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Twitter has been spammed, DDoS’ed, and knocked offline, and now it has been used as the command center for a botnet. A researcher last week was looking for clues about the massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on Twitter found a Twitter profile that was being used to send updates and malware to bots in an […]

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A Domain Naming System (DNS)-changing Trojan targeting Macs is currently making the rounds disguised as MacCinema Installer (detected by Trend Micro as OSX_JAHLAV.D. This is the latest variant of OSX_JAHLAV.C, which was identified in June.
The Trojan is supposedly a QuickTime Player update with the file name QuickTimeUpdate.dmg. As with its earlier variants, users are prompted to download the malware when trying […]

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Is a gamer not entitled to his accolades? Are his mantles not strong enough to hoist bronze statuettes and framed placards? Is he never to rise from the solace of his throne of bean-baggery, clenched fists caressing the sunrise as a green-screened mountain range draped with opaque patriotic banderole sails behind him?
No, say the parents […]

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A little over three months ago, the whole IT sector was waiting with bated breath for April 1. The latest DOWNAD/Conficker variant–WORM_DOWNAD.KK–was poised to strike. We know that on that day, it would attempt to access 500 of 50,000 websites and download new malicious files. This led to fears–somewhat misplaced–that new, possibly damaging payloads could cause […]

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It’s a long weekend and you’re happy because you’ll get to spend the next three days with your family. You left the office in an excited mood but as the cab was approaching home, you suddenly realized that you forgot to shut down the Office PC. Oops!
It’s a sinking feeling because there’re so many confidential […]

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So this morning I woke up not really able to sleep and was looking around on the internet for something to do. I just so happened to stumble across a little 2D Flash game which was in a way DOOM! Being a oldschool DOOM fan I thought the best thing to do would be to […]

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A U.S. district court has ordered key players in an international spam ring to give up $3.7 million they made by sending out illegal email messages pitching bogus Hoodia weight-loss products and a “human growth hormone” pill they claimed reversed the aging process.
In a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) law enforcement action, the court found that […]

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Just about everyone these days knows that the internet can be a pretty dangerous place to browse if you are not careful. With all the trojans, viruses, infected websites, scams, it seems that it is near impossible to keep yourself completely safe unless you just keep your computer unplugged from the internet. With all these […]

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I recently came across a form of online fraud that takes the guise of a legitimate-lookng news website. At first glance, the content of the purported news page appears real but after conducting further analysis, one will realize that the news page is actually a spammy site.
What’s supposed to be a news article is actually […]

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A new injection attack that redirects users’ Web search queries is in the wild, and researchers at Websense believe it may have already affected more than 40,000 sites. In a blog posted yesterday, Websense researchers indicated that more than 40,000 legitimate sites have been compromised with “obfuscated code that leads to a multilevel redirection attack, ending in […]

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