Fake Email of the Federal Police of Brazil ( Computer crimes investigation unit )
This fake email seems to be sent from the Computer crimes investigation unit of the Brazilian federal police department. It pretends to frighten users by accussing them of having accessed to ilegal websites from their computer and entices them to view the report by following a link. However, it is just another bait used by [...]
Brad Pitt Tops Charts For Most Celebrity Malware Sites (ChannelWeb)
Brad Pitt fans searching for the Hollywood actor on the Web have an 18 percent chance of having their PCs infected with viruses, spyware, Trojans and other malicious code original article
New Computer Security Threat – ClickJacking (About.com)
I know. You were sitting around thinking that computer security has gotten boring. You were like ‘viruses? worms? Trojans?…yawn’. You were thinking that spyware and phishing attacks are so yesterday…. original article
Blacklisting and Whitelisting: Color-Coding Security (E-Commerce Times)
For many businesses, keeping computers out of harm’s way is a full-time job. IT departments spend increasing amounts of resources keeping out the bad stuff or finding and removing it when malware does slip in from careless users or sloppy adherence to best practices. Viruses, spyware, Trojans and many more unwanted programs can cause serious [...]
New critical Security Bulletin MS08-067
Yesterday Microsoft published an extraordinary security bulletin called MS08-067. This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in the Server service. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution and it is exploited by sending a specially crafted RPC (like Sasser, Blaster) request to a vulnerable system. On Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server [...]