Cloud-hosted malware, bot blasts, compromised smartphones, and privacy-busting malvertising are a few of the security pitfalls we can expect this year.
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This post was written by Ted on March 10, 2010
-->Top 10 Security Challenges For 2010 (InformationWeek)
Chinese Man Under Investigation For Google Hacks (redOrbit)
The Financial Times reported on Monday that U.S. government analysts believe a Chinese man with government links wrote the key part of a spyware program that was used in online attacks on Google last year.
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This post was written by Ted on March 10, 2010
-->Mariposa Stats
One of the most interesting things in order to know how the bot behind Mariposa has been spreading is to study the geographical distribution of the infections. Unlike other cases, the Mariposa Working Group stats don’t come from scanning PCs. In order to avoid the DDP Team from controlling Mariposa, …
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This post was written by Ted on March 10, 2010
-->Microsoft Security Advisory (973811): Extended Protection for Authentication – 3/9/2010
Revision Note: V1.3 (March 9, 2010): Updated the FAQ to announce the rerelease of the update that enables Internet Information Services to opt in to Extended Protection for Authentication. For more information, see Known issues in Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 973917. Advisory Summary:Microsoft is announcing the availability of a new feature, Extended Protection for Authentication, on the Windows platform. This feature enhances the protection and handling of credentials when authenticating network connections using Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA).
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This post was written by Ted on March 10, 2010
-->Vodafone distributes Mariposa-like bot
Pedro Bustamante has just published a new blog post in the Panda Research blog, about a Mariposa-like bot as special gift in a new HTC distributed by Vodafone. For the same price you can be infected with other 2 ‘gifts’: Conficker and Lineage 
Read the full story in Panda Research …
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This post was written by Ted on March 9, 2010
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