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Security

Now Conficker Installs Rogue Antivirus SpywareProtect2009

April 13, 2009

Conficker began installing an antivirus that is referenced in SpywareProtect2009 infected computer, which shows their true intention.
Kaspersky reported that the worm started using its peer-to-peer mechanism yesterday   including program updates and false security. The new update is also an interesting new mechanism to automatically destroy itself after May 3 2009.
Microsoft Malware Protection Center blog [...]

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Be Aware, even Google Can Steal Your Data!

October 30, 2008

How hackers steal data is getting more sophisticated, they now involving more search engines technology such as Google. It only takes a few seconds to snatch Social Security numbers from Web sites by using the search method.
The fact that Social Security numbers on the Web is human error, because such information should not be published [...]

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How to Kick Out Fake Antispyware ‘XP AntiSpyware 2009’

October 28, 2008

Nowadays, more and more fake antispywares software that circulates and infected thousands to millions computers in the world. Besides coming from removable storage media such as pen drive, the spyware can spread through e-mail to send fake messages containing attachments.
Spywares act by providing a fake message that resembles the Windows program, which [...]

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7 top security issues of the 3rd quarter of 2008

October 20, 2008

AhnLab a global integrated provider of security services, recently announced the top 7 security issues of the 3rd quarter of 2008 in ASEC (Security Emergency Response Center) report.
According to the report, 16,768 new malware and spyware were recently discovered until the 3rd quarter of this year, increasing 2.6 times over the same period in [...]

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Electronic Voting Machine Vulnerability

October 9, 2008

Students who took the advanced levels of computer security training from Rice University in Houston city, is rumored to be able to break the software used in voting machines, that’s been a general application used in the election process, Electronic Voting Machine (EVM).
What’s the emphasis by the professor and deputy director of [...]

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Google Chrome’s carpet-bombing flaw

September 16, 2008

It seems that google is downplaying The Chrome’s carpet bombing flaw, recently Philipp Lenssen interviewed Brian Rakowski from Google here’s the quote;
“Lenssen: are ways to make Chrome automatically download a file without the user confirms this (at least using chromium default). Do not you consider that a potential problem?
Rakowski: On its own, downloading a [...]

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Google Chrome Vulnerability against carpet-bombing flaw

September 5, 2008

Chrome, Google’s new Web browser is vulnerable to a carpet-bombing vulnerability that could expose Windows users to malicious hacker attacks.
A few hours after the release of Google Chrome, researcher Aviv Raff discovered that he could combine two vulnerabilities ; a Java bug discussed at this year’s Black Hat conference and a flaw in [...]

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