounts on legitimate websites and online communities in order to steal information from enterprises. Merrick Furst, botnet expert and distinguished professor of computer science at Georgia Tech, says bots are showing up “en masse” to customer-facin...

Have We Lost the Desktop Security Battle?

For years, security experts, analysts and even users have been lamenting the state of desktop security. Viruses, spam, Trojans and rootkits have added up to create an ugly picture. But, the good news is that the desktop security battle may be over. The less-than-good news, however, is that we may...

How Many Botnets Exist? Depends on the Data

How many botnets are there? Symantec says 6.8 million, but a former Symantec executive at Immunet and a key creator of the Internet Security Threat Report says his former company is off by several magnitudes of order. Gunter Ollmann of Damballa concurs with Immunet and puts the numbers between 19...