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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 120 days ago
Via: http://go.theregister.com | Tags: romanian phisher confesses scam targeting financial giants comments Discuss  
Scammer faces five years in slammerA Romanian man has admitted he took part in a sophisticated phishing scam that targeted PayPal and at least nine other financial institutions by tricking their customers into giving up their account credentials.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 99 days ago
Via: http://go.theregister.com | Tags: apple faithful snared phishing scam targeting mac users comments Discuss  
More MobileMe carnageHundreds of Mac users have been snared in a phishing scam that coincided with the glitches in the roll-out Apple's MobileMe service.… read more »
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Category: blogs | Posted by Avatar Staff 91 days ago
Via: http://securitylabs.websense.com | Tags: spam malware ecosystem targeting brazilian users youtube adobe flash themes comments Discuss  
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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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 86 days ago
Via: http://feeds.ziffdavisenterprise.com | Tags: attackers targeting linux infrastructures rootkit steal ssh keys comments Discuss  
U.S.-CERT is warning of attacks targeting Linux-based infrastructures using compromised SSH keys. After access is gained to the system, local kernel exploits are used to gain root access. A rootkit is then installed to steal more SSH keys. The attack could be related to a flaw affecting Debian-based encryption keys discovered earlier this year. - Hackers are launching attacks against Linux-based computing infrastructures using compromised SSH keys and installing rootkits, according to a warning by the U read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 86 days ago
Via: http://lists.jammed.com | Tags: isn attackers targeting linux infrastructures rootkit steal ssh keys comments Discuss  
From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:28:14 -0500 (CDT)http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Attackers-Targeting-Linux-Infrastructures-With-Rootkit-to-Steal-SSH-Keys/By Brian PrinceeWEEK.com2008-08-26 U.S.-CERT is warning of attacks targeting Linux-based infrastructures using compromised SSH keys. After access is gained to the system, local kernel exploits are used to gain root access. A rootkit is then installed to steal more SSH keys. The attack could be related to a flaw affe read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 80 days ago
Via: http://go.theregister.com | Tags: uk punters scowl webmail ad targeting comments Discuss  
Hands off our inboxesTwo in five Brits are worried that free webmail comes at the expense of privacy because firms are scanning their messages in order to serve up targeted ads.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 24 days ago
Via: http://lists.jammed.com | Tags: isn army defense task force targeting hackers comments Discuss  
From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 03:07:02 -0600 (CST)http://washingtontimes.com/news/2008/oct/27/army-defense-task-force-targeting-hackers/By Shaun Waterman UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONALOctober 27, 2008 The U.S. Army has set up a task force to counter the theft of sensitive data by hackers breaking into the computer networks of military contractors.The Defense Industrial Base Cyber-Security Task Force was quietly established earlier this year, in the face of what an Army docu read more »
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Category: blogs | Posted by Avatar Staff 9 days ago
Via: http://securitylabs.websense.com | Tags: hacker tool targeting ms vulnerability comments Discuss  
Websense® Security Labs™ has noticed a special hacker tool in China. In the past few weeks, Microsoft has announced and released a patch for the MS08-067 vulnerability, and a hacker tool named "wolfteeth bot catcher" has been widely used by hackers to attack machines running Windows operating systems without the KB958644 patch. Our write up of the original vulnerability details can be found here. Below is an analysis of the "wolfteeth bot catcher" tool. read more »
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