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Category: blogs | Posted by Avatar Staff 771 days ago
Via: http://www.websensesecuritylabs.com | Tags: streamlined anticaptcha operations by spammers on microsoft windows live mail comments Discuss  
Websense Security Labs ThreatSeeker™ technology has discovered that Windows Live Mail accounts have been targeted in recent spammer tactics. In these recent attacks, spammers have managed to create bots that are capable of signing up and creating random Live Mail accounts that could be used for a wide range of subsequent attacks. Windows Live Mail is a part of the Microsoft Windows Live portfolio of services. It is a free webmail service by Microsoft. It was first announced on November 1, 2005 as an read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 711 days ago
Via: http://www.infoworld.com | Tags: as storm fades botnet fight on comments Discuss  
When Owen Walker was arrested for masterminding a massive international network of compromised computers last year, it seemed like a major victory in the war against botnets. read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 306 days ago
Via: http://go.theregister.com | Tags: six months on macs plagued critical java vuln comments Discuss  
No Java applets for you!More than six months after Sun Microsystems warned that a flaw in its Java virtual machine made it trivial for attackers to execute malware on end users' machines, the vulnerability remains unpatched on Apple's Mac platform.…Video - Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 261 days ago
Via: http://lists.jammed.com | Tags: isn centuries on cryptologist cracks presidential code comments Discuss  
From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 04:20:14 -0500 (CDT)http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124648494429082661.htmlBy RACHEL EMMA SILVERMANThe Wall Street JournalJuly 2, 2009For more than 200 years, buried deep within Thomas Jefferson's correspondence and papers, there lay a mysterious cipher -- a coded message that appears to have remained unsolved. Until now.The cryptic message was sent to President Jefferson in December 1801 by his friend and frequent correspondent, Robert Patt read more »
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