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Steve McQueen fan, clearly...The arrest of yet another illegal immigrant working at the House of Commons has revealed an unexpected vulnerability in the Home Office's plan to secure the UK's borders. What if they arrive at Heathrow and just run for it?… read more »
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Brazil is the home of the infamous Infostealer.Bancos family of malware. Recently, however, we have seen a more diverse number of sites - beyond just banking sites - coming into the crosshairs of the Brazilian malware gangs. Is the recent W32.Imcontactspam worm another of their creations? The worm is Brazilian and spammed the infected users’ MSN contacts with email advising them that they had received an electronic greeting card. We see these types of worms quite often; however what caught our attention read more »
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Websense has discovered an ecosystem representing the combined tactics of spammers and malware authors targeting Brazilian users. This ecosystem comprises automated bots, templates of spam content with links encouraging users to watch a video on YouTube (Brazilian site). Through these email campaigns, the spammers invite targeted users to a fake page that resembles the Adobe Flash Player download site (Brazilian version), encouraging users to download the Adobe Flash installer which is actually a malicious read more »
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Zombie farmer suspects sent to the penA Brazilian man who allegedly sold access to a huge network of compromised PCs has been charged with computer hacking offences in the US.… read more »
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A Brazilian man has been charged for trying to rent out a botnet that would be used to send spam, U.S. authorities said Thursday. read more »
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A federal grand jury has indicted a Brazilian man for selling the Shadow botnet as well as the underlying bot code. Federal authorities allege the man was a key figure in the operation of the Shadow botnet, which infected more than 100,000 computers worldwide. - A federal grand jury has indicted a Brazilian man for his role in the proliferation of the infamous Shadow botnet. Leni de Abreu Neto of Taubate, Brazil, was indicted on one count of conspiracy to cause damage to computers worldwide by a fed read more »
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Computer cracking carbon footprintMalicious hackers have been charged with all manner of misdeeds, from mounting the biggest military hack ever to sending Viagra to Bill Gates to crashing sewerage systems. On Friday, Greenpeace accused cybercrooks of conspiring to allow actions that threaten the balance of nature by helping to destroy the Amazon rainforest.… read more »
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Google Adsense spoofedOne of Brazil's biggest banks has suffered an attack that redirected its customers to fraudulent websites that attempted to steal passwords and install malware, according to an unconfirmed report.… read more »
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OPINION: Attack shows the potential for serious spoofing attacks that could leave end-users helpless. The only real solution is DNSSEC, which will take years to implement under the best of circumstances. - An unsubstantiated report claims that a successful DNS cache poisoning attack was conducted recently against Banco Bradesco, a Brazilian bank. The reports are in Portuguese. This Google translation explains it in typically clumsy, broken English. The actual DNS cache belonged to Brazilian ISP NE... read more »
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From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:49:18 -0600 (CST)http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/11/brazil_blackout/By Marcelo SoaresThreat LevelWired.comNovember 9, 2009A massive 2007 electrical blackout in Brazil newly blamed on computer hackers was actually the result of a utility company's negligent maintenance of high voltage insulators on two transmission lines, according to reports from government regulators and others who investigated the incident for more than a year.In read more »
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The Brazilian government is refuting a report aired on Sunday by the CBS news magazine 60 Minutes, which stated that power blackouts in the South American nation in 2005 and 2007 were caused by hackers. Meanwhile, a large swath of Central Brazil is still reeling from another massive blackout that occurred in the region Tuesday evening. Citing six unnamed sources in the intelligence, military and cybersecurity communities, 60 Minutes claimed that a two-day outage that affected 3 million people in the Brazil read more »
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