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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 283 days ago
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http://www.pcw.co.uk/personal-computer-world/news/2209293/strom-worm-making-millions-dayBy Clive AkassPersonal Computer World 11 Feb 2008The people behind the Storm worm are making millions of pounds a day by using it to generate revenue, according to IBMs principal web security strategist.Joshua Corman, of IBM Internet Security Systems, said that in the past it had been assumed that web security attacks were essential ego driven. But now attackers fell in three camps.I call them my three Ps, profit, polit read more »
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Category: blogs | Posted by Avatar Staff 283 days ago
Via: http://www.symantec.com | Tags: same storm day comments Discuss  
As Valentines Day approaches, we see the Storm team have made yet another change in an effort to further populate their army of bots. A subsection of their herd that have been hosting the Valentines-related content now presents the visitor with one of eight randomly themed images and bestows upon them the gift of "valentine.exe," detected as Trojan.Peacomm.D. The page serves up a random image file per visit (or refresh of the page), probably via some server-side scripting. A five second delay using a me read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 283 days ago
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 280 days ago
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=security&articleId=9062538By Gregg KeizerFebruary 13, 2008ComputerworldThe Valentine's Day campaign that the bot-building Storm Trojan horse has been running for weeks is running at such volume that even the FBI issued a warning yesterday."With the holiday approaching, be on the lookout for spam e-mails spreading the Storm Worm malicious software," the FBI said in an alert [1] posted to the home page of its Web s read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 251 days ago
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Semi-automated attack or chain-mail gangWhy should miscreants bother to develop cutting edge programming techniques when they can pay $3 to somebody to set up spam-ready webmail accounts on their behalf? Evidence has emerged that people as well as malware are being used to defeat CAPTCHAs, challenge-response systems that are often used to stop the automatic creation of webmail accounts by spammers.… read more »
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Category: blogs | Posted by Avatar Staff 233 days ago
Via: http://blog.washingtonpost.com | Tags: april fools day warning fun comments Discuss  
The cyber criminal(s) behind the Storm worm want to make an April Fool out of you today. The Storm worm author(s) likes to use holidays and other notable calendar occasions to launch new attacks. True to form, new versions of the Storm worm were blasted out yesterday as links in an e-mail that included a taunting image of an idiot in a fool's costume wearing a "kick me" sign. Anyone foolish enough to follow the...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry. read more »
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Category: blogs | Posted by Avatar Staff 233 days ago
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This post has been updated. Please read through to the end. Original post: The cyber criminal(s) behind the Storm worm want to make an April Fool out of you today. The Storm worm author(s) likes to use holidays and other notable calendar occasions to launch new attacks. True to form, new versions of the Storm worm were blasted out yesterday as links in an e-mail that included a taunting image of an idiot in a...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry. read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 213 days ago
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Forwarded from: Radu Sion <sion (at) crypto.cs.sunysb.edu>Dear Colleague,As you may know, this year's Security and Privacy Day is held at Stony Brook on May the 30th. We are very excited for the first time to have a *2-day* event, including (depending on interest) a second day of academic and social mingling, boat trip and Long Island vineyard tours. For more details please see http://web.crypto.cs.sunysb.edu/spday/.We are sending this message well in advance to allow you to mark your calendars accor read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 197 days ago
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http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?newsID=12186By Robert McMillanIDG News Service07 May 2008WabiSabiLabi, the company best known for building an online marketplace for security flaws, is getting into the hardware business.The company is working with a so-far unknown Italian company called Oneshield Security to build a unified threat management (UTM) appliance that will integrate the research generated by WabiSabiLabi's network of researchers.WabiSabiLabi did not say how this partnership will read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 196 days ago
Via: http://www.infoworld.com | Tags: parasitic botnet spams billion day comments Discuss  
The Srizbi botnet has stormed over its competition to become the Internet's biggest spammer. read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 195 days ago
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Forwarded from: Radu Sion <sion (at) crypto.cs.sunysb.edu>Dear Colleague,This is a call for participation to this year's Security and Privacy Day, at Stony Brook on May the 30th. We are very excited for the first time to have a *2-day* event, including (depending on interest) a second day of academic and social mingling, boat trip and Long Island vineyard tours. For more details please seehttp://web.crypto.cs.sunysb.edu/spday/.We are sending this message to remind you to register online (free). If yo read more »
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