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Install and Configure Oh My Zsh and use it in VSCode
If you use the simple Bash Terminal in your OS, you may want to give Zsh a try to use a faster and safer terminal with many more features. The simple Bash th...
Set permanent custom resolution for Ubuntu and KDE Using Xrandr and Xsetup
After switching from Gnome and Unity to KDE, I had a problem with SDDM and it was that it could not detect correct resolution for my UltraWide monitor and s...
Google Chrome in Ubuntu keeps detecting network change
Recently I had problem with my Ubuntu, Whenever I tried to open a website my Chromium told me that a Network Change has been detected and after 1-2 reload th...
oi!
Ace is the eighteenth studio album by German band Scooter released on 5 February 2016 through Sheffield Tunes & Kontor Records, preceded by the first sin...
All the world’s a Stagefright
Here’s how security vulnerabilities are supposed to be handled. One, a researcher discovers an issue. Two, the people who make the software find a solution. ...
Taylor Swift’s Vanity Fair PhotoShoot 2015
PHOTOS: Taylor Swift, Photographed by Mario Testino
Taylor Swift Notches Six Months at No. 1 on Billboard Artist 100
from Taylor Swift Universe
Facebook farewells flaky SHA-1
Facebook has set the date: on September 30, the ancient and creaking SHA-1 hashing algorithm will make its tumbril trip and get the chop.
New Computer
Happy New Computer (To me!)
What you need to know about BERserk and Mozilla
The Intel Security Advanced Threat Research Team has discovered a critical signature forgery vulnerability in the Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) cry...
Symantec to Overhaul Its Norton Security Line
Symantec is overhauling its Norton security software, going from nine products to just one as the company turns its attention to smartphones and connected de...
New Facebook scams in 2014
So many Facebook scams in 2014 have been a little worrying even though at first they all seem innocent enough, but these are social scams to lure users in to...
Happy Valentine’s Day
Happy Valentine’s Day
Victim Of Ritual
The “Victim Of Ritual” music video from the new album “Colours In The Dark” by Tarja Turunen is now visible worldwide
Avira starts blocking some browsers and email clients
Since yesterday, some Avira Internet Security users have only been able to use their web browsers if they first disable Avira Web Protection. According to Av...
Chrome 28 with new Blink engine and Rich Notifications
Cross-posted from H-Online:
Happy Birthday America
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What I have, and am busy with
Hey Folks
Firefox 22 enables WebRTC, makes social APIs easier to manage
BetaNews: Mozilla has released Firefox 22.0 FINAL for Windows, Mac and Linux. The update includes some platform-specific improvements — Firefox following dis...
WordPress hardened with XSS, DoS and SSRF fixes
With the second security and maintenance release of WordPress 3.5, the developers of the popular open source blogging software have closed 12 bugs, seven of ...
iPhone Notifications to Google Glass
Google has already released a MyGlass Companion app for Android via the Play Store, and although a corresponding iOS version has yet to manifest itself in t...
Symantec updates Norton 2013 range to v20.4
Symantec has updated its suite of Windows security products with the release of Norton Antivirus 2013 v20.4, Norton Internet Security 2013 v20.4 and Norton 3...
Facebook Virus That Drains Your Bank Accounts: What You Need to Know
This post has been shared originally by Malwarebytes Blog:
Google cuts grace period for vendors of vulnerable software
Google is shortening the amount of time it gives to makers of vulnerable software and web services if there is imminent danger. The Google security team say ...
Google Overhauls Gmail to Take On E-Mail Overload
NYTimes posted: On Wednesday, Google introduced a new in-box design for its e-mail service, Gmail.
DMC And Wayne Static Join Forces To Shoot Video For New Track
Wayne Static shared this in his facebook page:
Iranian Hackers targeting US oil, gas, and electric companies
The Hacker News reported: For all the talk about China and the Syrian Electronic Army, it seems there’s another threat to U.S. cyber interests i.e. Iran. Ser...
Apple closes QuickTime vulnerabilities on Windows
Apple has released a security update for its QuickTime media framework for Windows. Version 7.7.4 of the software closes 12 critical security holes causing m...
Symantec planning to discontinue PC Tools security products
Symantec has stopped selling the security-related products in its PC Tools portfolio, according to an announcement on the company’s web site. Customers using...
Korn on mission to find cure for diabetes
bakersfieldcalifornian.com posted:
Chrome 27 comes with better load speeds and security fixes
The Chrome developers at Google have released version 27 of their browser to the Stable release channel for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and Chrome Frame for In...
Tarja’s new promo photos for Colours In The Dark
New promo photos by Eugenio Mazzinghi for upcoming album Colours In The Dark
Microsoft warns of Facebook-hijacking extensions
Malicious browser extensions are trying to hijack Facebook profiles, according to a warning from Microsoft’s Malware Protection Center. The extensions, first...
Name.com domain registrar hacked
US domain registrar and web hosting service Name.com has fallen victim to a hacker attack. In a recent email, the company informed its customers of an incide...
Slayer star Jeff Hanneman died of alcohol-related liver scarring
[](https://cdn.omidfarhang.net/assets/images/2013/05/hanneman2.jpg)Jeff Hanneman of Slayer performing at Sonisphere Festival, Knebworth in August 2010.
ARTISTdirect Interviews Korn about their forthcoming eleventh studio album
ARTISTdirect sits down with James “Munky” Shaffer, Brian “Head” Welch, Reggie “Fieldy” Arvizu, and Ray Luzier for Korn’s very first interview together about ...
Tarja Turunen’s new album “Colours In The Dark”
We have been waiting for it, Tarja will be releasing a new album August 2013, the new album is called “Colours In The Dark”, She explain the album title:
Internet Explorer 8 0-Day Update CVE-2013-1347
Microsoft has confirmed a bug in Internet Explorer 8, CVE-2013-1347, which exposes user machines to remote code execution.
Taylor Swift needs your support
Taylor is a finalist for the Billboard Milestone Award and you can help her take it home! Vote everyday until May 19th. Oh, and fun fact – you can vote multi...
Korn band members get back together
Head, Munky, JD, Fieldy, and Ray are not only together again on-stage for shows beginning May 15, but Korn is also in the studio recording a new album!
Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail is out, What’s new?
Canonical has released Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail, most likely the last release of Ubuntu that will primarily cater for laptop and desktop users. For Ubunt...
Symantec vs AV-Comparatives, Which one do you trust?
Cross-posted from PCMag SecurityWatch:
Microsoft patches the security update 2823324
Microsoft is making another attempt to close the privilege elevation hole in the NTFS filesystem’s kernel driver for Windows 7 and Server 2008, including R2....
China accounts for 41 percent of global computer attack traffic
A new security report points the finger at China as the main source of malicious computer attacks — and puts the United States in second.
New Java security hole affects desktops and servers
Adam Gowdiak, who has made a name for himself by finding flaws in Java, has reported a new vulnerability. Security issue 61, according to Gowdiak’s tally, af...
Facebook closes cross-site scripting holes
[](https://cdn.omidfarhang.net/assets/images/2013/04/facebook-xss-1.png)Code could be injected through (fake) custom locations
LulzSec Hacker Gets A Year For Sony Hack
A former LulzSec hacker has been jailed for a year for ransacking Sony Pictures Entertainment’s computer systems.
Java 8 release schedule delayed for renewed focus on security
ISC Handler Rob V pointed out a blog post from Oracle’s Mark Reinhold stating that Oracle has “mounted an intense effort to address those issues in a series ...
Boston Marathon Bombing Links May Hide Java-Based Exploits
PCMag: My social media accounts and email inbox are full of links to stories about the horrific incident in Boston earlier this week. I am reading about the ...
Microsoft to plug holes in Windows Defender in Patch Tuesday
Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday on 9 April will be an important spring cleaning day; the company plans to implement nine security bulletins. One of the bulletins d...
Russian malware spies on US ATMs
Security firm Group-IB has identified a malware program called Dump Memory Grabber that can take debit and credit card data from point-of-sale (POS) terminal...
Backdoor Uses Evernote as Command-and-Control Server
With its rich functionality and accessibility, Evernote is a popular note-taking tool for its many users. Unfortunately, it may also provide the perfect cove...
Turkish FlashPlayer? no! It’s malware
I recently came across the file “FlashPlayer.exe” during the course of regular research.
IRS uncorks Dirty Dozen Tax Scams for 2013
The Internal Revenue Service today reminded taxpayers that there are plenty of scam artists and cybercriminals that want your money.
Anonymous-linked groups hack Israeli websites, release personal data
An anti-Israel hacking collective affiliated with Anonymous says it has initiated a widespread cyber attack against the Jewish state, penetrating websites af...
Emma Stone’s twitter hacked
3/22/2013: Emma Stone revealed that she was not behind the ambiguous tweets concerning boyfriend Andrew Garfield and co-star Shailene Woodley that sparked ch...
Apple adds two-step verification option for Apple IDs
A new security option gives Apple’s customers a way to secure their Apple ID password using their phone.
What is the largest number that you know?
Tonight I’ve been talking to my friend about some bad news about Google company and he said “Did you know Googol is a number?”, Well, I did not! so I searche...
And “A2” is passed
Talking of German class, A2 is passed too and I will be heading to B1 in next 2 weeks.
New toys to listen music even better
Hey Folks
Evernote is suspect of a hack, change your password
Cross-posted from Evernote blog:
Stuxnet Missing Link Found, Resolves Some Mysteries Around the Cyberweapon
Cross-posted from WIRED.
Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7 [Download Links]
Internet Explorer 10 is available worldwide in 95 languages for download today.
Doc blocker : Oxford University blocked Google Docs
For about two and a half hours on Monday, students at Oxford University couldn’t access Google Docs after the University’s Computing Services team decided to...
Dropbox Makes PDF Viewing Less Painful, Adds Push Notifications For Shared Folders
Just a few days after adding a new set of features to Dropbox for Teams, the cloud storage company rolled out a new version of its iOS application which intr...
Facebook Got Hacked Last Month and Is Just Telling You Now
Cross-posted from Gizmodo:
New Adobe Vulnerabilities Being Exploited in the Wild
Adobe posted a vulnerability report warning that vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader and Acrobat XI (11.0.1) and earlier versions are being exploited in the wild...
Opera Switches to WebKit and Chromium
After many years of dealing with site compatibility issues, Opera found the solution: it will switch from its proprietary rendering engine (Presto) to WebKit...
Dorkbot worm lurks on Skype and MSN Messenger again
The Dorkbot/Rodpicom worm, which spreads via messaging applications and leads to additional malware infections, is currently doing rounds on Skype and MSN Me...
Rocking while driving
Hey GuysI’ve been playing some random music from my favorite playlist to spend some time and I found these stuff perfect for rocking while driving! here we go!
Google updates all Chrome editions
h-online: Google has updated the Stable, Beta and Developer Channels of the desktop version of its Chrome browser with a number of bug fixes and improvements...
My Life in Music: Hushabye
This is how I go to bed, dreaming before I sleep.
Narilam Worm manipulates databases in Iran
h-Online: Security firm Symantec has discovered a specialised worm called W32.Narilam that can compromise SQL databases. Symantec reports that the malware “s...
My Life in Music: Wake Up
This is how I start my day, everyday:
A day in my life
Ding diding diding ding… Mobile phone’s alarm wake me up, It’s 8 AM again and it’s not either Thursday or Friday otherwise he would let me sleep a bit more, ...
Disappear from world
You know, suicide is one of the stuff that I’ve always given a thumb-up to, but every person in this small world has their own reason to stay away from that,...
Panetta Sounds Alarm on Cyber-War Threat
I just read this and I decided to share with you:
Firefox 16 re-released fixing multiple vulnerabilities
The H-Online: The latest version of Firefox, version 16, has returned to Mozilla’s servers with the release of Firefox 16.0.1 after the discovery of vulnerab...
Mozilla closes numerous critical holes in Firefox 16 [Update]
The h-online: Following the recent Firefox 16 release, Mozilla has now detailed all of the security fixes in the new version of its open source web browser a...
Speak up
Say it even if they (whether it’s a he or she) don’t listen, even if you are afraid or even if you are too shy.
Internet Explorer security hole: Use other browser
TheTelegraph: Internet Explorer users might want to consider upgrading or switching to another browser after a massive security hole was discovered in Window...
Microsoft’s September Patch Tuesday closes important XSS holes
h-online: On its September Patch Tuesday, Microsoft released two security updates that are rated as important and which close holes in Visual Studio Team Fou...
Adobe fixes ColdFusion security vulnerability
h-Online: On the same day as Microsoft’s September Patch Tuesday, Adobe released an update for ColdFusion to close a security hole in its rapid web applicati...
Microsoft to patch Flash hole in Windows 8 shortly
h-online: Microsoft has confirmed that it will deliver a security update for the bundled version of Flash Player used by Internet Explorer 10 (IE10) sooner t...
Google Acquires VirusTotal
This is what we read in latest post from VirusTotal in their blog:
Symantec claims losses from cybercrime exceed $100 billion
h-Online: According to Symantec’s 2012 Norton Cybercrime Report, worldwide, private individuals have suffered approximately $100 billion (more than £69 billi...
1 million Apple Device IDs leaked, claim hackers
According to the AntiSec hacker group, they claim to hold more than 12 million Apple iOS Unique Device IDs, in addition to other personal information from de...
I want, I don’t want
I never could understand those people that afraid everything and everyone, why people don’t live in a normal and easy world? Why take it so hard?
Oracle rushes out patch for critical 0-day Java exploit
TheRegister: In an uncommon break with its thrice-annual security update schedule, Oracle has released a patch for three Java 7 security flaws that have rece...
Download Firefox 15 and Thunderbird 15!
Cross-copied from BetaNews:
Java zero day vulnerability actively used in targeted attacks
ZDNet: Security researchers from FireEye, AlienVault, and DeependResearch have intercepted targeted malware attacks utilizing the latest Java zero day exploi...
Dropbox tests two-factor authentication
h-online: Cloud backup provider Dropbox says it has begun a public test of two-factor authentication for its service. Dropbox had announced it would start of...
Tarja Turunen Performed “Act 1” Live in Rosario
Act 1 is the first Live concert released by Tarja. It was released on CD, DVD and Blu-ray on the 24th of August, 2012.
For the first time in 25 years, Microsoft is changing its logo
In advance of one of the most significant waves of product launches in Microsoft’s history, today they are unveiling a new logo for the company.
Crisis malware infects VMware virtual machines
v3.co.uk: The Windows version of the Crisis Trojan is far more dangerous than first thought, being capable of infecting VMware virtual machine images, Window...
Adobe Flash Player update patches six critical holes
h-Online: Adobe has released the second update for its Flash Player software in a week, this time for six critical vulnerabilities. Four of the issues addres...
Firefox 17 to make add-ons more secure
h-Online: As suggested by some of its developers back in 2010, the Firefox browser will introduce enhanced separation between add-ons and the rest of the bro...
AMD Blog Hacked, Database leaked on Internet
TheHackerNews: A team of Hackers called, “r00tBeer Security Team” today hack into official blog of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) which is a American multinati...
Not so secure: Text messaging on iPhone can be hacked
FirstPost: A hacker Friday revealed a security flaw that he claimed could make Apple’s iPhone particularly vulnerable to text message cheating.
Bogus anti-hacking tool targets Syrian activists
h-online: Syrian activists, journalists and opposition group members are reportedly under attack by malware claiming to be a security tool that will help pro...
PostgreSQL patches XML flaws
h-online: A flaw in the built-in XML functionality of PostgreSQL (CVE-2012-3488) and another in its optional XSLT handling (CVE-2012-3489) have been patched,...
Unfortunately unforgettable sweet memories
I don’t know if I should be happy or sad, when I remember sweet and beautiful memories which were nice at the moment those days but now they are gone and rem...
Google’s New Favicon
Google Operation System Blog: Google has a new favicon that looks like the icon from Google’s mobile search apps for Android and iOS. The same icon was also ...
Microsoft unleashes Windows attack tool
TheRegister.co.uk wrote:
Anonymous hackers identify charity attacker
BBC: Hacking group Anonymous has aided a global search for a cyber-vandal who defaced a charity website.
Chrome 21 arrives with new API for video and audio communication
h-online: With the release of Chrome 21, web applications can now directly access the local system’s built-in camera and microphone. Instead of requiring a s...
LibreOffice vulnerable to multiple buffer overflows
h-online: Three weeks after releasing LibreOffice 3.5.5, The Document Foundation has confirmed that security holes in earlier versions of the open source Lib...
Ladies with few clothes tend to cause a lot of trouble on PCs – and now on Android devices too
Cross-posted from Surelist
Outlook.com Gets 1 Million Users in First 6 Hours
Mashable Wrote:
Cloud service cracks VPN passwords in 24 hours
h-online: At the Black Hat hacker conference in Las Vegas, encryption expert Moxie Marlinspike promised that his CloudCracker web service was able to crack a...
Password leak at meetOne
h-online: A data leak at the meetOne dating site allowed anyone to access private data including the plaintext passwords, email addresses and real names of t...
Trojan "made in Germany" spies in Bahrain
h-Online: Citizenlab has released a detailed analysis of the activities of a trojan in which the experts conclude that the malware is most likely closely rel...
Brit accused of biggest military hack in history
iol scitech: London – A British computer hacker accused by the United States of breaking into top secret military and space agency networks will learn the re...
VirusTotal online scanner adds behavior analysis
h-Online: The developers of the VirusTotal online virus scanner service are currently testing a new sandbox feature to provide users with more meaningful sca...
Symantec CEO steps down, replaced by chairman
Computer World: Security software vendor Symantec said Wednesday that Enrique Salem, its president and chief executive officer, had stepped down with immedia...
Could Romney Really Ban Porn?
TechChurch wrote:
Anonymous hackers cripple Australian gov’t websites
FoxNews: International hacking group Anonymous took at least 10 Australian government websites offline briefly Tuesday in a series of escalating attacks over...
11 million passwords leaked from online gaming platform
h-Online: A file with 11 million password hashes belonging to users of the online games platform Gamigo has been circulated on the internet. According to an ...
Why Google or Facebook Buying Your Favorite Startup
Time Techland wrote:
Urgent security update for TeamViewer
h-online: The TeamViewer developers have released updates for a potential security vulnerability discovered in the remote access tool. The company recommends...
Firefox "new tab" feature tweaked following privacy concerns
h-online: Mozilla has implemented changes to Firefox 14 that address concerns raised by privacy-conscious users over the “new tab” feature in Firefox 13. The...
What are we doing to our planet?
This is a picture that ‘The New York Times’ shared today:
Marissa Mayer and Future Relationship of Yahoo!, Google and Facebook
Eric Jackson in Forbes Wrote:
Security researchers take out botnet responsible for 18 billion spam emails a day
Independent: If you’re a fan of fake Rolex watches and cheap Viagra look away now.
Aguilera: Hacker Stole My "Feeling Of Security"
The Smoking Gun: Christina Aguilera contends that the recent hacking of her e-mail account had stripped her of a “feeling of security” that now “can never be...
Indonesia blocks porn sites during Ramadan
ZDNet: Indonesia’s communications and information ministry has shut down more than one million pornographic Web sites ahead of Islamic holy month of Ramadan ...
Fake Facebook Photo Notifications Contain Malware
Mashable: Sophos’s NakedSecurity blog outlined the threat on Wednesday. The company’s SophosLabs intercepted a “spammed-out email campaign” which was designe...
Spam attack on Dropbox users
H-Online: Spammers are currently sending large volumes of spam to users of cloud storage service provider Dropbox. The H’s associates at heise Security have ...
Madi Malware: Another Trojan Targets Organizations from the Middle East [Updated]
This article is copied from Softpedia:
Firefox, Thunderbird, Panda and more updates
Mozilla Firefox: Mozilla has released a new update for Firefox, Mozilla Firefox 14.0.1, This version comes with Google Secure search by default, flat buttons...
Longtime Google Exec Marissa Mayer Is Yahoo’s New CEO
TechChurch: Marissa Mayer, the technology executive who has worked at Google since the search company’s earliest days, has been appointed CEO of Yahoo.
NVIDIA hackers publish user data
Late last week, NVIDIA confirmed that the database for its forums web site had been broken into by unauthorized third parties, with data from more than 400,0...
‘Botnet’ sends out spam as malware spreads on Android phones: researcher
Malware has been spreading on Android mobile phones that takes control of certain email accounts to create a “botnet” to send out spam, a security researcher...
Fake Skype app on Android is malware
ZDNet Wrote:
Chrome 20 update fixes high-risk security vulnerabilities
Google has published a new update to the stable 20.x branch of Chrome to close a number of security holes in the WebKit-based web browser. Version 20.0.1132....
Android Forums hacked: 1 million user credentials stolen
ZDNet: Phandroid’s AndroidForums.com has been hacked. The database that powers the site was compromised and more than 1 million user account details were sto...
Scarlett Johansson leaked nude photos cost $66,000 for the hacker
Copied from LA-Times:
Third edition of vulnerability spotter Secunia PSI
Version 3 of Personal Software Inspector (PSI), Secunia‘s free program updater, has been released with a much simplified user interface, enabling less techni...
WordPress 3.4 update closes important security hole
The WordPress developers have released version 3.4.1 of their popular open source publishing platform, fixing a number of bugs and closing security holes, on...
Chrome 20 closes 23 security holes
Google has closed a total of 23 vulnerabilities with the release of Chrome 20. Of those vulnerabilities, 14 are rated critical, enabling attackers to execute...
Goodbye Lonesome George
R.I.P. Lonesome George. He was the last of his species.
Update for Windows Update has teething troubles
Microsoft has released an unscheduled, non-patch day update for Windows to update the Windows Update function itself. However, according to reports from read...
Worth Reading: Escape from Adobe’s sandbox
Adobe Reader X runs in a sandbox at a very restricted privilege level. Important system calls are supposed to be handled by a special broker process that wil...
Adobe updates Flash Player 11.3 to fix Firefox crashing problem
Adobe has released an updated version of its proprietary Flash Player 11.3 plugin to address a bug that caused Firefox 13 on Windows to crash for some users....
Critical vulnerabilities closed by Winamp update
With the release of version 5.63 of Winamp, Nullsoft, a division of AOL Music, has eliminated four critical security vulnerabilities in the media player. Thr...
Opera 12 has been released
Norwegian company Opera Software has released Opera 12.00 just a few minutes ago. Opera users who start the browser on their system should see update notific...
1.5 Million Records Compromised In Global Payments Breach
v3.co.uk: Card processing firm Global Payments has provided more detail on the attack on its computer systems earlier this year, warning that the attackers m...
LinkedIn spam, exploits and Zeus: a deadly combination ?
Is this the perfect recipe for a cybercriminal ?:
Microsoft revises its certificate management
The H-Online: In response to the Flame worst-case scenario, Microsoft has now integrated a custom block list feature for its certificate store under Windows....
Critical holes closed in Microsoft’s June Patch Tuesday
The H-Online: Microsoft has released seven security bulletins fixing a total of 27 security holes, 13 of them in Internet Explorer. The rest of the patches a...
Google closes persistent XSS holes in Gmail
The H-online: Google has closed several cross-site scripting (XSS) holes in its Gmail email service – which has more than 350 million active users – that cou...
Does the silence get lonely?
Well I wish there was someone Well I wish there was someone To love me
I don’t want to hear about flowers, I like death and destruction
I can’t stand to let them win, I’m just watching them, And I don’t know what to do, Feeling like a fool inside, Feeling all the hurt… Thought they were my fr...
Sandboxed Flash Player for Firefox: Adobe Flash update closes several critical holes
The H-Online: Adobe has announced the release of an update for Flash Player on Windows, Mac, Linux, Android 3.x and 4.x, and within its own AIR runtime. The ...
Password leaks bigger than first thought
The H-Online: There have still been no official statements on the causes and extent of the recent password leaks at LinkedIn, eHarmony and Last.fm. A credibl...
Millions of Last.fm passwords leaked
The H-Online: A list with several million passwords belonging to users of the music community site Last.fm has been posted on the internet. The site owners h...
LinkedIn passwords in circulation
H-Online: Internet forums are currently circulating a list containing over six million password hashes which allegedly originate from LinkedIn. The passwords...
Microsoft revokes certificates used to sign the Flame trojan
Avira TechBlog Wrote:
Automated Skype calls and Fake Antiviruses
This is an old story back from September, 2011, but since recently I’ve seen users complaining about this, I want to share it again [Credit to NakedSecurity,...
On Stuxnet, Duqu and Flame
F-Secure wrote:
Firefox 13 Final is available for download [Link]
Mozilla Firefox 13 is available for download on Mozilla FTP servers.
This Depression is Great
They told me look at everything positive, so I’m gonna do it: “This Depression is Great!”
FAQ: Flame, the "super spy"
Copied from H-Online: Source
Painting a Picture of W32.Flamer
Symantec Connect: The number of different components in W32.Flamer is difficult to grasp. The threat is a well designed platform including, among other thing...
Google’s reCAPTCHA briefly cracked
H-Online: Hackers developed a script which was able to crack Google’s reCAPTCHA system with a success rate of better than 99 per cent. They presented the res...
AVAST software blocked its services for embargoed countries
Petr Chocholous in response to Iranian users contacting avast saying they are unable to open website or update their antivirus said:
Text message provider to pay out for Android malware
H-Online: UK regulator PhonepayPlus (fomerly known ICSTIS) has imposed a fine of £50,000 on a payment provider used for an Android malware-based fraud and fo...
Flame worm – Iran claims to discover new Stuxnet-like malware
Naked Security wrote:
Facebook and Opera: Facebook Browser Is Imminent
Mashable: Are you ready for a Facebook browser that integrates the social networking behemoth into your online life more than ever? That’s exactly what could...
A technical analysis of Adobe Flash Player CVE-2012-0779 Vulnerability
Microsoft Malware Protection Center wrote:
Yahoo released private certificate with new extension
H-Online: Yahoo! introduced a new “browser”, Axis, last night, both as a standalone application for iPhone and iPad and as a browser extension on Chrome, Fir...
Google releases security update for Chrome 19
H-Online: Google has announced an update to the stable version of Chrome, which brings the browser version to 19.0.1084.52 on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Th...
Sometimes hate is not enough
I don’t know where to begin, Let’s get help from my friends and start by answering them.
Windows XP in update loop
H-Online: Users of Windows XP are reporting more problems with recent automatic updates. Three security updates for .NET Framework 2.0 and 3.5 are at the cen...
Hackers use fake Facebook cancellation emails to deploy malware
H-Online: A new type of phishing strategy, which aims to trick unsuspecting users into installing a trojan by pretending to be an account cancellation reques...
Fake BBC Website Serves Exploits and Work From Home Offers
GFI Wrote: In September, our friends at Sophos wrote about a fake BBC website offering up the “chance” to work from home for predictably large sums of money....
And when you feel like this
No comment, The video and its feeling say it all
PHP 5.4 Remote Exploit PoC in the wild
ISC Diary:
Call of Duty hacker jailed after meatspace burglary
theregister.co.uk wrote:
The Pirate Bay hit by DDoS attack
File-sharing website The Pirate Bay (TPB) has been hit by a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack.
Avira update fixes Service Pack bug
The H-Online: Avira says that it has resolved the problems caused by a Service Pack that was released for its Windows products earlier this week. Users are a...
QuickTime for Windows update plugs security holes
The H-Online: Version 7.7.2 of QuickTime for Windows has been released to address a total of 17 security vulnerabilities in the media player. According to Ap...
RealPlayer update fixes security vulnerabilities
The H-Online: RealNetworks is warning users about multiple security vulnerabilities in its RealPlayer media player application for Windows; the company says ...
Chrome 19 released with tab syncing
The H-Online: Google has announced that Chrome 19 is the new stable version of its open source based web browser. As usual, the browser sees a number of secu...
I don’t understand
A note before starting this post: I don’t mean to catch anyone’s attention with these posts I write, I just want to speak out what’s in my mind and hope some...
Google bringing new smarts to Search with Knowledge Graph
Google’s Knowledge Graph will display summaries of topics when your query is related to one of the 500 million items in Google’s new database of things.
Avira AV update hangs systems
H-Online Says:
Sniffer tool displays other people’s WhatsApp messages
The H-Online: WhatsApp Sniffer is an app able to display messages from other WhatsApp users connected to the same network as the app user. The tool diverts a...
I want to say something
I want to say something but I don’t know what, I want to talk, I want to speak but to no one, I want to express myself but no word is capable of doing that, ...
Microsoft Patch Tuesday more extensive than anticipated
The H-Online: As previously announced, Microsoft has released seven bulletins to close a total of 23 vulnerabilities on its May Patch Tuesday. The total numb...
Excuse me, Graham Cluley
Hi,You may have noticed that part of my blog posts are copied from other source as I name them (and link them) in beginning of my posts, for example “Nake...
PHP patch quick but inadequate
The H-Online: The updates to PHP versions 5.3.12 and 5.4.2 released on Thursday do not fully resolve the vulnerability that was accidentally disclosed on Red...
Adobe Flash Player update closes critical object confusion hole
The H-Online: Adobe has released a security advisory relating to an object confusion vulnerability which allows an attacker to crash the player or take contr...
Fake Google Iranian domain defaced by Algerian Script Kiddies
TheHackerNews: Google got Pwned ? NO Few Algerian Script Kiddies try to spread fake rumors that they Hack and Deface the Giant Search engine “Google Iranian”...
Windows Live is dead, long live Windows Live
Cross-posted from BetaNews: In a blog post on Wednesday, President of Microsoft’s Windows division Steven Sinofsky announced the seven-year old Windows Live ...
Firefox WebSocket bug compromises Tor anonymity
The current versions of the Tor Browser Bundle (TBB) include a bug that makes it possible for information about visited web sites to leak out of the anonymis...
Iran makes its own anti-virus software – would you buy it?
SophosLabs: According to reports, Iran has started making its own anti-virus software.
OONI maps internet censorship on a global scale
The H-Online: Tor developers Arturo Filasto and Jacob Appelbaum have been working on a new tool they call the OONI-probe. OONI stands for Open Observatory of...
Phishers Offer Fake Storage Upgrades
Symantec Connect: Customers of popular email service providers have been a common target for phishers for identity theft purposes. Phishers are constantly de...
Not suicide, just taking life easy
I’m not going jump off from the tower, I’m not going to overdoes any drug, I’m not going to cut my Wrist, I’m not going to drive high speed against a wall wi...
Privacy concerns over popular ShowIP Firefox add-on
Cross-posted from SophosLabs: A popular Firefox add-on appears to have started leaking private information about every website that users visit to a third-pa...
Chrome 18 update closes high-risk security holes
The H-Online: Google has released a new update to the stable 18.x branch of its Chrome web browser to close a number of security holes found in the applicati...
Skype divulges user IP addresses
The H-Online: According to a blog post, a modified version of the Skype VoIP software can be used to easily find out the IP address of any valid Skype user. ...
Mozilla to auto-upgrade Firefox 3.6 users to version 12
H-Online: Soon, users running Firefox 3.6.x will start being automatically upgraded to the current version 12.0 release of the open source web browser. The p...
Warning: Fake Biophilla app on Android is malware
Corss-posted from ZDNet: Summary: Cyber criminals have created a fake Biophilla app for Android that is really just malware in disguise. Your first red flag ...
DropBox 1.4 Released
gHacks: Dropbox has just released a stable update that brings all desktop clients of the file synchronization and hosting service to 1.4. Feature-wise, it is...
PHP 5.4.1 and PHP 5.3.11 released
The H-Online: The PHP developers have released the first update for PHP 5.4, the latest version of their popular scripting language, and an update to PHP 5.3...
Hotmail hacked for $20
The H-Online: The whitec0de.com blog reports that, for $20, a member of a hacker forum offered to crack any Hotmail account within a minute – and that he kep...
No, This is not a love song
Did you ever try hard to reach someone and when you did you find your mouth shut? I did several times and it drive me crazy!
Get ready for exciting changes coming to Firefox 13, 14 and 15
Cross-posted from BetaNews: Following on from the release of Firefox 12 FINAL, Mozilla has updated its developmental branches to versions 13 (Beta), 14 (Auro...
WikiPharmacy? Fake Notifications Spammed Out
Symantec Connect: Symantec is intercepting a resurgence of spam attacks on popular brands. Spam messages that are replicas of the Wikipedia email address con...
Security improvements in Opera 12 beta
The H-Online: A beta of version 12 of the Opera web browser has been released with privacy and security-focused improvements. Code-named “Wahoo”, the Opera 1...
Kaspersky: Mac security is ‘10 years behind Microsoft’
Cnet: Forrester’s CEO isn’t the only one spouting doom and gloom for Apple today.
Online forums hacked and misused on a large scale
The H-Online: Online forums have, for some time, apparently been the target of hackers who inject additional code. However, the attackers aren’t interested i...
Facebook teams up with security vendors
Facebook and security. Is it a marriage that has any legs?
Microsoft Security Essentials 4.0 ready for download
Cnet: Microsoft today made available for download a new release of its free anti-virus/anti-malware program for Windows PCs, Microsoft Security Essentials (M...
Introducing Google Drive… yes, really
Cross-Posted from Official Google Blog: Just like the Loch Ness Monster, you may have heard the rumors about Google Drive. It turns out, one of the two actua...
Fake Discount Cards
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Iran oil terminal suffers malware attack
The BBC is reporting that websites belonging to the Iranian oil ministry and national oil company are offline after suffering a malware infection this weekend.
Firefox and Thunderbird 12 are out, Download now!
Mozilla has released new final versions of Firefox 12 and Thunderbird 12, its open source browser and email messaging tools. Neither update, despite the new ...
Adobe Creative Suite 6 takes to the cloud
Cross-posted from BetaNews.com: Adobe took the wraps off Creative Suite 6 on Monday, introducing the largest release to date of the content-creation platform...
IMG0893.zip – Your photo all over Facebook? Naked? Malware campaign spammed out
SophosLabs is intercepting a spammed-out malware campaign, pretending to be an email about a revealing photo posted online of the recipient.
Ruby 1.9.3 update fixes RubyGems security problem
The H-Security: The Ruby development team has published an update to the 1.9.3 series of its open source programming language to fix a vulnerability found in...
WordPress fixes file upload security problems
The H-Security: The developers of the popular open source blog engine WordPress have released a security update for the software. WordPress 3.3.2 fixes unspe...
Google warns the operators of thousands of hacked web sites
The H-Security: The head of Google's Webspam team, Matt Cutts, announced on Twitter that Google has sent out a message to the webmasters of 20,000 sites i...
Banking System Vulnerability – 3 million bank accounts hacked in Iran [Updated]
As I said in the other post, Iran’s Central Bank has announced that the electronic information of 3 million customers of 10 Iranian banks have been compromis...
Sabpab, new Mac OS X backdoor Trojan horse discovered
SophosLabs: More malware for the Mac OS X platform has been discovered, hot on the heels of the revelation that some 600,000 Macs had been infected in the Fl...
Hacker divulges data on 10 Iranian banks, central bank warns clients [Updated]
An Iranian hacker published the information about some 3 million debit cards of 10 Iranian banks, including codes and passwords.
Malware blocks booting
Anti-virus experts at Trend Micro have discovered ransomware which blocks systems from booting. In contrast to the localised trojans, which are widely spread...
Apple releases Java update with Flashback removal tool
The H-Online: As expected, Apple has released an updated version of the Java implementation for its Mac OS X operating system that includes a removal tool fo...
Android malware poses as Angry Birds Space game
Android malware authors have seized an opportunity to infect unsuspecting smartphone users with the launch of the latest addition to the immensely popular “A...
Security vulnerability in NVIDIA’s proprietary Linux drivers fixed
The H-Online: A new version of NVIDIA’s proprietary UNIX graphics drivers for Linux, Solaris and FreeBSD fixes a security vulnerability (CVE-2012-0946) that ...
Microsoft and Adobe to address critical vulnerabilities on Patch Tuesday
The H-Online: The Tuesday after the Easter weekend, 10 April, is set to be a busy one for system administrators as Microsoft and Adobe have sent out notifica...
Russian AV company claims 600,000 Macs infected by Flashback [Removal Manual]
The H-Online: A Russian AV company, Dr. Web, says it has conducted research to determine the spread of the Flashback trojan on systems running Mac OS X and s...
Google Chrome fixes seven high-risk vulnerabilities
The H-Online: Google has announced updates to the Stable and Beta channels of their Chrome browser, fixing several bugs and twelve security vulnerabilities. ...
MasterCard and Visa payment processor compromised, up to 10 million cards stolen
SophosLabs: Brian Krebs is reporting that MasterCard and Visa are warning member-banks of a payment processor breach that may impact more than 10,000,000 cre...
Google updates OAuth 2.0 Playground
The H-Security: Google has added new features to its OAuth 2.0 Playground, which it launched last November. Developers can now switch to using client-side fl...
Sex Appeal Meter Scam and Execution Hoax Abound on Facebook
Cross posted from GFI, Sunbelt Blog:
Free Stuff on Social Networks Not Free
Symantec Connect: In recent years, scammers have flocked towards social networking sites as they have grown and made it easier to access a large number of po...
"Please do not take down the Sality botnet"
The H-Security: On Tuesday, a user who is known as “lawabidingcitizen” posted an unusual request to the Full Disclosure mailing list, a forum that is mainly ...
Adobe Flash enables auto-updating while patching two critical flaws
SophosLabs: Adobe released Flash Player version 11.2.202.228 for Windows, OS X and Linux today. In my view this is a milestone release as it finally introduc...
Chrome 18 improves graphics performance, closes security holes
Google has released version 18 of Chrome, the company’s own extended version of the open source Chromium web browser. The new Stable channel release, labeled...
I’ve some new toys
Hey Guys!
Report: iOS vulnerability sold for $250,000
The H-Security: Business appears to be booming for those who trade in unpatched (zero-day) security holes: according to a report by Forbes magazine, a US com...
Instagram Sign-Up Page Now Beckons Android Users
Mashable: The day when Android users will first lay hands on the red hot photo-sharing app Instagram just got even closer. Late Saturday, a sign-up page appe...
Pro-China hackers target Tibetan activists with malware
The Register: Pro-China hackers have started spoofing security firm AlienVault’s email address in spam messages in an attempt to infect pro-Tibetan recipient...
Firefox switching to encrypted Google search
The H-Online: An inconspicuous “s” added to various lines of code in its latest nightly builds means that future versions of Firefox will send all search qu...
Embarrassing security failure at PayPal
The H-Security: Until just a few days ago, web sites belonging to the world’s largest online payment service contained a security vulnerability in a key comp...
Chrome 17 update fixes high-risk vulnerabilities
The H-Security: Google has released version 17.0.963.83 of its Chrome web browser, a maintenance update that fixes issues with Flash games and closes several...
New Dr Who girl Jenna-Louise Coleman’s name exploited by Twitter sex video scammers
SophosLabs: Jenna-Louise Coleman has been unveiled as the new “Doctor Who” companion, joining the BBC TV time traveller in his TARDIS later this year.
‘Fileless’ malware installs into RAM
Exploit found in Russian adware invades process, doesn’t install files
Apple’s new iPad is great, but it’s not free, nor called iPad 3
SophosLabs: Only hours after the launch of Apple’s newest iPad we are beginning to see spammers trying to use the excitement over its release to ensnare inno...
Firefox, Thunderbird and SeaMonkey updates fix critical vulnerabilities
The H-Online: In the latest round of updates of its suite of internet applications, Mozilla has detailed the security fixes in the Firefox 11 browser, Thunde...
Pidgin IM client 2.10.2 closes DoS holes
The H-Online: Version 2.10.2 of the open source Pidgin instant messaging program has been released. According to its developers, the maintenance and security...
Digital Playground porn passwords exposed by hackers
SophosLabs: A group of hackers are claiming to have stolen the details of more than 70,000 users of the Digital Playground porn website.
Nude Heather Morris pictures – hacker blamed
SophosLabs: Heather Morris, famous for playing cheerleader Brittany in the popular “Glee” TV show, is said to be the latest celebrity to have had nude photos...
Scam for FC Barcelona Fans
Symantec Connect: Phishers often choose baits with the motive of targeting a large audience. Using popular celebrities as bait is a good example. Phishers un...
Critical vulnerabilities in XnView fixed
The H-Online: Version 1.98.8 of the popular XnView image viewer and converter has been released to close security holes in the software. According to an advi...
Safari update closes security holes
Apple has released version 5.1.4 of its Safari web browser for Windows and Mac OS X. According to the company, the maintenance and security update addresses ...
Firefox 11 release postponed due to security issues [Updated]
H-Online: The Firefox team has announced that they are postponing the release of Firefox 11, originally planned for today, because of a security report which...
Phishers Dislike Facebook Timeline
Symantec Connect: Phishers regularly introduce new types of fake applications with the motive of improving their chance to harvest user credentials. In Febru...
Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday will close a critical Windows vulnerability
The H-Security: Next week’s Patch Tuesday sees Microsoft planning to publish a total of six bulletins, including one that addresses a critical vulnerability ...
Facebook Scam: OMG – I just hate RIHANNA after watching this video
SophosLabs: Messages are spreading between Facebook users, claiming that members of the social network have lost all respect for popular songstress Rihanna a...
This time, the bad guys want your tax accountant
avast: While taxpayers are the regular target of springtime malware schemes, this year the bad guys are aiming for the accountants.
Google is globally switching its search to HTTPS by default
The H-Online: Google has announced on its Inside Search blog that it is enabling SSL encryption by default on its global search pages. The US site Google.com...
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Dropbox Abused by Spammers
Symantec Connect: Recently we noticed spammers abusing Dropbox, a popular cloud-based, file-hosting and synchronization tool, to spread spam.
Google opens a pharmacy? It’s spam of the day
SophosLabs: Is Google really extending its online empire, and opening an online pharmacy?
Gout, Hypothyroid+, High BP and Bad Liver
Today morning I had a meeting with my doctor, giving him test results I had taken last week. Good and bad news here.
Panda Security cleans up defaced websites after LulzSec arrest revenge attack
SophosLabs/NakedSecurity: With alleged Anonymous hackers belonging to the LulzSec group arrested and charged yesterday, and the startling relevation that pro...
Chrome security update and researchers’ bonuses
The H-Security: Google has released a new stable version of its Chrome browser. The update fixes seventeen high severity vulnerabilities and updates the bund...
New automated sandbox for Android malware
ISC Diary: One of the things that I’ve been working on lately is building an automated malware analysis environment to handle Android malware similar to the ...
Hackers had ‘full functional control’ of Nasa computers
BBC: Hackers gained “full functional control” of key Nasa computers in 2011, the agency’s inspector general has told US lawmakers.
New privacy guidelines for mobile app developers
SophosLabs: This week has seen the annual Mobile World Congress event. For 2012, the giants of the mobile tech world are back in Barcelona to captivate the i...
Opfake scam targets iPhone users
Symantec Connect:
Phishing via NFC
At the RSA Conference 2012, McAfee’s Chief Technology Officer, Stuart McClure, and several of his colleagues, have demonstrated a whole range of different at...
Android smartphones infected via drive-by exploit
At the RSA Conference 2012, former McAfee executives George Kurtz and Dmitri Alperovitch have presented a Remote Access Tool (RAT) that infects Android smart...
Free iPad 3? It doesn’t exist! Beware of scams
It is widely anticipated that Apple will announce a new version of its iPad tablet computer in San Francisco on March 7th.
HTTPS Everywhere reaches 2.0, comes to Chrome as beta
H-Online: Version 2.0 of the HTTPS Everywhere browser extension has been released. Where possible, the add-on automatically redirects users to more secure HT...
Pwn2Own: Google offers $1M in Chrome exploit rewards
Google is to offer up to a million dollars in rewards for Chrome exploits at the CanSecWest conference. Previously, Google has sponsored the Pwn2Own competit...
Oops! Selena and Bieber’s hidden camera bedroom video Facebook scam
Oops indeed. At least if you were one of the Facebook users who believed that a hidden camera video had leaked onto the net of Justin Bieber sharing some int...
Beatles for Sale? It’s spam of the day
I’ve owned up to some of the great loves of my life in the past.
Nothing last forever, but still I miss you
Finally first level of my German class at Goethe-Institut finished (Read here when it begin) and I’m so sad, I will miss all my great classmate and teacher, ...
Google Drive Will Support Third Party Apps
Google Operation System Blog: Back in November 2010, a comment from the Google Docs source code revealed some new features that will be available: third part...
Twilight author’s official website attacked
Sunbelt: Twilight fans who normally frequent the official website of Stephenie Meyer, infamous writer of the said book and saga, may have found their systems...
YouPorn passwords available for download, thousands of users exposed [Updated]
SophosLabs: Want a free password for one of the world’s most popular adult websites?
Fake AICPA Mail Serves Blackholes and Rootkits
Sunbelt: Be wary of emails claiming to be from AICPA – as per their alert here, these are not real and any mention of “unlawful tax return fraud” is just a b...
Масленица Началась, And So Is Spam!
Symantec Connect: Maslenitsa (Маслница) is a religious holiday celebrated in Russia and Ukraine during the last week before Lent, i.e. the seventh week befor...
Ex-girlfriend sex videos, browser plugins and Facebook survey scams
SophosLabs: Scammers are up to their old tricks on Facebook, tricking users into visiting revenue-generating survey scam websites by appearing to offer sex v...
Chrome may get a password generator
The H-Online: Google’s solution for the problem of getting better passwords on the net – a combination of browser sign-in andOpenID – will take some time to ...
Google also bypassed cookie settings in Internet Explorer
H-Online.com: Following the revelation that Google and other online marketing companies have been bypassing the mechanism for blocking third-party cookies in...
LibreOffice Update
from Asa Dotzler: Firefox and more
VLC 2.0.0 “Twoflower” Final Released
WebTrickz: VideoLAN has finally released the much awaited 2.0 version of “VLC Media Player”, the best and most popular media player for Windows, Mac OS X and...
Firefox and Thunderbird updates to 10.0.2, Vulnerability in libpng
The H-Online: The Mozilla Project has released updates to Firefox and Thunderbird. According to the release notes, the version 10.0.2 updates to the open sou...
Google found evading Safari’s privacy controls
The H-Online: Google and other advertising companies have been found to be deliberately evading the privacy controls of Apple’s Safari browser. The evasion w...
Nessus 5.0 accelerates vulnerability scanning
The H-Online: Tenable has released version 5.0 of Nessus, its popular vulnerability scanner. The new version of the tool includes an updated installation wiz...
Malware to Mourn Whitney Houston
Symantec: The world is mourning the loss of another legendary pop singer also known as the queen of pop – Whitney Houston. Spammers are paying homage to the ...
Second passport for South Africans? It’s spam of the day
SophosLabs: Here’s a spam message I received today:
Apple previews OS X 10.8 with Gatekeeper
The H-Online: A developer preview of Mac OS X 10.8 is now available to registered Mac developers after Apple announced the new version, named Mountain Lion, ...
Over 90% of Facebook users hate having photos of them posted without approval
SophosLabs: Facebook users overwhelmingly agree that it’s rude to post photos or videos of them without asking permission first. Some even think it should be...
Flash Player update plugs exploited hole
H-Online: Adobe has released updates for Flash Player closing seven holes in the application. Six of the holes can be exploited to allow an attacker to infec...
LibreOffice, Really?! Really?!
I’ve been reading from Mozilla Blog and I liked it and agree with that, so I share it with you:
Java SE updates fix critical security holes
The H-Online: Oracle has fixed 14 security holes in the Java Standard Edition (Java SE) with a critical patch update. The vulnerabilities allow attackers to ...
Warning: Whitney Houston autopsy video links on Facebook aren’t what they seem
SophosLabs: The death of pop superstar Whitney Houston made headlines around the world this weekend, and it didn’t take long for fraudsters and cybercriminal...
Chinese hackers had free rein at Nortel
The H-Online: According to a report, hackers, allegedly from China, had access to telecoms equipment manufacturer Nortel‘s IT systems over a period of severa...
Twitter enables HTTPS for all signed-in users
The H-Online: Twitter has announced that it has now enabled HTTPS by default for all users signed into the micro-blogging service. By using HTTPS, all user i...
iPhone 5 tester SMS text scam hits cellphone users
SophosLabs: Scammers don’t just lure you into visiting their websites via email, Facebook and Twitter – you can be targeted on your mobile phone too.
Shockwave Player critical holes closed
The H-Online: Adobe has updated Shockwave Player on Windows and Mac OS X to version 11.6.4.634 after identifying nine critical vulnerabilities. The problems ...
350,000 users exposed by hacking porn mavens Brazzers
SophosLabs: A hacker, identified as a 17-year-old based in Morocco, claims to have stolen the personal information of 350,000 users from hardcore porn mavens...
Beware of spam this Valentine’s Day
SophosLabs: It’s Valentine’s Day tomorrow and the spammers are out in force to make the most of unwitting shoppers on the international day of love.
New CAPTCHA method or just another likejacking scam?
Sorin Mustaca wrote at Avira TechBlog:
Opera 12 supports Mozilla’s "Do Not Track" header
The H-Online: Opera has published a development snapshot of version 12 of its web browser that adds support for Mozilla’s “Do Not Track” (DNT) header. Code-n...
Reddit Bans Sexual Content Relating to Minors
Mashable: Reddit, known for its freewheeling approach to content management, instituted a new rule over the weekend that banned suggestive or sexual content ...
Metropolitan Police malware warning issued – beware the ransomware attack!
SophosLabs: ComputerWorld today reports that the UK’s Metropolitan Police has warned Windows users of a malware attack that poses as a message from the compu...
Facebook Hoax: Facebook will end on March 15th 2012
SophosLabs: Have you seen the news? Maybe your friends have shared it with you.
Mozilla closes critical security hole in Firefox, Thunderbird and SeaMonkey
The H-Online: Mozilla has released Firefox 10.0.1, Firefox ESR 10.0.1, Thunderbird 10.0.1, Thunderbird ESR 10.0.1 and SeaMonkey 2.7.1 to fix a single critica...
"NASA Own3d Again" – NASA Database Leaked by r00tw0rm
The Hacker News:
Microsoft Store India got hacked in India!
The Hacker News:
Microsoft to send users 4 critical patches on Valentine’s Day
The Register: Microsoft plans to publish nine updates next Tuesday – four of which are critical – as part of a Valentine’s Day edition of its Patch Tuesday u...
Hacker claims to have compromised Intel
The Inquirer: A Hacker using the pseudonyms ‘Weedgrower’ or ‘X-pOSed’ claims that he has compromised Intel and obtained sensitive data.
CIA website brought down – were Anonymous attackers responsible?
SophosLabs: The CIA’s website was brought down for some hours last night by what appears to have been an internet distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.
Dutch ISP KPN hacked, credentials and personal information leaked
SophosLabs: One of the largest ISPs in The Netherlands has shut down its email services after hackers posted usernames, passwords, phone numbers, addresses a...
Is Waledac spam dirtying the Russian 2012 elections?
Symantec Connect: Recently there have been several reports about the re-emergence of a botnet variant (Kelihos), which Symantec detects as W32.Waledac.C. The...
Mozilla Firefox 10.0.1 Update About To Be Released
gHacks: Mozilla, developers of the popular Firefox web browser, have just released an update for the browser’s stable branch that moves the version to 10.0.1...
Boston Police hits back at Anonymous with sarcasm
SophosLabs: Is it possible to fight Anonymous?
No further updates for Debian 5.0 Lenny
The H-Online: The Debian developers have pointed out, in an announcement on the debian-announce mailing list, that – three years after it was released –Debia...
63 Vulnerabilities on United Nation Website Exposed Online
The Hacker News: Latest Notification in The Hacker News Vault by a Hacker named “Xenu (Casi)” from r00tw0rm Team that There are 63 Blind SQL injection Vulner...
Google: No, We’re Not Launching Retail Stores Yet
Mashable: Google planned to open its first-ever public store at its European headquarters in Dublin, if you believed a rumor reported by Bloomberg. But accor...
Love-Seekers Beware: Online Dating Fraud Rose 150% Last Year
Mashable: Lonely hearts seeking love this Valentine’s Day, be wary. Online dating fraud rose by 150% percent in 2011 as scammers and hucksters turned up the ...
LinkedIn Hits 150 Million Members
Mashable: LinkedIn on Thursday announced it has 150 million members in its network, a 20 million increase over November.
Is Digital Pearl Harbor THE most tasteless term in IT security?
SophosLabs: Can hackers really cause as much bloodshed as 353 Imperial Japanese Navy fighters, bombers and torpedo planes launched from six aircraft carriers...
Iran increasingly controls its Internet [Update 6]
Washington Post wrote:
Foxconn hacked by Swagg Security
The H-Online: Hackers operating under the name Swagg Security have said they were responsible for breaching the security of Chinese electronics manufacturer ...
A Valentine’s Day Sweepstakes: Win a Pink SONY VAIO Y
Windows Experience Blog wrote:
Russian Spammers Eye World Content Show
Symantec Connect: Television channels across the world are set to be at the 14th International Exhibition and Forum, World Content Show, held Feb 7- 9, 2012,...
Chrome Updates for Faster Browsing and Increased Security
LifeHacker: Google is releasing a major update to Chrome today that will make browsing the web seem faster and also add security protections.
OneNote Mobile for Android is now available worldwide
For all of you who’ve been asking (and patiently waiting) for a version of OneNote for your Android phones, we have great news: OneNote Mobile for Android is...
Anonymous Hacks Syrian President’s Email. The Password: 12345
Mashable: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has been under fire from world leaders to step down this week. He’s also under fire from hacktivist group Anonymou...
Yahoo Chairman Steps Down
Mashable: Yahoo‘s chairman of the board, Roy Bostock, is leaving the company. Bostock has been chairman since 2008.
Hackers fail to extort $50,000 from Symantec, as pcAnywhere source code is published
SophosLabs: Symantec has confirmed that a file made available on the internet for anyone to download, does contain the source code for an old version of its ...
Phishers Bank on Tax Season
Sunbelt: With the U.S. currently in tax season, online criminals have, once again, sought to take advantage of this. Robert Stetson, one of Sunbelt’s malware...
Satellite phone encryption cracked
H-Online: Researchers at Ruhr-Universität Bochum in Germany have announced that they have cracked the A5-GMR-1 and A5-GMR-2 encryption algorithms used in sat...
Attackers taking aim at retail and food chains
v3.co.uk: The uniform infrastructure and predictable behaviors are making corporate retail and restaurant chains the choice targets for cybercriminals.
Introducing Chrome for Android
Google Chrome Wrote:
Adobe releases beta version of sandboxed Flash for Firefox
The H-Online: Adobe has released a public beta of a sandboxed version of its Flash plugin for Firefox in an effort to improve its security. The new “Protecte...
RealPlayer update closes critical holes
The H-Online: RealNetworks has released an update to RealPlayer to close a number of holes in its media player application. Version 15.02.71 of RealPlayer ad...
Google plans to turn off online checks for SSL certificate validity
The H-Online: Google plans to turn off online checks for SSL certificate validity in its Chrome browser soon, according to a blog post by Adam Langley, the d...
A response to all of the your complains
Hey People!
Malware automatically uploading stolen data to the File sharing sites
The Hacker News: Roland Dela Paz, a threat response engineer with Trend Micro have discovered a piece of malicious software that automatically uploads its st...
Joomla! updates close information disclosure holes
The H-Online: Versions 1.7.5 and 2.5.1 of the open source Joomla! content management system (CMS) have been released to address two information disclosure vu...
USA to equip military, government officials with Androids
SophosLabs: The United States, which currently forbids government workers or soldiers to use smartphones to send classified messages, is preparing a modified...
Google Launches ‘Solve for X,’ Think Tank for Fixing Global Problems
Mashable: Google just debuted a project dedicated to attacking some of the biggest problems facing civilization, such as global warming, and proposing “radic...
German government makes recommendations for secure Windows PCs
The H-Online: The German Federal Office of Information Security (BSI (German), BSI English) has compiled security recommendations for Windows PCs that will p...
Goodbye BTJunkie
gHacks: Users of the popular Bittorrent indexing website BTJunkie who try to access the site’s content in a web browser are not seeing the usual site layout,...
US vs Rest of the World
Really why?
US attacks Iran and Saudi Arabia? Malware spreads via Facebook status updates
SophosLabs: Beware of malware lurking on news websites claiming to containing breaking news stories.
Skype 5.8 For Windows Brings Full HD Video Calls, Facebook Integration
Mashable: Skype for Windows version 5.8 is out, bringing several interesting features, including full HD video-calling, group screen sharing and Facebook int...
MSUpdate Trojan attacked companies in the defense sector
The H-Security: Unknown attackers have tried to use an invitation to a prestigious conference to inject a Trojan into companies in the defense sector. The se...
Critical PHP vulnerability being fixed
The H-Security: The PHP developers are working to fix a critical security vulnerability in PHP that they introduced with a recent security patch. The current...
Yet another Facebook Hoax: ‘New Way Gangs Steal, Rape and Kidnap Girls’
SophosLabs: Facebook users are innocently sharing advice with their online friends about how women can avoid being kidnapped and raped, not realizing that th...
Mozilla closes critical holes in Firefox, Thunderbird and SeaMonkey
The H-Security: Following the release of new versions of its open source Firefox web browser, Thunderbird email client and SeaMonkey suite, Mozilla has detai...
Facebook IPO comes with a health warning
SophosLabs: Facebook’s IPO is the most hyped initial public offering in years, with much speculation about just how many billions of dollars the social netwo...
Apple releases Mac OS X 10.7.3
The H-Security: Apple has released Mac OS X 10.7.3 and, for Mac OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard users who have yet to upgrade to Lion, Security Update 2012-001; the...
Facebook Spam: Police officer does good deed before he dies moments later
Have you seen this in your or your friends wall? or maybe in a page you “Like”?</p> That's another spam link sp...
Megaupload, up again? no
GFI: You’re probably aware that Megaupload has wandered into what can only be described as a bit of a pickle, assuming said pickle is roughly the size of ...
Facebook Scam: Free Amazon.com gift card promotion
SophosLabs: Gift card scams are a common sight on Facebook, and this weekend it has been the turn of Amazon.com to be the brand used by cybercriminals as ...
More Facebook scam links/videos you want to avoid
Recently I'm seeing more facebook scams which claim to be very hot videos, but they are nothing but scam, here is 2 samples:</p> ...
Facebook Scam: See who views your profile!
Earlier today we have seen a new Facebook clickjacking scam which spreads quite fast.</p> I KNOW WHEN YOU LOOK AT MY PROFILE USING...
You dislike it too: Sore Throat [Part 2]
Part 1: https://omidfarhang.com/2012/01/you-dislike-it-too-sore-throat.html</p> Part2:As I told you in my other post, I'm dealing with a ...
LA Time: Dropbox inventor determined to build the next Apple or Google
Drew Houston's wildly popular service allows people to access the latest version of all their digital stuff on any device no matter where they are. Every ...
Hotmail phishing: Don’t send us the wrong password or we’ll suspend your account!
</p> SophosLabs: Have you been told to verify your Hotmail account? Did you receive a message saying that Hotmail's email s...
You dislike it too: Sore Throat
I bet you dislike it when your throat hurts, when you have that damned feeling in your skin, when your nose become a useless meat on your face, when you b...
Pink Facebook? Red or black Facebook?
Pink Facebook? Red or black Facebook?</p> No, it's a scam you want to avoid. Share the knowledge with your friends! ...
Chrome 17 enters beta, improves speed and security
H-Security: Version 17 of Chrome has been released into the WebKit-based browser's Beta channel. Its developers say that the new Chrome...
The fundamental cause of trouble in the world
The fundamental cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. — Bertrand Russell
Feeling good, abnormally
Is not it great when you feel happy without any reason? When nothing happened and you smile…Yeah, I don’t know why but I’m feeling that way, My life is not i...
Internet Explorer to upgrade automatically, unless you say no
SophosLabs: Microsoft's Ryan Gavin announced a new strategy to keep the web safe… Keep your Internet Explorer up to date. ...
Adobe closes Acrobat and Reader security holes
The H-Online: The first patches for the zero-day flaw in Adobe's Acrobat and Reader applications, which the company confirmed was being...
Visa looks into Eastern European security breach
</p> SophosLabs: Visa is investigating a potential security breach that may have compromised payment cards of Eastern Europ...
One is bad and everyone else good or its likewise?
There are so many groups of people in world, we all know that, So many different group and kind of people, we can group them with different factors, with ...
Come join my forum
Hi Folks!</p> I would like to invite you to join my forum, its a small forum for now but by the time it will get better, a link to my for...
Damn, the only thing I did not need happened
Oh no! the only thing I did not need happened, my laptop passed away, send me your good wishes! I need to go look if it worth it to repair or better I loo...
I can always say: ‘It’s gonna be better tomorrow’
Hey, I’m feeling tired. My time, is gone today. You flirt with suicide. Sometimes, that’s ok. Do what others say. I’m here, standing hollow. Falling away fro...
Keep your Facebook friends close and your antivirus closer
Microsoft Malware Protection Center: Facebook malware attacks are not new. Scams spreading via status updates have been around for a long time, but in rec...
I realized: Some of the my thoughts regarding life
I’m almost 23 years old and I’m not that old that to say much about life and teach you how to live, and maybe I’m wrong in many stuff, so here I write my tho...
Stop Censorship: Help us stop the Internet Blacklist Legislation
Protect the Internet Help us stop the Internet Blacklist Legislation Mozilla: On November 16th,...
No one can see
…Und der Haifisch, der hat Tränen und die laufen vom Gesicht; doch der Haifisch lebt im Wasser – so die Tränen sieht man nicht… _ _ …And the shark, that has ...
Finally, Goethe!
Hey Folks!
Today’s Tip: Smile Always
Today’s Tip:
I’ve been bored
I’ve been bored today and playing random videos and this one made me smile, so I want to share with you 🙂 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BhMD_k35gE Have a g...
Persistent XSS Vulnerability in White House Website
The Hacker News: Alexander Fuchs, A German Security Researcher Discover Persistent XSS Vulnerability in Official website of White House...
Forward button to become optional in Firefox
mozillalinks.org: Do you need the forward button? Most likely yes, but it is rarely used compared to the back button, which is the sing...
Internet Explorer’s Share of Web Traffic Drops Below 50%
</p> Mashable: Internet Explorer can no longer claim more than half of the web’s traffic, as of October, ending more than a...
Google Releases Official Google+ Notification Extension For Chrome
gHacks.net: If you are a heavy user of Google’s Google+ social networking product you are probably keeping the site running in a tab al...
Duqu exploits previously unknown vulnerability in Windows kernel
The H-Online Security: Microsoft has confirmed a report from Budapest-based Laboratory of Cryptography and System Security (CrySyS), wh...
Facebook Scam: Girl killed herself on Halloween
SophosLabs: Scammers have put a new spin on an old Facebook scam, claiming that a girl killed herself on Halloween after her father posted a message on he...
Happy Birthday Lady Liberty!
I wish Lady Liberty a Happy 125th Birthday today!
MyBB downloads were infected
The H-Security: In a blog posting, the MyBB development team has confirmed that the download package for version 1.6.4 of MyBB had been...
Hoax: The Pink Profile Pic Facebook virus hoax
SophosLabs: Have you noticed the profile pics of some of your Facebook friends have acquired a pink tinge?</p> Rumours have...
The continuation of dangerous rogue ads on Bing (and Yahoo)
GFI Labs Blog: We've noted this before, but Microsoft needs to get a handle on ad placements on Bing. Ok, so Bing isn't the most widely used search engine...
Duqu, Son of Stuxnet?
Schneier on Security: A newly discovered piece of malware, Duqu, seems to be a precursor to the next Stuxne...
Twitter Malware Attack: Photos of Dead Gaddafi
Mashable: As reports of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s death circulate on the Internet, so is a gruesome cellphone photo of wha...
Happy feelings
Hey! my friends!
Blackhole Exploit Targeting Steve’s Death
Symantec: The sad news making the rounds these days is the death of Steve Jobs, Apple Co-founder and former CEO. His death has been a terrible loss to bot...
Eric Schmidt on Steve Jobs: "He was always ahead of me"
Jobs and Schmidt connect at the introduction of the iPhone, 2007 busin...
Facebook Scam: In memory of Steve, a company is giving out 50 ipads tonight
“In memory of Steve, a company is giving out 50 ipads tonight…” is another Facebook scam you want to avoid.</p> More si...
Hoax: Facebook Gold membership for $9.99
SophosLabs: A hoax claiming that Facebook is planning to start charging users continues to spread across the social network, and has no...
Mac OS X Trojan hides behind malicious PDF disguise
SophosLabs: A fascinating new example of Mac malware has been discovered, that appears to be adopting an old Windows-style disguise to fool users into run...
Facebook to Launch “Major” Profile Redesign at f8
Personally I've a feeling facebook is learning too much from Google Plus and its becoming too Google Plus-ish!, As we see they have cre...
Hacker Rattles Security Circles: 21 Years Old Iranian
The building housing the Dutch company DigiNotar, which issues digital Web site certificates an...
One in four Windows 7 PC run out of date anti-malware
MSDN: One of the things we talk quite a bit about with Windows 8 is making sure Windows is a safe, secure, and reliable computing environment. We have alw...
Happy Birthday Avira FreeAV!
Happy birthday Avira FreeAV! Avira free antivirus solution protecting more than 100 million customers worldwide celebrates its 12th bir...
Iranian block on Tor traffic quickly foiled
The H-Security: The online privacy and security service Tor was blocked by the Iranian government late evening (local time) 13 Septembe...
uTorrent server delivered malware for two hours on Tuesday
The H-Security: The BitTorrent company has confirmed that its uTorrent servers were hacked on Tuesday 13 September and, for almost two ...
Adobe closes 14 holes in Reader and Acrobat
The H-Security: Adobe has released new versions of Reader and Acrobat to close several critical security holes. Versions 10.x, 9.x and ...
Microsoft closes holes in Windows and Office
The H-Security: Microsoft has released two updates for Windows and three for Office to close various security holes. All five updates h...
GlobalSign gives itself clean bill of health after Iranian hacker’s braggadocio
SophosLabs: Following the widely-publicised disgrace of Dutch digital certificate issuer DigiNotar, a person calling himself ComodoHack...
Yes, Microsoft Did Change The World More Than Apple
Business Insider: A new poll in France says 7 out of 10 people think Microsoft did more to change the world than Apple. We think we wou...
Pink claims her Facebook page was ‘hacked’
SophosLabs: Pop singer Pink has posted an angry message to hackers, who she claims stole photographs from her Facebook page.But was Pin...
ComodoHacker responsible for DigiNotar Attack
TheHackerNews.com: The hacker warns the Internet community that he has access to 4 other high-profile CAs, among them being GlobalSign,...
German Censors Approve New Action Game
rockpapershotgun.com: Are you a German teenager? Then do we have some good news for you! After a short seventeen year-long wai...
Happy third birthday, Chrome!
Google Chrome Blog: It’s that time of the year again for the Chrome team, when we pause on our anniversary to reflect on the amazing life and times of the...
Wikileaks website targeted by hackers
TechSpot: Wikileaks found itself the victim of a cyberattack on Tuesday, shortly after the release of thousands of US State Department ...
iPhone 5 giveaways on Facebook – a scam or what?
SophosLabs: Even if it hasn't been officially announced yet, and certainly isn't available to the general public (unless an Apple emplo...
Facebook to launch music service on September 22
TechSpot: Facebook plans to launch a music service on September 22, which happens to coincide with the company’s F8 conference. The new...
Call of Duty: MW3 To Use Steamworks
</p> rockpapershotgun.com</b>: This just came in from Valve: “The PC version of the product will be pow...
Mail.ru protects e-mail users with WOT reputation data
Web of Trust (WOT), the world’s leading website reputation rating service, and Mail.ru Group, Russia’s largest Internet company, have p...
Woman sues after firm tracking stolen laptop records nude video chats
SophosLabs: Imagine the scene. You buy a second-hand laptop using it to, among other things, have secret sexy video chats ...
Julianne Hough leaked photos published after phone hack
SophosLabs: Julianne Hough is famous in the United States not just for being an actress and country music singer, and dating “Ame...
kernel.org compromised
Read it yourself…</p> ———- Forwarded message ———- ...
An update on attempted man-in-the-middle attacks
Google: Today we received reports of attempted SSL man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks against Google users, whereby someone tried to get ...
Panda Cloud Antivirus makes firewall social
BetaNews.com: Panda Security has released Panda Cloud Antivirus 1.9.1 Beta, a preview of its forthcoming 2.0 release. The beta sees Pan...
Blogger’s fresh new look
Blogger Buzz: As you may have heard, things are starting to look a little different across many Google products—and today, Blogger is t...
Using Gmail, Calendar and Docs without an Internet connection
Gmail Blog: The great thing about web apps is that you can access all of your information on the go, and we’ve introduced ways to use G...
I want / Ich Will !
I think being well known all over the world is not everything, sometimes I wish fewer people know but that smart group of people that know me, trust me, beli...
Firefox, Thunderbird and SeaMoney blacklist bad DigiNotar SSL certificates
</p> Mozilla Security Blog: Mozilla just released an update to Firefox for Desktop, Thunderbird and SeaMonkey. Updates are ...
Create PDF files on your iPhone and iPad now
Acrobat Blog: We are excited to announce that Adobe CreatePDF application is now available on iOS. With this, Adobe brings rich, high-fidelity and Acrobat...
Hacker steals user data from Nokia developer forum
</p> H-Online: A vulnerability in its forum software has been exploited by a hacker to compromise mobile phone mak...
Screenshots of Chinese hacking tool
Schneier on Security: It's hard to know how serious this really is: The screenshots appear as B-roll footage in the...
New worm targeting weak passwords on Remote Desktop connections (port 3389)
Microsoft Malware Protection Center: We've had reports of a new worm in the wild and that generates increased RDP traffic for our users on port 3389. Alth...
Strings of my mind
I posted this without spell-check or grammar check, without review etc, just think and write and post:</p> I think its not just me that s...
Start of Avira 12 Betatest!
Start of AV 12 Betatest!It starts from today and ends on 29th of September 2011. Finally after a long time Avira ...
Facebook Makes a Move Toward Security
Sunbelt: Facebook recently published a guide for it's users on how to secure their online accounts from anything that threatens one's F...
phpMyAdmin updates close XSS hole
H-Online: The phpMyAdmin developers have announced the release of versions 3.4.4 and 3.3.10.4 of their open source database administrat...
Jobs opportunities for Apple scammers?
SophosLabs: Steve Jobs has now done what many of us thought would happen sooner or later – stepped off the very prestigious CEO p...
Java 6 Update 27 released
Java™ SE 6 Update 27The full internal version number for this update release is 1.6.0_27-b07 (where “b” means “build&...
Microsoft To Improve File Management Processes In Windows 8
Windows 8 News Blog: The recently created Building Windows 8 blog seems to be up in full swing, with new articles about the upcoming operating system...
Restricting access to net resources for "good reasons"
This article is originally posted at Norman Security Blog, Credit to my friend ‘Pondus' for sharing.</p> Introduction ...
German Federal Office for Information Security warns of hacked online shops
H-Online: The German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) is warning of online shops which infect users with malicious softwa...
Update: Google Buys Motorola
Google Operating System Blog: Google found a way to solve the problem of Android patents and it's only three times more expensive than ...
Mozilla Plans To Hide Firefox Version
gHacks: One “by-product” of the rapid release cycle of the Firefox web browser is the version number increase that goes along with ever...
Firefox 6 Released Early
Mashable: Firefox 6 isn’t scheduled to be released until Tuesday, but Mozilla has uploaded installation files to a FTP server for those...
Google buys Motorola Mobility, Android’s top supporter
BetaNews: Google thoroughly rocked the smartphone world on Monday morning by announcing it will be acquiring Android phone maker Motoro...
Twitter finally released a "Stalkers" app? No, it’s a phishing scam
Sophos Labs: Twitter users are being hit today by messages claiming to link to a new app from Twitter which will track your stalkers.</p> ...
Google Apps highlights – 8/12/2011
This is part of a regular series of Google Apps updates that Google post every couple of weeks. Look for the label “Google Apps highlights” and subs...
Expert says Adobe omits mention of 400 Flash Player flaws
H-Online: Officially, Adobe's current update for Flash Player has closed only 13 holes, but unofficially it is said to have closed seve...
Protect Your Kids from Cyber Predators
Posted by the Stop. Think. Connect. Campaign on Homeland Security</p> Cyber predators are real. They use the anonymity of t...
Half of Corporate Adobe Reader Users Run Outdated Versions
SOFTPEDIA: According to statistics gathered by cloud security provider Zscaler, 56.4% of enterprise users have out of date Adobe Reader...
Fake Firefox update includes password-stealing trojan
H-Online: Security specialist Sophos reports that it has discovered new spam email messages that claim to be an advisory related to an ...
Get Ready for Microsoft 13 updates for August Patch Tuesday
The Hacker News: Microsoft has announced that it will release 13 bulletins to address 22 vulnerabilities in Windows, Office, Internet E...
Facebook CAPTCHA fail
SophosLabs: Facebook has taken security to a whole new level.</p> I think this speaks for itself.
QuickTime 7.7 closes security holes
H-Security Online: Version 7.7 of QuickTime is now available for users running Windows XP SP2 or later and Mac OS X v10.5.8 Leopard. Th...
A major update in Google Chrome: Instant Page and 5200+ revisions
The Google Chrome team announced the arrival of Chrome 13.0.782.107 to the Stable Channel for Windows, Mac, Linux, and C...
Microsoft adds RAW photo file support to Windows
Microsoft announced the release of a Camera Codec pack for Windows that offers support for the RAW file format from within Windows Explorer as well as Win...
Windows 8: The death of malware? The death of anti-malware?
BetaNews: There is a lot of buzz about a recent set of tests by NSS Labs that show the Smartscreen reputation system in Internet Explorer 9 head and shoul...
AnonPlus, Anonymous’s social network, is hacked
My Personal Opinion: I doubt if that site is really their official website or not</p> Sophos Labs: Within da...
Anonymous hacks NATO servers
Anonymous claims to have stolen around a gigabyte of classified NATO data ...
Using data to protect people from malware
This is an article posted in Google Online Security Blog, it's about unusual traffics being sent from infected computers during search or web surfing, if ...
The old dogs are still in learning mode
Norman Security Blog wrote a good article about Fake AVs and their new variants and how to protect ourselves, Credit to my friend, Pondus, for sharing thi...
Microsoft Standalone System Sweeper
ghacks.net: Microsoft has just released a beta of a system recovery software. Microsoft Standalone System Sweeper has been designed to aid users in starti...
No More Offline Gmail in Google Chrome
Google Operation System Blog wrote:</p> Chrome 12, the upcoming version of Google's browser which is likely to be released today, ...
Everyone need a job, me too
Hey my blog readers!</p> How is it going? Did enjoy your days? What's new in your life? A paid job is something essential fo...
Facebook: Keeping You Safe from Scams and Spam
Facebook Security: Facebook is committed to bringing you a safe experience on the Internet, and today we are announcing several new...
Microsoft heading for $8bn Skype acquisition
V3.co.uk: Microsoft is a whisker away from an $8bn deal to buy VoIP firm Skype in its biggest ever foray into the acquisition market, a...
The Seamless, Automagical Future of Software Updates
Gizmodo: OS X Lion is coming to the Mac App Store, ushering in a new era of digital distribution for their desktop op...
ATB Released “Distant Earth”
“Distant Earth” is ATB’s 9th studio album, which was released on the 29th of April 2011, by Kontor Records. It features 2 CDs in the standard edition, 3 CDs ...
Google Chrome Stable 11 is released!
The Google Chrome team is happy to announce the arrival of Chrome 11.0.696.57 to the Stable Channel for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome...
Avira receives AV-Test.org certificate
Avira TechBlog: Great news – our Avira Premium Security Suite received the next AV-Test.org certificate, this time for the first quarte...
Survey reveals Mac and PC people think differently
TUAW: According to the results of a massive survey by Hunch.com, Mac people are frequently young, vegetarian city-dwellers who like mod...
Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office and OpenOffice compared
Since 2003, the number of exploitable vulnerabilities has fallen considerably in Microsoft's Of...
Yet another VB100 award for Avira!
Avira TechBlog: The series continues – Avira AntiVir Personal and Avira AntiVir Professional received the April 2011 VB100 award! The t...
Adobe Flash Player 10.2.159.1 is now available
Adobe Flash Player 10.2.159.1 is now available! Download it from here: http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ </div>
Latest PowerPoint security patch has problems
On its recent patch day, Microsoft released security updates to fix vulnerabilities in multiple versions of its Office products. The pa...
The Update Wave is rolling: Apple, Adobe, Google
Avira TechBlog: Today some updates need attention – they fix critical security issues and should be installed immediately!</p> ...
Facebook password changed? Malware attack poses as message from Facebook support
Sophos Labs: Repeat after me: It's “Facebook”, not “FaceBook”.</p> Learn that lesson and it can be one of the tri...
Adobe plans Flash Player Update tomorrow
Avira TechBlog: This is good news – for the recently acknowledged zero-day security vulnerability within Adobe Flash Player, Acrobat an...
WordPress.com suffers hacker attack – how to change your password
Sophos Labs: Millions of blog owners around the world are being advised to consider their password security, after WordPress.com was ha...
Follow up: Hacker Gains Access To WordPress.com Servers, Site Source Code Exposed
Follow up from: Hacker Gains Access To WordPress.com Servers</p> Tech Crunch: WordPress.com has revealed that someone has g...
Hacker Gains Access To WordPress.com Servers
Tech Crunch: WordPress.com has revealed that someone has gained access to several of the their servers this morning and that VIP custom...
Microsoft launches first Internet Explorer 10 preview
Fulfilling the hints Microsoft dropped back in March, the Redmond software company unveiled the first platform preview of Internet Expl...
Google says it did not lie about government certification for Apps
BetaNews: Google found itself fending off criticisms from competitor Microsoft on Monday over whether or not its Google Apps product tr...
Ubuntu Desktop 8.04 LTS approaches end of life
H-Online: In a post on the project's security announce mailing list, Ubuntu Release Manager Kate Stewart has reminded users th...
Microsoft’s record Patch Tuesday
H-Online: It's a record for Microsoft: 9 critical and 8 important updates close a total of 64 security holes. In the worst case, a numb...
Chromium-based Flock social web browser is no more
H-Online: In a post on their home page, the Flock developers have announced that support for their Chromium-based social web browser wi...
My naked pic is attached – malware spammed out
SophosLabs: Are you in the habit of having complete strangers email you naked pictures of themselves?</p> That's the only reason I can th...
First Firefox 4 update coming on April 26
Mozilla Links: Mozilla has announced that it will release the first update for Firefox 4 on April 26, about a month after the original ...
A new security flaw hits VLC
H-Online: Following on from last week's S3M vulnerability in the VLC media player, a new advisory warns of a buffer overflow when playi...
BBC News/Dad walks in on daughter Facebook scams
SophosLabs: Criminals and scammers on Facebook aren't resting on their laurels… in fact, they are branching out and using multiple techniques all ro...
Zero-Day Vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player, Reader and Acrobat
Avira TechBlog: Adobe released a security advisory in which it warns from a zero-day vulnerability within current version of Adobe Flas...
Twitter spam and viagra galore
Spam mails claiming to be from Twitter that send you to pharmacy sites are a popular wheeze for spammers, and here we go again.</p> ...
Fake Certificate in Malware – with Message
Avira TechBlog: The malware authors every now and then send us virus researchers some messages. For example in the compiled binary itself, or as debug out...
ZeroAccess, an advanced kernel mode rootkit
Prevx Blog: In the last couple years there have been three major players who dominated the scene in the field of the kernel mode rootkit development. They...
My Facebook wall has been viewed X times – viral survey scam spreads rapidly
SophosLabs wrote: Do you want to know the total number of times that your Facebook wall has been viewed? Are you curious as to who may be stalking you on Fac...
Comodo Group Issues Bogus SSL Certificates
from Schneier on Security by Schneier:
Chrome Bookmarks Integrate with Google Search
Google Operation System: Until recently, Google Bookmarks and Chrome Bookmarks were two separate features that didn’t speak the same language. Even if you co...
Google +1
Google Operation System: Google +1 is yet another attempt to make Google more social. It’s Google’s version of the Facebook “likes”, a simple feature that’s ...
Google Talk Guru
Google Talk Guru is a new Google bot that lets you ask simple questions. It’s “an experimental service that allows people to get information like sports resu...
Analysis of TR/Spy.SpyEye
Avira TechBlog: SpyEye is a malware family which we are monitoring for some time. Today we are analyzing a sample which is detected as TR/Spy.SpyEye.flh by A...
Security Vulnerabilities in Chrome
Avira TechBlog: It looks like new Chrome releases aren’t due every six weeks as Google announced a few weeks ago, but once a week now – the company just rele...
Google, Yahoo, Skype targeted in attack linked to Iran
Cnet: A malicious attacker that appears to be the Iranian government managed to obtain supposedly secure digital certificates that can be used to impersonate...
Talking to your computer (with HTML5!)
Google Chrome Blog: Today, we’re updating the Chrome beta channel with a couple of new capabilities, especially for web developers. Fresh from the work that ...
Switch to Gmail
Gmail Blog: Posted by Jason Toff, Product Marketing Manager
Data loss at Play.com
Play.com, one of the largest online retailers of DVDs, CDs, MP3s, books and gadgets, emailed its customers yesterday admitting to a security breach in its ma...
Firefox Extension Used in Facebook Scam
Symantec Connect: Not only Facebook is adding new and interesting features to its toolbox; spammers and scammers in Facebook are, too. Currently there is a s...
Many Updates: Flash Player, Mac OS X, Firefox
Avira TechBlog: Today is a busy day for those who want to keep their computers secure: Many updates are available, from Adobes Flash Player over Apples Mac O...
Firefox 4.0 final is released
Over the past week or two, we have been keeping track of the various releases of Firefox 4 including RC1 and RC2, counting down to the official release tomor...
Installing an Application Using Internet Explorer 9
Google Operation System Blog: I tried to download the latest Chromium build using Internet Explorer 9 and it was one of the most painful downloading experien...
I want to share this with you!
Hey, It’s been my birthday last Thursday Now 23 Years old (I know I know, I’m getting old… )
WD Introduces 6TB External HDD for HD Content Creation
IRVINE, Calif., March 17, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Western Digital® (NYSE: WDC), the world's leader in external storage solutions, today introduced its M...
Porn Industry Could Get a “.xxx” Domain This Week
Mashable: The porn industry is rumored to win a major battle this week with the possible approval of the .xxx domain.
A Technical Analysis on the CVE-2011-0609 Adobe Flash Player Vulnerability
Microsoft Malware Protection Center: On March 14, Adobe released a security advisory (APSA11-01) warning of 0-day attacks affecting Adobe Flash Player (versi...
Twitter goes secure – say goodbye to Firesheep with "Always use HTTPS" option
Sophos Labs: Good news on the social networking security front is that Twitter has finally got its act together to offer an Always use HTTPS option.
New Chrome Logo
The latest Chrome Dev Channel release comes with a new Chrome logo that’s more plain and boring, but looks better as a desktop icon. Even if not many people ...
Google Docs Gets a Real-Time Upgrade
In a bid to make Google Docs more appealing to workers and consumers, Google is rolling out a new feature that lets users of its productivity service discuss...
Google Toolbar 8, Powered by Google Chrome
Google Operation System: After Google released Chrome, Google Toolbar’s development slowed down. That’s because Google Toolbar is no longer the primary vehic...
WebM Plugin for Internet Explorer 9
Google Operation System: Internet Explorer 9 will be released later today and one of the many new features is the native support for videos. Unfortunately fo...
Internet Explorer 9 is out, includes new security features
isc.sans.edu: Microsoft released version 9 of its Internet Explorer web browser. You can download IE 9 from windows.microsoft.com.
Twitter using Gamification to increase followers
I just read an interesting post in ThinkVitamin.com and wanted to share with you:
Pinguy OS 11.04 Pre-Alpha Released
Pinguy OS an out-of-the-box working operating system for everyone, not just geeks.This OS is for people that have never used Linux before or for people that ...
Gmailers: Skinnier and smartier than Yahoo! users?
A new study shows that Gmail users are more likely to be young, thin, career-minded men, while Yahoo! is more typically home to overweight, older women
Critical Adobe Flaw without Patch
Avira TechBlog: A vulnerability within the current versions of Adobe Flash Player on all supported platforms has been found, warns the company. Affected are ...
Chat with your Facebook friends on Yahoo! Mail Beta
Yahoo Mail Blog wrote:
Spammers Exploit Japan’s Catastrophic State
Symantec: Only a few days ago, Japan experienced one of the worst earthquakes in its history. The earthquake registered 8.9 on the Richter scale and triggere...
PWN2OWN – Apple v. Google v. Microsoft v. Mozilla v. BlackBerry!
Sophos Labs Blog: If you’re interested in computer security, you’ve probably heard of PWN2OWN. It’s a competition which has become an annual fixture at the a...
More Browser Updates
Avira TechBlog: Well, actually we expect some more updates as some security vulnerabilities have been revealed at the Pwn2Own contest during the CanSecWest s...
Google to Launch Major New Social Network Called Circles, Possibly Today
Today I’ve read a nice article in readwriteweb.com so I wanted share it with you:
Facebook and The White House join forces in the fight against bullying
Examiner.com wrote: As many people are aware, bullying today is not like it used to be. Back in the day, all one had to do to turn his bully in was give the...
Unconfirmed reports that Yahoo has sold Delicious for $5 Million
TheNextWeb wrote: We’ve received a solid report from a reliable and proven source that Yahoo has sold social bookmarking site Delicious for $5m+.
Twitter to developers: enough with the third-party apps
Twitter has issued a statement to its mailing list encouraging third-party developers to cease creating applications that use the Twitter API solely to dupli...
Internet Explorer 9 hits RTM
TechSpot wrote: Microsoft this week reportedly signed off the Release to Manufacturing (RTM) build of Internet Explorer 9. The RTM build is 9.00.8112.16421.1...
Chrome 12 Will Drop Support for Google Gears
Google Operation System: While most Chrome users have been upgraded to Chrome 10, Google is fixing the bugs from Chrome 11 and working on Chrome 12. A recent...
Please donate RedCross for Japanese earthquake victims
Please text REDCROSS to 90999 to donate $10 to the RedCross for Japanese earthquake victims (US Only)</p> Spread this message! ...
Here’s some good news for Mac users! Go Avira!
Avira’s Anti-Virus Technology Used by ZeoBIT in New System Utility – MacKeeper
Microsoft rolls out new virtualization tools for Desktop Optimization Pack
BetaNews wrote: Thursday, Microsoft announced two updates to its Software Assurance Desktop Optimization Pack for enterprise Windows deployments available im...
A Mini-Newsletter From Your Google Chrome Security Team
Google Chrome Security Team wrote: We’re always working hard to enhance the Chrome browser with bug fixes, new defenses and new features. The release of Chro...
What’s New in Chrome 10?
Google Chrome 10 is ready for primetime and it comes with a surprising number of new features. Here are some of them:
A new Chrome stable release today with sync, sandboxing, speed…and a new settings menu too!
cross-posted on the Official Google Blog
Introducing the Google APIs Explorer
Google is always looking for new ways to make it easier for developers to get started with our APIs. When you come across a new Google API, you often want to...
Adobe Releases Flash-to-HTML5 Converter, Codenamed Wallaby
Mashable: Monday night, Adobe released a new, experimental Flash-to-HTML5 conversion tool codenamed Wallaby.
Google Acquires BeatThatQuote for $61.5 Million
Mashable wrote: Google has broken new ground in the personal finance realm with the purchase of UK price comparison website BeatThatQuote for $61.5 million (...
Google removes Android malware so you don’t have to
BetaNews.com: Android handsets infected with malware are getting a cleaning job from Google. On March 2nd, Google removed 21 apps from the Android Marketplac...
Leaked: Windows 8 build 7910 screenshots
TechSpot Wrote: A few new Windows 8 user interface screenshots have leaked. Windows 8 build 7910 is part of the Milestone 2 branch, so we’re not seeing the l...
Chrome OS Beta Channel Update
The Chrome OS Beta channel has been updated to R10 release 0.10.156.46 including the new Chrome 10 Beta, new trackpad and several stability and functional im...
Avril Lavigne released “Goodbye Lullaby”
Goodbye Lullaby is the fourth studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Avril Lavigne. The album was first released on 2 March 2011. Recording sessions bega...
Google acquires Zynamics
Internet giant buys into security.
Gmail back soon for everyone
Gmail Blog posted:
Many Gmail Users Can’t Find Their Messages
Imagine loading Gmail and noticing that all your messages have been deleted. This is a real problem for many Gmail users who thought that they lost all of th...
Announcing Availability of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
http://windowsteamblog.com: Today we officially handed off the final release (RTM) of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1) to our OEM pa...
Life is beautiful!
Sorry about being late in updating my blog
I’ll be back!
Sorry about not updating my blog, I’ll be back! (soon perhaps!)
Happy New Year!
Hello ‘Omid’s Blog!’ readers!
Red Hat Near Key Support Area
New York, December 27th (TradersHuddle.com) – Shares of Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT) are trading very close to calculated support at $45.27 with current price ac...
Facebook’s value surpasses Yahoo, eBay
A new study from New York securities firm NYPPEX estimates Facebook’s enterprise value is now much higher than Yahoo and EBay, at $41.2 billion and significa...
Google may have told Logitech to stop the Revue
Google really isn’t happy with its TV operating system. In addition to telling companies not to mention their Google TV products at CES next month, now it lo...
CIA launches W.T.F. (WikiLeaks Task Force)
Washington Post: The CIA has launched a task force to assess the impact of the exposure of thousands of U.S. diplomatic cables and military files by WikiLeaks.
Issues with the recent update for Outlook 2007
MSDN Blog: On Tuesday, December 14, we released an update (KB2412171) for Microsoft Outlook 2007. We have discovered several issues with the update and want ...
Your own email @facebook.com? Beware Facebook survey scam
Thousands of Facebook users have been hit by a scam which claims to give them early access to a facebook.com email address.
New hacked site notifications in search results
Today we’ve added a new notification to our search results that helps people know when a site may have been hacked. We’ve provided notices for malware for ye...
Are you ready for Opera 11?
Newest Opera browser features tab stacking, extensions, visual mouse gestures
Don’t Lie to Me, Angelina!
Earlier this year I received a Facebook invite in my Yahoo! Mail account from none other than Angelina Jolie herself. I kid you not.
17 Security Updates on MS Patchday
As announced Friday last week, Microsoft delivers 17 security updates on the December 2010 Patchday. The Updates close 2 highly critical security holes which...
Days are still going on, but how?–Part7
In continue from Days are still going on, but how?–Part6
LastPass Acquires Xmarks!
In our efforts to bring you expanded, go-anywhere access to your data, we’re happy to announce that LastPass recently acquired Xmarks!
Plenty of Updates announced
Avira TechBlog: Next Tuesday is going to be tough for administrators: The Redmond company announces 17 security bulletins which are supposed to fix 40 securi...
QuickTime 7.6.9 update resolves 15 vulnerabilities
This week Apple announced the availability of QuickTime 7.6.9 for OS X 10.5 and Windows platforms. This release fixes 13 vulnerabilities in QuickTime for OS ...
Dutch police website attacked after arrest of suspected hacker
Just a day after Dutch police arrested a 16-year-old boy in connection with WikiLeaks-related denial-of-service attacks, websites belonging to the Netherland...
Christina Aguilera blames hacker for risqué leaked photos
Sophos Labs: Semi-nude pictures of Christina Aguilera leaked onto the internet earlier this week, causing fans of the pint-sized pop diva to feverishly run t...
Google Maps for Android to Add 3D and Offline Support
Mashable: Get ready, folks with no sense of direction; Google Maps 5.0 app for Android is looking to make your life a lot easier with 3D graphics, more accur...
Google Launches Tool to Get Companies to Back Up Their E-mails With Gmail
Google has just launched Message Continuity, a cloud-based enterprise solution for backing up corporate e-mail whenever Microsoft Exchange goes down.
Who’s Using Twitter?
Mashable: The Pew Center is out with a new report that focuses on Twitter usage in the U.S., and it reveals that 6% of the entire U.S. adult population uses ...
Google: We’re activating 300,000 Android phones daily
Android activations have now surpassed 300,000 per day which equals the number of activations for Symbian worldwide, according to data provided by Google. It...
MySpace Introduces “Hijacks” With the Black Eyed Peas
The Black Eyed Peas have taken over MySpace in an effort to improve its social entertainment offerings.
Twitter Celebrates 100 Million New Accounts in 2010
Twitter has seen a phenomenal amount of growth in the past year. In fact, the company claims more than 100 million new accounts were opened in 2010.
Facebook Announces First Hacker Cup
Mashable: Facebook is known for its hackathons — all-night coding sessions designed to help create new products or improve others. Now the company has announ...
Adobe Reader and Google Chrome
The latest release of Google Chrome includes the Chrome PDF Viewer which won’t properly display some PDF files like Dynamic Forms and PDF Portfolios. While G...
Photoshop CS5 update (12.0.2) now available
Adobe: The Adobe Photoshop 12.0.2 update (Mac Win) speeds up painting performance and fixes a number of problems discovered after Photos...
Google Officially Unveils Chrome Web Store
Google officially unveiled the long-anticipated Chrome Web Store at its big Chrome event today.
Google Chrome Has 120 Million Users
Google revealed during its Chrome press conference today that its web browser now has 120 million users. That’s 50 million more users than it had less than s...
Microsoft’s Still Not Talking About Windows Phone 7 Sales Numbers
Mashable: Windows Phone 7 has been on the market for a little more than a month, but the company still isn’t disclosing how many devices featuring its revamp...
Celebrities’ Internet “Deaths” Raise $1M for Charity
Mashable: Facebook and the Twitterverse have been a little quieter for the past several days, as some of the networks’ most famous users — including Lady Gag...
Google announces Chrome OS hardware and first pilot program
BetaNews: One year ago, Google gave the world its first look at Chrome OS, a project taking a new approach to thin clients and terminal computing. The long a...
Internet Explorer 9 will feature "do not track" functionality
BetaNews: In light of the recent rash of “history sniffing” bugs and the Federal Trade Commission’s proposed “do not track” list, Microsoft today announced t...
The Google Cr-48 Chrome OS Notebook Is All About the Web
Mashable: Google just launched artillery deep into territories held by Microsoft and Apple by making one of the biggest announcements in its history: The rev...
Spam Carrying WikiLeaks Worm
Symantec Connect: WikiLeaks.org is in the news after their recent publications linked to leaked government documents. Spammers are now leveraging the current...
Taking a look at fake Amazon receipt generators
Sunbelt Blog:
After More Than 24 Hours Offline, Tumblr Is Back
Mashable: Tumblr has returned to the web after a full day’s, err, vacation.
Amazon to Unveil New Kindle Web App Tomorrow
Mashable: After launching its own incredibly successful, single-purpose hardware and a slew of free apps for mobile and PC devices, Amazon is getting ready t...
Download Google Books App for iPhone
Google has just released ‘Google Books’ app for iOS. The Google Books app offers access to over 2 million Google eBooks on iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad. Take ...
Twitter Trend Poisoning Cookbook
Symantec Connect: We have become familiar enough with malware creators poisoning popular search engine terms through SEO techniques in order to deliver their...
Looks familiar? Yes! From Alureon!
It’s a normal day to us. We receive a new Bamital virus sample report from a customer, and we provide an analysis. Suddenly, something interesting bursts int...
Malicious Goo.gl Links Spreading on Twitter [WARNING]
Mashable: A large number of messages containing only the link “goo.gl/R7f68” has appeared on Twitter today, redirecting the users to various malware-laden si...
Improved Avira AntiVir Rescue System
Avira programmers spent a lot of work and drastically overhauled the Avira AntiVir Rescue System which is now available in version 3.7.16. Next to a much bet...
Security issue in Website Optimizer
Take a look in the Email I got from Google a few minutes ago:
Google Opens Doors to E-Bookstore
The New York Time: The Google e-bookstore is finally open.
Popular sites (including YouPorn) caught sniffing user browser history
The Register: YouPorn nabbed in real-world privacy sting
WikiLeaked Cable Says 2009 Brazilian Blackout Wasn’t Hackers, Either
Wired: SAO PAULO — Despite widespread speculation at the time, a massive power outage that left 18 out of the 26 Brazilian states in the dark for up to six h...
Chinese hackers ‘slurped 50 MB of US gov email’
The Register: Windows source code tapped, say WikiLeaked docs
Gmail Priority Inbox Now Learns Much Faster
Google has upgraded its Priority Inbox, a recently launched Gmail feature that automatically places important mail on top of your inbox, with a couple of imp...
W32.Yimfoca.B – Malware Localization
The latest W32.Yimfoca.B variants can target malicious links in no fewer than 44 countries and nearly 20 different languages. It has also increased the numbe...
FTC is considering “do not track” mechanism for web users
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has accepted a preliminary staff report that lays out a framework for Internet privacy and suggests a “do not track” ...
Hackers use malware to break into computers of over 50 pop stars
According to The Telegraph, German prosecutors are accusing two local hackers of breaking into the computers of over 50 pop stars, including Lady Gaga, Kelly...
Adobe update spam scam
Here’s the latest twist in the “membership” site scam: spam emails that tell potential victims to update their Adobe Reader include links to a web site inten...
Proxy services take novel approach to privacy
You’ve locked down your computer. Nothing is going to bypass your privacy shielding programs. AdBlock is fully loaded, NoScript is ready to roll and RefContr...
This isn’t a video, it’s a phish
You might be seeing something on your Facebook wall today:
More Problems for WikiLeaks: Switzerland Cuts Off Founder’s Bank Account
Switzerland has taken new action against WikiLeaks by shutting down founder Julian Assange’s bank account.
Google unveils Samsung Nexus S with Android 2.3 [Specifications & Price]
Google has finally announced its new phone ‘Nexus S’ manufactured by Samsung and is the first phone powered by the latest Android 2.3 Gingerbread OS. Nexus S...
Google acquires Netflix, Vudu, and Blockbuster’s streaming video DRM provider Widevine
Google announced on Friday that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Widevine, a Seattle-based company that has focused on DRM and security for stream...
Take screenshots of Web Pages in Google Chrome with ‘Screen Capture’ extension by Google
Screen Capture (by Google) is an effective and useful extension for Google Chrome, which allows users to quickly and easily capture quality screenshots of We...
Facebook adds “new profiles”
Avira TechBlog: Facebook offers a “new profile” feature that many users adopt very fast. It is possible to mark the best friends and family and show them mor...
WikiLeaks Now Has Hundreds of Mirrors
WikiLeaks is currently not available at WikiLeaks.org. It recently lost its DNS service provider, and the site itself has been battered by DDoS attacks for m...
Facebook makes user profiles more visual
Though it is primarily known as a social networking site, Facebook is actually one of the top destinations for photo sharing, and a new user profile design c...
The Yahoo-AOL Merger Rumors Heat Up, But What Do They Really Mean?
Mashable: The AOL-Yahoo rumors are heating up once again. This time, they involve splitting up the AOL empire into two divisions before engaging in a merger ...
Days are still going on, but how?–Part6
In continue from Days are still going on, but how?–Part5
Stuxnet and WikiLeaks – What do they have in common?
At first glance, two recent security stories, the Stuxnet attack on Iran’s nuclear industry and the WikiLeaks breach of US State Department communications, d...
Google Chrome 8 available
Google just released version 8 of its web browser Chrome. It fixes 13 security vulnerabilities of which 4 got rated “high”ly critical – the people reporting ...
Days are still going on, but how?–Part5
In continue from Days are still going on, but how?–Part4
Oficla downloads MBR Ransomware
Avira TechBlog: We discovered a new ransomware threat which is downloaded by a Trojan of the Oficla family. This downloaded threat replaces the MBR (master b...
Paypal’s advise: “Use your bank account for your Paypal-payments”. Really ?!
Righard Zwienenberg, Chief Research Officer at Norman posted this on Norman Security Blog, Thanks to Mr.Fagerlid for sharing:
Is an Apple iPad 2 on the way?
An iPad 2 could hit shelves as early as next year, according to at least one source.
Apple forces PhotoFast to abandon 256GB upgrade kit for MacBook Airs
Remember that peppy aftermarket 256GB SSD upgrade from PhotoFast that easily smoked (on paper anyway) the SSD found in Apple’s latest MacBook Air? It’s been ...
Microsoft to launch streaming internet TV subscription service
Microsoft appears to be preparing themselves to step into the streaming media field alongside Apple, Netflix, Hulu, and other competing providers who have jo...
Link to a YouTube Comment
If you happen to find a YouTube comment that’s really interesting and you want to share it with other people, mouse over the comment, click on the “Share” bu...
Google Earth 6: Better Street View and 3D Trees
Google Earth 6 doesn’t have too many new features. You can now use Street View just like in Google Maps by dragging the pegman icon. “To view street-level im...
Pirate Bay ruling sparks DDoS attacks against IFPI
The Anonymous group takes revenge after legal decision against Pirate Bay founders
Iran: Computer Malware Sabotaged Uranium Centrifuges
A security man stands next to an anti-aircraft gun as he scans Iran’s nuclear enrichment facility in Natanz, 300 kil...
Windows Vista & Windows 7 Kernel Bug Can Bypass UAC
Now this is not the first time Windows UAC has hit the news for being flawed, back in February 2009 it was discovered that Windows 7 UAC Vulnerable – User Mo...
WikiLeaks Hit By Another DDoS Attack
Controversial whistleblower website WikiLeaks was hit by another massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack earlier this morning. On Sunday, the sit...
Winamp Is Back With Powerful Android Media Player
One of the greatest setbacks of the Android platform has been the absence of a killer media player, as its native media player is simply lacking. To date, Do...
Hacker Takes Responsibility for Wikileaks Takedown
Mashable: The distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that took down WikiLeaks as the site published secret U.S. embassy cables over the weekend could be...
Kim Kardashian Tops Bing’s Most Popular Searches of 2010
Mashable: Bing is getting an early start on the “best of 2010” lists, releasing its compilation of the year’s most popular search terms a little more than a ...
George W. Bush to Visit Facebook HQ for Live Video Q&A
Former U.S. President George W. Bush’s book tour will stop at Facebook’s headquarters in Palo Alto on Monday, with the social networking site announcing a “F...
Politics and malware make strange bedfellows
Sophos Labs: There are two stories that have been the focus of much speculation that have come to some closure today. New information confirming many peoples...
Fake Trojan Removal Kit serves up ThinkPoint Rogue
You might want to steer clear of the following fake security program, being promoted as a “Windows Trojan Removal Kit” but actually hijacking your PC in the ...
Facebook co-founder launches social network Jumo for social good
CNN – Mashable: Today, users can start connecting with all their favorite social causes in one online sphere, as Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes has launche...
Days are still going on, but how?–Part4
In continue from Days are still going on, but how?–Part3
Days are still going on, but how?–Part3
In continue from: Part 2 of ‘Life is going on But how?’
Days are still going on, but how?–Part2
In continue from: Part 1 of ‘Life is going on But how?’
Days are still going on, but how?–Part1
About 6 months ago, I decide to go pass my military service, It’s a compulsory military service for every boy over 18 years old in my country.
WikiLeaks Targeted in DDoS Attack as Latest Leak Hits the Web
Mashable: Controversial whistleblower website WikiLeaks is reporting that it’s under a “mass distributed denial of service attack” just as its much-hyped lea...
Can you really see who viewed your Facebook profile? Rogue application spreads virally
SophosLab: Once again, a rogue application is spreading virally between Facebook users pretending to offer you a way of seeing who has viewed your profile.
Comment on Stuxnet and more Windows 0-days
Over the last few days, some news organizations have been saying that Stuxnet source code is available on the black market, and that clearly therefor there i...
Closer look at W32/Ramnit.C
Thomas Wegele, Virus Researcher from Avira wrote: In this month’s ITW malware set from the Wildlist organization two new variants of W32/Ramnit appeared. W32...
The Pirate Bay founders sentenced to jail
The Swedish Appeals Court upheld the conviction and jail sentences of three co-founders behind the infamous The Pirate Bay service. Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij...
Google Chrome and Multiple Profiles
Google Chrome has always supported multiple profiles, but you had to use a command-line flag (–user-data-dir=”c:\path\to\the\profile”) to associate a profile...
Rainbow 0.2 is here!
For those who missed this update on Nov 18:
Miramar (Thunderbird 3.3) Alpha 1 available for testing
Mozilla announced Miramar Alpha 1, an early version of their next Thunderbird.
Beware the Justin Bieber erection Facebook scam
That’s possibly the most unlikely headline I’ve ever had to write in my computer security career, but never mind..
Miley Cyrus and cybercriminals make strange bedfellows
Miley Cyrus is eighteen years old since yesterday.
Christmas Tree app virus hoax spreads on Facebook
Thousands of Facebook users are warning each other about a Christmas Tree virus said to be spreading in the form of a rogue application on the social network.
Over 40 security fixes for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch in iOS 4.2
Yesterday, Apple pushed out the much anticipated update to its mobile operating system – iOS 4.2.
Lost laptop leads to first Data Protection Act fine for UK firm
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined two organizations for serious breaches of the Data Protection Act – the first to be issued under new ...
Safe holidays season
Avira TechBlog: Thanksgiving and according holidays are very close – a time in which many people have the time to do (online) shopping. The cyber criminals a...
7-Zip version 9 is out
For those who missed this update on Nov 18:
Never gonna come back down!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nt52SoAeP48
It’s getting colder here!
Good news, at least for me who love winter, it’s getting colder here, forecast says! Winter is one month away!
Wanted: more than 2,000, in Google hiring spree
Reuters: Google Inc plans to hire more than 2,000 people around the globe, bumping up its workforce as it expands into new markets and battles for talent wit...
Something new from AOL: Project Phoenix
Take a look in the email I got from AOL:
VirusTotal Google Chrome browser extension a.k.a. VTchromizer
VirusTotal has just coded a Google Chrome browser extension to interact with VirusTotal. The extension adds an option to the context menu to analyze links wi...
Adobe Reader X is now available!
Adobe Reader X is now available! Download Reader X for desktop at http://get.adobe.com/reader/ or access the mobile app on the Android Market via your Androi...
MySpace deal looks to Facebook to gain and retain users
BBC: The once dominant MySpace has turned to the company that stole its crown, Facebook, for help to drive users to its ailing site.
Now this is it!
Hi Folks!
Google Docs editing comes to Android and iOS
Native Google Docs support has finally arrived for Android and iOS (the mobile version of Google Docs has been available for over three years). Edits show up...
‘Naked’ scanners fooled by creased clothing
Controversial “naked” body scanners currently being tested at Hamburg’s airport are constantly malfunctioning due to folds in passengers’ clothing, broadcast...
Microsoft: Google is a hard habit to break
Microsoft says Google is a bad habit, and it’s hard for people to break it in order to try alternatives, such as the company’s search engine, Bing. “It’s a h...
Facebook takes on traditional e-mail with Social Inbox
Facebook has announced a new product that will compete directly with the e-mail services provided by Yahoo, Microsoft, Google, and AOL. Facebook believes tra...
The Beatles are Onboard But Why are there Still Musicians like Kid Rock and AC/DC holding out on iTunes?
PC Magazine: The Beatles have finally given iTunes a ticket to ride, allowing their iconic music to be added to Apple’s catalog. But while the Fab Four might...
Facebook bug disables thousands of female user accounts
Thousands of female Facebook users had their accounts inexplicably disabled today. They did not violate Facebook’s terms of use but nevertheless, they are se...
Yahoo announces more changes
THE INTERNET SEARCH OUTFIT without a search engine, Yahoo has announced a package of products that it hopes will make it more relevant again.
IE9 alleged to be cheating in JavaScript benchmark
We’ve all heard of graphics card makers optimizing their drivers for various benchmarks—some of you might recall the Quack story as one of the earlier exampl...
Windows Phone 7 outlasts iPhone, Android… on a BBQ
Todd Bishop, TechFlash: Not sure if this will factor into anyone’s purchasing decisions, but it looks like Windows Phone 7 is the smartphone for you — at lea...
Hidden second Wi-Fi network with the Thomson TWG870U router
Righard Zwienenberg from Norman Security Center Blog posted something interesting, Thanks to Mr. Fagerlid for Sharing:
NVidia CEO: Upcoming Android Tablets to Bring Better Graphics and Multitasking
Mashable: We know that a number of Android tablets are coming in the next couple of months. But will these devices be able to compete with Apple’s iPad, whic...
Mozilla releases beta 7 of Firefox 4, claims 3-5x performance boost
BetaNews: Mozilla Wednesday released a significant update to the beta of its Firefox 4 browser. The update adds a new JavaScript JIT compiler, going by the n...
Google Cleans Up Messy Data with Refine
Mashable: If you live for data, slave over spreadsheets and constantly find yourself sifting through endless rows and columns of facts and figures, Google’s ...
iTunes Store links up with Twitter via Ping
BetaNews: Ping, the social music service introduced as a part of iTunes 10 in September, can now be linked with Twitter, the popular micro blogging service a...
Facebook to Spend Nearly Half a Billion Dollars on New Data Center
Mashable: Facebook’s running out of servers to handle its 500+ million users, so it has decided to build a new data center in North Carolina that will cost a...
Say Hello to the Samsung Nexus S
Mashable: If you didn’t think the Nexus S was real, perhaps these pictures of the purported device will convince you otherwise.
More than 100 security fixes in Mac OS X 10.6.5
Apple has issued the latest update to its Mac OS X operating system, bringing Snow Leopard users up to Mac OS X 10.6.5.
Female hacker charged with stealing nude photos of Grady Sizemore
In 2009, naked photographs of American baseball star Grady Sizemore circulated on the internet after being stolen from the email account of his then girlfrie...
Google Now, Enhancing SWF Indexing..!!
This is amazing news indeed. Its has been feature talk with many of clients and colleagues all long for many years.
Facebook brand pages hit by malicious links
CNet: The latest security fiasco on Facebook’s application platform may involve business pages rather than personal accounts: Sendible, a company that makes ...
Hotmail Always-On Encryption Breaks Microsoft’s Own Apps
Oh look, Microsoft is late to the party again? They are finally launching full-session SSL encryption to Hotmail a mere 2 years after Google did the same thi...
Firesheep author takes backhanded pot-shot at free speech
Sophos Labs: Two weeks ago, an automatic session-hijacking plugin was released for Firefox. It was named Firesheep, and it’s been downloaded over 600,000 tim...
Google bars data from Facebook as rivalry heats up
Reuters: Google Inc will begin blocking Facebook and other Web services from accessing its users’ information, highlighting an intensifying rivalry between t...
Cable lost 500,000+ subscribers in Q3, thanks to the Web
Last quarter was the first time ever that US pay-for TV subscription rates declined, and in Q3 2010, cable lost over 518,300 subscribers in total, according ...
Facebook’s Zuckerberg Now Richer Than Apple’s Steve Jobs
Just 5 years after founding Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg is worth more than Apple’s iconic chief Steve Jobs.
Graph Of When People Break Up On Facebook
David McCandless recently gave a presentation about data visualization in which he unveiled this graph, which tracked 10,000 Facebook status updates to deter...
Find Words Smarter with Word Suggestions
Mozilla Labs:In our first Prospector experiment, Speak Words, we helped Firefox learn what words you might want to type into the Awesome Bar. We have taken t...
Firefox 4 Beta 2 Now Available For Android And Maemo
Firefox 4 Beta 2 has been released and you can download it in 10 languages on your Android or Maemo device. The new version comes with a wide range of fixes ...
Google Chrome Gets Its Own PDF Viewer
For Google Chrome users, viewing PDFs in the browser has been a colossal pain for lo these many moons. That’s why we are (and you should be) thrilled to lear...
Google Instant Goes Mobile
Mashable: A beta version of Google Instant is now available on many U.S. iPhone and Android mobile devices.
Google Android Turns 3
Mashable: Today marks exactly three years since Google and a slew of hardware and carrier partners officially announced the Android mobile operating system.
WordPress Adds Feature for Embedding Tweets
Mashable: Months ago, Twitter released a clunky tool called Blackbird Pie for embedding tweets in blog posts. Today WordPress has radically simplified and im...
It’s Alive: Xmarks Back From the Brink
Mashable: It looks like cross-browser, bookmark syncing service Xmarks won’t be going out of business after all.
Steve Ballmer Sells $1.3 Billion Worth of Microsoft Shares
Mashable: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has sold 12% of his stake in the tech giant in a transaction worth over $1.3 billion.
No p*rn for you, naughty boy!
There are always peculiar things malware researchers discover while analyzing new samples.
AV scam: is it a rogue or is it AVG’s free edition for sale?
Tom Kelchner, Sunbelt blog: Alert reader Laurie (my boss actually) forwarded a copy an email she received from a friend. It said the sender was “…pleased to ...
Patchday ahead
The Redmond company today published its announcement for the upcoming November Patch Tuesday. Microsoft wants to release 3 security bulletins which deal with...
Google Chrome’s Version Number Is Meaningless
Google Operation System blog:
Microsoft tempts antitrust lawyers with expanded antivirus offering
Ed Bott’s Microsoft Report posted something interesting in ZDNet:
Microsoft Smart Screen False Positives
SANS.edu: We received a couple of reports about Microsoft’s “Smart Screen” flagging harmless sites as malicious. Initially, we considered the possibility of ...
Webcam cyber-sextortionist preyed on over 200 women
A perverted hacker who spied upon more than 200 women via their webcams and microphones, after infecting their computers with malware, was arrested earlier t...
Workaround for vulnerability affecting Internet Explorer
Microsoft has released a security advisory concerning a vulnerability affecting Internet Explorer versions 6, 7 and 8. This vulnerability may allow an attack...
Android Overtakes iPhone
Wall Street Journal: It looks like Steve Jobs may have something to be nervous about after all.
Facebook’s smaller font size straining eyes
(CNN) — Facebook is the biggest name in social networking. But overnight, it got smaller.
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 TDP is 244W, includes 128 TMU, Benchmarks Leaked
Chinese website eNet has filled in some missing information – notably TDP and TMU count. The TDP of GeForce GTX 580 is at 244W, slightly lower than the GeFor...
Facebook is fastest social network; Twitter, MySpace slowest
On average, response times and availability of five major social networks (Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, Twitter, and MySpace) has improved this past quarter,...
Microsoft allows checking Gmail through Hotmail
Microsoft’s Hotmail rolled out its new service that allows streaming mail from other vendors like Gmail and Yahoo, in an attempt to make Hotmail the primary ...
Sophos: malware on the Mac is real, here’s a free antivirus
Sophos has released a free antivirus product for consumers using Mac OS: Sophos Anti-Virus Home Edition for Mac. Although commercial antivirus products for M...
Google Docs to get cloud printing, device sync
Google Docs may soon be getting an update that will help it better compete against Microsoft’s latest cloud based Office product and make its upcoming Chrome...
Intel Core i3 2100T details leak
Details of Intel’s upcoming Sandy Bridge-based i3 processors have leaked out, and there’s one particular model that has caught people’s interest: it features...
Announcing the release of Fedora 14
Jared Smith: It’s here! It’s here! It’s really here! Fedora 14 has been officially released! Fedora is a leading edge, free and open source operating system ...
An Android Keyboard that Uses Google Scribe
Google Scribe may not seem very useful, but it’s one of the features that could significantly improve virtual keyboards from mobile phones. Instead of showin...
Service Pack 1 for Avira AntiVir Products
Avira started shipping the Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Avira AntiVir 10 yesterday! This Service Pack fixes plenty of minor bugs we found in version 10 and thus ...
Important Information about Google Buzz Class Action Settlement
Let’s take a look in the Email I got from Google right now:
Nokia C7 firmware is updated to 012.003 V1.06
Nokia C7 firmware is updated to 012.003 V1.06. The firmware is available for
Microsoft to withdraw Silverlight?
At the latest PDC conference, only a very few mentions of Silverlight were observed. It seems that Microsoft is betting on HTML5 as the future for cross plat...
New Vulnerability in Adobe Flash and Reader
Avira TechBlog: Adobe warns of a new vulnerability in Flash Player and in Reader. The problem is within authplay.dll and the corresponding .lib in the Unix v...
Google founders wanted to hire Steve Jobs as company’s first CEO
Google cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin considered hiring Apple CEO Steve Jobs as the company’s first CEO, according to a new documentary.
Security Advisory for Adobe Flash Player, Adobe Reader and Acrobat
Adobe have published details of a critical vulnerability the following applications.
New Gmail Labs Feature Saves You Precious Seconds
Gmail has just added a new “Labs” feature that should save you some time if you’re the type of person that tends to plow through your e-mail inbox in bunches.
Facebook Now Tries to Tell the Story Between Two Friends
Mashable: Facebook is rolling out a new breed of Pages called Friendship Pages that pull together the public wall posts, comments, photos (based on tags) and...
Mozilla Gives Firefox a New Add-On for Audio and Video Recording
Mozilla Labs has been working hard on browser-based audio and video — not just for playback, but also for recording. Labs’ newest creation, called Rainbow, l...
3G Mobile Internet Comes to Mount Everest
Nepali mobile network operator Ncell has installed the first 3G base station at the summit of Mount Everest, giving visitors, climbers and people living in t...
Google Instant’s Blacklisted Words
Google search engine’s latest innovation technology that allows users to search for information in real time does not come without its own challenges. For ex...
Microsoft Office 2011 out for Mac
Software Magazine: Microsoft has launched the Apple version of its productivity suite, the Microsoft Office 2011. The package comes with a new version of Mic...
GNOME Developers Attack Canonical’s Ubuntu Decision
Many Ubuntu users will undoubtedly have strong opinions on Canonical’s recent proposal to replace the GNOME desktop with Unity in the Ubuntu 11.04 release. ...
Mozilla delays Firefox 4 until 2011
Firefox is slipping in its development schedule; Mozilla says it won’t be able to release version 4.0 this year, and will have to delay the final version unt...
Zynga now valued at $5.51 billion, more than Electronic Arts
SharesPost has valued Farmville developer Zynga Game Network at $5.51 billion, according to Business Week. That means it is now estimated to be bigger than c...
Adobe confirms Flash 10.1 coming to everything but iPhone
At its MAX conference, Adobe not only announced Air 2.5 for phones, tablets, and TVs but it also confirmed that it would be bringing Flash Player 10.1 to Mic...
Windows 7 SP1 RC released
Microsoft has announced the launch of the Release Candidate version of Windows 7 Service Pack 1, the last test version prior to its official release.
Google CEO: Don’t Like ‘Street View’? Move
In a CNN interview Monday, Google CEO Eric Schmidt responded to questions about what Google knows about people by saying that if people don’t like having the...
Russian government decides to develop Windows alternative
The Russian government is no longer comfortable being dependent on the Windows operating system, and has thus decided to create its own flavor of Linux for i...
Want a free Google TV? Tell Google you’re a Web developer
Google knows it’s going to have a tough time convincing users to switch to its TV platform. As a result, over the next few weeks, the search giant is handing...
New Trojan Virus Attacks Mac Computers Via Social Networking Sites
Mac: Hi PC, I’m not feeling so hot today… ** **PC: Oh, I know ALL about that. I think you have a virus!
Facebook Credits to be Sold at Walmart and Best Buy
Mashable: There’s a new stocking stuffer for the social gamer on your holiday shopping list: Facebook Credits.
VLC Media Player Now Available for iPhone
VLC Media Player, an app that lets you watch videos in several formats that aren’t natively supported by the iPhone, has arrived in Apple’s iTunes store.
Google Finally Upgrades Feedburner
Believe it or not, Google hasn’t forgotten about Feedburner. The RSS feed service has received an experimental new interface that better matches Google Analy...
Web filtering: are employees offended?
Paul Mah, on the ITBusiness Edge blog, reported on GFI’s September survey of web filtering practices in small and medium businesses and got some interesting ...
Firesheep: who is eating my cookies?
Internet is great, and everyday millions of people spend their day surfing it, using Google, Gmail, Youtube, Twitter, Facebook, etc. Some people buy at ebay,...
When technology fails
I love computers and technology in general. Actually, I am an advocate of technology and I try to push high tech solution whenever that makes sense.
Spam from the Advocate
Currently cyber criminals try to make fast money by spamming out emails in masses in Germany which allegedly stem from an Advocate specialized in copyright. ...
Connect Any Wi-Fi Device to Any Other Wi-Fi Device with Wi-Fi Direct
Mashable: The Wi-Fi Alliance is about to drop a wireless connectivity bombshell called Wi-Fi Direct. It will enable device-to-device connections using curren...
Nokia N900 PR 1.3 Firmware Now Available
Well in time for the MeeGo Conference next month, Nokia has just started the rollout of the all new PR 1.3 firmware (v20.2010.36-2) for the N900. The update ...
Facebook exceeds 500,000,000 users
Last night Facebook announced that it had over 500 000 000 users.
Microsoft CEO: next Windows release is "riskiest product bet"
Windows 7 might be selling like hotcakes but that’s only going to make it even harder for Microsoft to top. When asked about the riskiest product bet that th...
MySpace moves against apps who share user data
New York (CNN) — Social networking site MySpace, while acknowledging it shares profile information with advertisers, said Saturday that it is taking action a...
Google’s Spam Report Extension
If you want to improve Google’s results and report spammy web pages, there’s a Chrome extension for you.Google Webspam Report adds a link next to each Google...
Windows XP no longer allowed on PCs, Windows 7 turns one
Today is a very important day for Microsoft: it’s the first day that Windows XP can no longer be bundled on new PCs and it’s also the first anniversary of th...
Reuters: Google says its cars grabbed email and passwords
(Reuters) – Google Inc said its “Street View” cars around the world accidentally collected more personal data than previously disclosed, and that it was chan...
Desktop Linux: The Dream Is Dead
The author of this article seems to think Linux in the desktop is dead, with so many missed opportunities, especially during the failure of Windows Vista, th...
Western Digital Caviar Green 3TB Hard Drive
Rules were made to be broken; that whole 55 MPH thing happens to be my favorite. Western Digital had larger aspirations; the kinds that considered milestones...
Apple To Remove Java from Mac OS X?
After the news that the new MacBook Airs do not ship with Flash pre-installed (which is news considering Flash has been part of Mac OS X for a very long time...
Windows 7 year one – 240 million licenses sold
Windows 7 turns one year old and obviously Microsoft felt the need to once again brag with the performance of its latest operating system. And it can really ...
Domain name Sex.com sells for $13 million
Escom LLC has sold the controversial domain name Sex.com for $13 million, according to The Register. Documents filed in a California court say that the domai...
12Seconds.com shutdown :-(
Last mail I got from 12Seconds.com:
Facebook touts encryption as solution to security flaw
Facebook has proposed a solution to a recent security flaw that allowed apps to transmit personal data that involves encrypting the relevant string of number...
Google News Shows the Number of Shared Links
Google News continues to integrate with Twitter and other micro blogging services. After testing a section that shows newsworthy tweets from your subscriptio...
Google Docs Adds Drag-and-Drop Image Upload
Google Docs adds a feature that’s already available in Gmail: you can now upload images using drag and drop. Open a new document and drag an image from your ...
Creating stronger privacy controls inside Google
Google Official Blog:
Zynga sued in privacy breach controversy
218 million “class members” probably won’t settle for Farmville dollar
Defensive Computing
Windows is an attractive platform for the malware writers, in part, because of the sheer number of users. As Microsoft creep towards making their offerings m...
Use Windows 7 Event Viewer to track down issues that cause slower boot times
In this edition of the Windows Desktop Report, Greg Shultz shows you how to use some of the new features in Windows 7’s Event Viewer to investigate boot time...
PCWorld links to scareware
I was reading an article on PCWorld’s website about the upcoming Google Chrome OS:
Facebook Launches Drag-and-Drop Photos [VIDEO]
Facebook continues its quest to revamp its popular Photos feature with the launch of the number one most requested feature of them all: drag-and-drop...
Download Winamp for Android [Beta]
My favorite music player in old days ‘Winamp’ has now released its official app (currently in Beta) for Android devices. The app is available as a free downl...
Google Broadband Gets Its First Trial
Google’s ultra high speed fiber network — which the company says can offer speeds of up to 1 gigabit per second — is about to get its first trial outside of ...
244,000 Germans Opt Out of Google Mapping Service
BERLIN — Google on Thursday said 244,000 people in Germany had asked the company to remove images of their houses and apartments from its Street View maps, b...
Man cops to botnet-fueled pump-and-dump scheme
An Arizona computer specialist has admitted taking part in a conspiracy that used large networks of compromised computers to inflate the value of stocks so t...
FaceTime for Mac OS X Has a Serious Security Flaw
A German source is signaling that those who haven’t downloaded FaceTime for Mac just yet may want to hold back on the desire to video chat with their iPhone-...
Facebook Disconnect: A Chrome extension that puts Facebook in its place
A new extension, called Facebook Disconnect, blocks contact between your browser and Facebook’s servers when you’re browsing the regular Web. Facebook Discon...
Panda Security Launches Panda Antivirus for Mac
Panda Security has announced the launch of Panda Antivirus for Mac. This new solution delivers comprehensive protection against malware affecting Mac OS and ...
Are You Smarter Than John?
How not to manage your passwords…
Judge Clears CAPTCHA-Breaking Case for Criminal Trial
A federal judge in New Jersey has cleared the way for a landmark criminal case targeting CAPTCHA circumvention to proceed to trial.
Predator Software Pirated?
This isn’t good:
Malware Pushers Abuse Firefox Warning Page
This is a pretty neat attack from the malware pushes leveraging on the ignorance of the average user – which in all honestly is a safe bet most of the time! ...
Developers now able to author, upload and share extensions for Opera 11 [Screenshot]
Opera today released the first alpha of Opera 11, the next version of the company’s award-winning desktop web browser. Opera 11 is the first Opera browser to...
Firefox 3.6.11 and 3.5.14 security updates now available
Firefox 3.6.11 and Firefox 3.5.14 are now available as free downloads for Windows, Mac, and Linux from http://firefox.com. As always, we recommend that users...
Get keyboard shotcuts to move Firefox tabs!
A quick and powerful upgrade for your Firefox shortcut mastery: Move Tabs.
Apple launches MacBook Air laptop
Apple is cashing in on the popularity of its iPhone and iPad to boost demand for its oldest product, the Macintosh.
Java surpasses Adobe kit as most attacked software
Researcher sees ‘unprecedented wave of Java exploitation’
Google ditches all Street View Wi-Fi scanning
Google has no plans to resume using its Street View cars to collect information about the location of Wi-Fi networks, a practice that led to a flurry of priv...
Hacked Kaspersky Download Site Directs Users to Fake Antivirus
Kaspersky Lab now admits that people attempting to buy Kaspersky’s security products on Oct. 17 were redirected by hackers to a scareware site with links to ...
Operation Payback takes down UK IP office
HAVOC CAUSING hacker activist group Operation Payback has extended its reach and strangled the life out of the UK Intellectual Property Office’s website.
Turkish hackers attack CDU websites
Two regional websites for Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU) were hacked on Tuesday by unknown perpetrators claiming to be Turkish followin...
Google Chrome Stable Channel Update
Google Chrome 7.0.517.41 has been released to the stable and beta channels for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Updates from the previous stable release include:
Intel investing up to $8 billion in 22nm chips, creating US jobs
Intel has announced plans to invest between $6 billion and $8 billion on its next-generation 22nm manufacturing process across several existing US factories ...
Thunderbird 3.1.5 and 3.0.9 Updates Are Now Available
Thunderbird 3.1.5 and Thunderbird 3.0.9 updates are now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux for free download from www.GetThunderbird.com. These releases m...
Thief Steals Laptop, Returns Data on USB Stick
A university professor in Sweden has “hope for humanity” after the thief who stole his laptop backed up all his data and mailed it to him on a USB stick.
Does Apple want to buy Facebook?
Peter Kafka at All Things Digital thinks that Steve Jobs might want to buy Facebook. His reasoning is that Jobs, when asked what Apple plans to do with its n...
Internet about to hit 2 billion users
If the internet is feeling a little more crowded these days, there’s good reason.
Microsoft bets to win in the cloud and rival Google
Microsoft has ramped up its battle with Google in wooing business customers with its next generation cloud-based product.
Copy machines spill identity secrets
Personal information scanned into certain digital photocopier hard drives can be easily tapped, according to a CBC News investigation probing the second-life...
First 360° video on Youtube, ever!!!
Today Doritos Late Night presented the first 360 degree musicvideo on youtube. It’s the musicvideo of Professor Green with his latest hit: “Coming to get me”...
Steve Jobs on Android’s Fragmentation
Apple’s CEO says that Android is fragmented and that the open vs. closed dilemma is not important as long as Apple’s proprietary mobile operating system mana...
Implantable LEDs Can Really Get Under Your Skin
Maybe your main problem with tattoos is probably the fact that you’ve never been able to play Pong on them. But those problems seem to be over now that an in...
Less than 5% of IPv4 addresses left says NRO
In late January, the Number Resource Organization (NRO) warned that IPv4 addresses were drying up, with less than 10% unallocated — a figure that has shrunk ...
Google CEO Eric Schmidt trash talks Windows 7
Google just took a jab at Microsoft. Oh, the search giant already did that last week, and it wasn’t the first time? Yes, you’re right, but now it’s Google CE...
Radeon HD 6870, 6850 break cover
The time for rumors and speculations is drawing to a close—as far as AMD’s upcoming Radeon HD 6850 and 6870 are concerned, at least. These two next-generatio...
Steve Jobs: Google Android isn’t really that open
Apple’s chief executive, Steve Jobs, said that Google’s mobile platform was “fragmented” and bad for developers and consumers.
Sony and Google Launch Internet Television Sets
Google is set to expand into television production by joining forces with Sony to release new TV sets that allow viewers to browse the Internet. The high-def...
Acrobat X is Here!
The New Acrobat X is finally here!
Facebook Privacy Issues – again
Media report about a new privacy leak on Facebook which has been found just recently. It is possible to find out with which persons someone is in contact wit...
Fake Twitter homepage kit serves up naked ladies and infection files
You might be wondering why the frontpage of Twitter has a big “Edit” line running through it in the screenshot below:
Avira know better what to put and where
Sometimes we encounter childish messages from the authors in the body of malware. A variant of the TDSS family we got recently is even going a step further b...
RealPlayer Security Updates Published
RealNetworks, Inc. have published product upgrades addressing vulnerabilities in RealPlayer SP 1.1.4 and earlier.
New Likejacking-Attack on Facebook
Currently a new likejacking-attack is running on Facebook. If a user clicks on the link of a friend which is reads “I Will NEVER TEXT Again After Seeing THIS...
Yahoo Mimics Facebook Connect With “Y Connect”
Yahoo will soon launch a service called “Y Connect” with features very similar to those of Facebook Connect — portable identity management, integrating Yahoo...
Intel quietly lowers prices on Core i3-550, others
Intel regularly tweaks its price list with nary a word to the masses, but the Tech Report caught chipzilla red-handed this time. The site reports that Intel ...
NVidia Forceware drivers 260.89 offer Blu-ray 3D support
Just last week NVidia distributed a beta version of their Forceware drivers 260.89. The main feature was support for their recently launched GeForce GT 430, ...
Facebook Privacy Breach: Users’ Info Leaked To Advertising, Tracking Firms
The information being transmitted is one of Facebook’s basic building blocks: the unique “Facebook ID” number assigned to every user on the site. Since a Fac...
Facebook apps transmitted personal info
NEW YORK — The Wall Street Journal is reporting that 10 popular Facebook applications have been transmitting users’ personal identifying information to dozen...
NVidia launches GT440 cards
While NVidia’s big news may have been its upcoming budget-range GeForce GT 430 1GB cards which leaked out earlier this month, it seems that the company has b...
Hackers Access 107K Student Records At UNFL
The good news is that overseas hackers apparently did not change the grades of more then 100 thousand University of North Florida students when they broke in...
Google’s First Personalized Doodle
Google found a nice way to wish you Happy Birthday. If you visit Google’s homepage when you are signed in and it’s your birthday, you’ll see a special doodle...
Facebook and Skype deal to dial friends and family
Skype is integrating with Facebook to make it easier to call and video chat with friends and family on the social network.
Install Adobe AIR on 64-bit Ubuntu 10.10
Right now Adobe AIR is only officially available for 32-bit Linux. But it does work on 64-bit Linux with the 32-bit compatibility libraries. There are severa...
First Firmware for Nokia C7 V12.003 released
Nokia released its first major firmware for Nokia C7 (RM 675) for all Versions.
Facebook: Giving You More Control?
Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, has announced on their blog that the site will soon be offering new features and controls. The features include New Facebook G...
Gene Simmons Websites Taken Down By Hackers
Some people didn’t like his comments about downloading…
ZeuS baddies copy Conficker tactics
Variants of the infamous ZeuS cybercrime toolkit have begun using the tactics of the infamous Conficker worm in a bid to get ahead of security defences.
Opera announces last 10.70 build; Opera 11, complete with browser extensions, comes next
Very soon, the first build of Opera 11 will be released, and with it will come the long-awaited support for browser extensions.
Bing will use your Facebook friends to personalize search results
Microsoft and Facebook Wednesday unveiled some new search tools for Bing which integrate data from a user’s circle of friends into Bing’s search results.
Help keep your account safe with the Gmail security checklist
Posted by Diana Phan, Gmail Support Team
Gmail Auto-unsubscribe Search
Gmail has a feature that lets you unsubscribe from a newsletter or a mailing list when you report one of the messages as spam.
Firefox is getting fast!
Firefox’s JavaScript engine, Spidermonkey (including the Tracemonkey and Jaegermonkey JITs) is now faster than Webkit’s JSCore on both Sunspider and V8. Grea...
about:support
Welcome to our first release of the new Mozilla about:support add-on.
Windows Phone 7 Officially Launches – Updates!
Windows Phone 7 officially launched 11Oct at a press event in NYC Monday morning. You can check out more here – http://www.windowsphone7.com
CyberLink YouMemo with Windows Touch
Do you have a family bulletin board? Leave notes on the refrigerator with to-do’s and reminders? CyberLink YouMemo lets you move all that on to your PC with ...
Club Coee on Windows
I received a recommendation to check out Club Cooee. It takes the internet chat room to the next level in 3D rooms. You can run Club Cooee like a regular app...
Adobe AIR for Android Now Available!
As predicted Adobe AIR for Android is now available in the Android Market. Go get it.
Facebook Introduces Disposable Passwords
Accessing Facebook from a public computer or Internet cafe can now be done more securely.
Fake Stuxnet cleaner literally cleans up your computer
W32.Stuxnet has been a subject of much discussion amongst security researchers and media, and we posted a series of blogs on the subject. As you may already ...
Chrome 8 Hits Dev Channel with GPU Acceleration, More Labs Offerings
Windows/Mac/Linux: Chrome has hit version 8 in its Dev builds, adding more solid graphics acceleration to the web using your video hardware, along with a few...
Pooh Bear? No, this is Redpoo and he’s out to scam you
Some domain names make you cringe, some make you smile…
Microsoft fixes 49 vulnerabilities
As announced last Friday, Microsoft released 16 security bulletins on the October Patchday. They fix security vulnerabilities in various Windows operating sy...
Buggy Paypal phishing
Usually I have to wonder how much inventiveness the spammers and Phishers show. But, from time to time, it is funny to see some really stupid Phishing attemp...
Online pharmacy spam campaign faking Twitter
During the weekend our spamtraps received large amounts of emails pretending to come from Twitter. This time, the social engineering twist lies within the su...
Another record Patchday ahead
The Redmond company today announced that it plans to release 16 security bulletins on coming Tuesday, Microsoft’s official monthly Patchday in October. Never...
“This offer is available TODAY only!!!”
Hmmm. That’s not what the source code says
Twitter password phishing
Our friend in the UK got this via a contact. It was from a Twitterer who obviously had his Twitter login stolen:
Facebook spammer fined $1 billion USD
How does one say in French: “We’re gonna make an example out of you, boy”
Adobe fixes Reader and Acrobat
Adobe just released Reader and Acrobat version 9.4. The new release fixes some critical vulnerabilities which allow attackers to infect PCs – for example, ju...
Stuxnet Questions and Answers
Stuxnet continues to be a hot topic. Here are answers to some of the questions we’ve received.
Windows Live Essentials 2011 is available!
Windows Live Essentials 2011 is now out of beta.
Messages from Malware authors in Malware
During our analysis of the different malware families we sometimes stumble upon some messages inside the viruses placed there by their authors. For example, ...
Stuxnet in the news
The Stuxnet Trojan is very well covered in the media as more and more details about its sophisticated code become public. It abuses four previously unknown s...
Google offers to turn off threading in Gmail
Google has finally decided to allow users to turn off the controversial ‘conversation view’ threading functionality in Gmail.
Xmarks service ends January 2011
Xmarks will be shutting down free browser synchronization services on January 10, 2011. For details on how to transition to recommended alternatives, consult...
Microsoft Kills Live Space blogs
Microsoft announced that it has collaborated with WordPress and now onwards it will be the default blogging platform for Windows Live users. This means Micro...
Browser cookies are becoming an issue
The New York Times is reporting a rising number of law suits against some major players because of their use of persistent web tracking:
More Spam with JavaScript redirectors
We received new spam emails which contain a JavaScript redirector in form of a HTML attachment. The emails we received have the subject “Consultation Appoint...
Twitter XSS getting abused
On Twitter a new security flaw gets currently exploited. Hackers found a way to inject malicious JavaScript code into tweets with the onMouseOver event. This...
Flash Player Updates fix 0-day-vulnerability
Adobe fixed the vulnerability in Flash Player in a record time again. Just one week after the 0-day became public and started to get exploited, an update is ...
Scammers set their sights on Resident Evil: Afterlife
Resident Evil. Man, those films are terrible.
Security issues on Android
One unique security feature of Android is the permission check when installing 3rd party apps. The system lists all permissions that an app requires and asks...
Browser Updates, again
Google released version 6.0.472.59 of its Chrome web browser. It fixes 10 security vulnerabilities; 1 is only affecting Mac OS X and critical, 6 are rated “h...
New phishing-spam waves using Facebook as bait
We have started to see again a large increase in the amount of emails pretending to come from Facebook. There are two types of emails which are being sent in...
The Anti-Botnet Initiative
The Anti-Botnet Initiative has now been started. The initiative is a cooperation of eco and The German Federal Bureau for Information Security (BSI) and has ...
“Here you have” worm linked to cyber jihadists
A worm collectively dubbed by the security industry as the “Here you have worm” has been making its way onto corporate networks over the past 24 hours. The ...
New 0-day Exploit for Adobe Reader
A malicious PDF file has turned up which exploits a new security vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Acrobat – even in the most current version 9.3.4 and 8.2.4...
Browser Updates
The Mozilla foundation just released the popular web browser Firefox in version 3.6.9. The new version fixes overall 14 security vulnerabilities of which 10 ...
Mitigation for Windows Applications DLL-Search-Path Vulnerabilities
A whole bunch of Windows applications is vulnerable to a so-called binary-planting attack which allows for remote code execution. Microsoft released a securi...
This could save your LIFE!
The following internet advice which may have a subject title such as above could just get you killed.
Malicious warez site offers Firefox 4.0 beta download scam
Like a lot of seedy stuff, this started with a Twitter post:.
The bad guys are going after the Pirates
File-sharing organization Pirate Bay has been controversial for a long time, like maybe the length of its entire existence. It’s been in the news recently...
Microsoft releases work-around tool for DLL loading vulnerability
Microsoft has posted an advisory that explains the “DLL preloading attacks” and offers a work-around tool that “allows customers to disable the loading of li...
How to Get Hacked on Facebook
One of the most common scenarios we observe on a daily basis are users coaxed into phishing campaigns and malicious applications on Facebook. As we interact...
Facebook login phishing
Here’s one of the latest Facebook phish attempts: videos of “beautifull” girls:
DLL Hijacking Evolved
Back in November 2007, I’ve seen this technique used by one of the variant of Worm called W32/Drom. The technique was not to execute the malicious file or co...
Brand new 0-day Exploit. The world is going to end! Yet again…
Sigh… The latest “exploit” that affects hundreds of programs and will be the end of the world as we currently know it is actually a well documented feature o...
Facebook Dislike button scam spreads virally
Have you seen a message like this on Facebook?
Facebook Refreshes Notes Application
Until now, Facebook Notes has only supported text formatting through HTML, making formatting a challenging task for the majority of the site’s 500 million m...
How to Install LNK Update (KB2286198) on Windows XP SP2
Microsoft discontinued support for Windows XP Service Pack 2 on July 13th, and that means there is no SP2 update for the recent LNK shortcut vulnerability (K...
Two Steps Away from a Free iPad
Honestly, how many times have you won free stuff by clicking on links? And no… those spam, trojan, and spyware do not count as free stuff.
Worried about Adobe’s malware vulnerability then secure your Adobe Reader
It should go without saying that the best way to deal with malware is of course, not to get infected in the first place.
My “friend” has invited me “to Twitter!”
“What are you doing? “To join or to see who invited you, check the attachment.”
Toy Story 3: Woody’s Roundup of Scams and Fakeouts
Toy Story 3 is romping across cinemas Worldwide, and rightly so – it’s the best of the series by far. I thought it might be worth pointing out that being a p...
What’s in a (rogue) name? VirusTotal 2010
There is a well-respected and very useful site that everyone in the anti-virus industry uses – sometimes several times a day: Virus Total. You can upload sus...
A little note to the guys at ESET
Alert reader Joe Fernandez over at the MalwareUp forum (http://malwareup.org) sent us a tip on this one. He was checking out the scripting in a rogue securit...
Warning on Facebook worm "FBHOLE"
There’s a new Facebook worm out there. However, it doesn’t seem to be doing anything else than posting a message to people’s Facebook walls.
LifeLock’s CEO Davis was victim of ID theft 13 times
The Phoenix New Times has reported that the CEO of LifeLock ID theft protection service of Tempe, Ariz., has had his identity used by rip-off artists 13 time...
Exploding laptop battery dept.: HP widens recall
Hewlett-Packard has announced it has expanded the May 14, 2009, recall of its laptop battery packs. The company will replace the defective batteries at no co...
Google Introduces Google TV – Video
On the 2nd day at Google I/O 2010 developer event, Google has announced Android 2.2 with Flash along with Google TV, a new technology for television and Inte...
XP (SP2) support ends July 13
If you’ve been squeezing the last bit of value out of that installation of Windows XP Service Pack 2 or are continuing to run it because of proprietary softw...
The Pirate Bay to RIAA: We Are Unsinkable
Yesterday, the Pirate Bay went down following pressure from the RIAA, which threatened to slap TPB’s hosting provider with huge fines.
Is Google Building a Skype Competitor?
Google announced today that it has made a cash offer to acquire Global IP Solutions (GIPS).
Google Chrome Version 6 in the Works
Not one to rest on its laurels, the Google Chrome team is hard at work on Chrome 6. The official move to the 6.0 designation in the Chromium developer build...
Prince of Persia Comes to iPhone, Retro-Style
Right now, the words “Prince of Persia” probably make you think of muscular Jake Gyllenhaal jumping from building to building. The video game the movie is b...
Pakistan Blocks Facebook Over Caricatures of Prophet Muhammad
A Pakistani court has ordered the authorities to temporarily block Facebook due to a contest that calls for caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.
New Canon Portable Scanner Lets You Scan Directly to Evernote
Canon has just released a Mac version of its popular image and document scanner, the imageFORMULA P-150M, complete with built-in support for the popular org...
Yahoo acquires an army of 380,000 freelance journalists with Associated Content buy
Yesterday, Yahoo! Inc. announced it would be acquiring Associated Content Inc., and the transaction would cost the search company an estimated $100 million.
Skype 5.0 beta brings five-way video chat
Video chatting is on the rise. Yesterday, we got to take a look at Qik’s mobile video chat client for the Sprint EVO 4G, and today, we get to take a look at...
Google: Oops…our Street View cars also saw websites you were visiting
Google today said it will stop collecting Wi-Fi network data from its Street View cars, after an investigation from the German Data Protection Authority (DP...
Russian ISP hosting Zbot C&C servers is taken down
Russian-based PROXIEZ-NET, which was known to allegedly host 13 Zbot command-and-control servers has been shut down by its upstream provider DIGERNET, accord...
Facebook says it will make privacy settings easier
The All Facebook blog (not an official Facebook site) is reporting that Facebook’s Public Policy Director, Tim Sparapani has said the company will install pr...
SEO poisoning: Rima Fakih photos
You might avoid looking for photos of Miss USA Rima Fakih for a while. There is a controversy about a certain pole-dancing incident in her past that is stirr...
Flash forward: Can Adobe leave Apple behind in the dust?
Flash, sharply rejected by Jobs and Company, has moved on to Apple’s competitors, hoping for a warm welcome and the promise of a place in the mobile market....
MySpace revamps privacy settings to counter Facebook’s muddled set of options
Facebook grew more popular than Myspace just about two years ago, and has been been enjoying steady growth while MySpace flounders trying to reinvent itself.
If you think Facebook privacy is so bad, the open Web is worse
It seems like anyone who wants to be anybody is whacking Facebook over its loose — or rather loosening — privacy policies. Earlier this month, with disregard...
New Hotmail lets you add bigger attachments, organize your inbox, edit documents
I’m constantly reminded how slow email actually is.
Amazon announces Kindle for Android, a new hope dawns for Android tablets against the iPad
Kindle is, without a doubt, the highest profile e-reader platform running. With applications on iPhone, iPad, BlackBerry, Windows, and OS X as well as its ow...
Data Google skimmed with street view cars gets destroyed in Ireland, but that’s not good enough for Germany
Last Friday, Google announced that its Street View cars had accidentally collected private data from unencrypted Wi-Fi networks while making their rounds, an...
iPad isn’t for everyone, so deal with it
Thirty-two days ago, I purchased Apple’s iPad, after proclaiming that I wouldn’t. A gadget like this one should be tested if repeatedly blogged about. I woul...
Bogus is one way to describe Microsoft’s patent claims against Salesforce.com
Three words sum up Microsoft’s patent infringement suit against Salesforce.com: Competition by litigation. Microsoft knows plenty about competition by litiga...
Patch Tuesday – Minor movements…
Hey Admins…. It’s that time again. The second Tuesday is upon us and May so far hasn’t been demanding as far as patching goes.
WordPress and PHP-based management systems under attack?
A variety of sources are reporting that blog hosting sites with WordPress-created sites and php-based management systems such as Zen Care eCommerce are being...
Could Twitter Data Replace Opinion Polls? [STUDY]
A new study from Carnegie Mellon University shows that analyzing data from Twitter yields the same results as conducting a public opinion poll.
Facebook’s Social Plugins Now on 100,000+ Sites
Despite ongoing questions about privacy, Facebook’s new social plugins continue to expand their footprint across the web, with the company announcing on Tue...
Playboy to Publish Naked 3D Centerfold
“What would people most like to see in 3D? Probably a naked lady.” Those are the words of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, whose magazine will soon include a ce...
Foursquare Tries to Show You More Relevant “Places”
Foursquare is moving to make the list of “Places” one sees when one loads one’s mobile app of choice more relevant.
Facebook Gets a Useful Unofficial iPad App
We need a native iPad app for Facebook but until Facebook HQ gets around to making one, the next best thing has just arrived via social media aggregator sob...
Celebritweets Theater Brings the Melodramas of Twitter to Life [VIDEO]
We know, we know — you don’t give a damn about celebrities and what they’re tweeting about (neither do we — especially when they’re narcissistically freakin...
Credit Card Scanner Square Comes to iPhone
Square is a mobile credit card transaction application founded by Jack Dorsey of Twitter fame. The app became available for the iPad about one month ago, an...
What about the WiMAX networks that aren’t Sprint/Clearwire?
With Clearwire and Sprint pushing for mobile WiMAX coverage in 80 U.S. markets by the end of 2010, and promising three new WiMAX-powered smartphones in the n...
Blippy Competitor Swipely Raises $7.5M in Funding
<img title=”230/365 Macro Monday Theme: Life is Hard</p> Credit cards and debt make life hard. It seems so easy at the time, but after time, you rea...
Like Google and Nokia, Microsoft starts to offer free navigation for its phones
Google began offering free turn-by-turn navigation with Android 2.0 in late 2009, and Nokia announced at the beginning of 2010 that Ovi Maps navigation woul...
Virtualization and the cloud team up: VMware with Salesforce.com
Last week, VMware and Salesforce.com announced a new partnership around VMforce, a Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering aimed at enterprise Java developers...
First Non-Latin, International Domain Names Finally Launch
The first significant change to Internet domain names in many years was made today when ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) approved...
Google Goggles Now Translates Text in Photos
In February we learned that a future version of Google Googles would translate text in photos. The future is here — Google Goggles v.1.1 for Android 1.6 and...
Facebook Status Updates Show Which Countries Are Happiest
Facebook has extended its “Gross National Happiness” prototype app to 18 new countries. The app analyzes words in status updates like “awesome” or “tragic” ...
Facebook Adding Location Features This Month [REPORT]
Information has leaked that Facebook is set to roll out location-based features for users and brands as soon as this month. According to Advertising Age, us...
The first international non-Latin top level domains go live
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has finally begun to enable top-level domain names based on non-Latin alphabets. The first th...
More Fallout at Digg: 10% of Staff Laid Off
Social news site Digg has just laid off 10% of its staff according to a representative from the company. The move comes a month after Jay Adelson’s sudden d...
Steve Jobs on iPad Printing: It Will Come
Lately, it’s not that hard to get a direct answer to your query from Steve Jobs himself; he responds to burning questions via e-mail quite often.
Wi-Fi at 60 GHz Will Be 10 Times Faster
The Wi-Fi Alliance and the Wireless Gigabit Alliance have reached an agreement to set up standards for Wi-Fi to operate in the previously unclaimed 60 GHz f...
International iPad Pre-Orders Are Live
Just as Apple promised last week, international iPad pre-orders are underway as of today.
Foursquare Exceeds 40 Million Checkins
Location-based social network Foursquare counted its 40 millionth checkin a “couple days ago,” according to a tweet from one of its developers.
Android Now Outselling iPhone [REPORT]
Smartphones carrying Google’s Android operating system outsold the iPhone in the first quarter of 2010, according to new research out today from NPD.
WiGig publishes 7 Gbps wireless home networking spec
Exactly one year after making its public debut, the Wireless Gigabit Alliance has published its spec for the unlicensed 60 GHz band, which it is pushing as a...
Facebook Board Member’s Account Hacked
Even Facebook board members are not immune to phishing attacks. On Saturday, Jim Breyer of Accel Partners became the latest victim when his account was used...
Firefox 4 Plans: Faster, Friendlier, More Secure
Almost one year ago, we’ve gotten a glimpse of the next major iteration of Firefox, at least when it comes to its gorgeous new visuals.
IBM Debuts New Social Media Analytics Tool
Today, IBM is introducing a new social media monitoring tool, one that it says will measure consumer sentiment from data gathered on Twitter, blogs and othe...
Feds in U.S. announce 30 convictions for $143 M in counterfeit Cisco hardware
The U.S. Department of Justice has announced that federal agencies have made 700 seizures of counterfeit Cisco hardware worth more than $143 million in the l...
Surveys: young adults getting more privacy-aware on Internet
The University of California, Berkeley, has found that more than half young adults have become more aware of Internet privacy issues than they were five year...
Apple Confirms AT&T Has iPhone Exclusivity Until 2012
It was speculative before given the lack of independent confirmation, but now apparently Apple has gone on record to confirm that the original deal signed w...
Sprint Drops Plan to Offer Google’s Nexus One
Although Google announced only last month that Sprint would carry its Nexus One phone, the carrier has since retracted from that plan.
AT&T, Verizon stand against FCC’s ‘Third Way,’ Sprint on the fence
With Congress’ dance card already overflowing with major social and policy reforms, including in the financial sector, the likelihood that it could pass a m...
Maxed out in financial software, Intuit jumps into healthcare with $91m buy of Medfusion
Last week, we took a look at Mint’s new app for Android, which lets users track their finances and budget on their mobile device in a safe, read-only app. Mi...
Showtime Subscribers Might Get Online TV Service
Premium cable TV channel Showtime plans to launch a service that will stream episodes of original series like Weeds, The Tudors and Californication to subsc...
Skype to Introduce Ads?
As Skype prepares to roll out five-way video calling this week — an addition the company plans to charge for at a later date — it’s also thinking of monetiz...
The Semantic Web: What It Is and Why It Matters [VIDEO]
If you’ve ever struggled to make sense of terms like “semantic web,” we’ve got a fascinating, entertaining and informative video for you.
New MacBook Air Might Arrive Tomorrow [RUMOR]
According to Australian Macworld, a new version of the MacBook Air may show up in the Apple Online Store tomorrow morning. The same source who correctly pre...
WordPress 3.0: The 5 Most Important New Features
Brian Casel is a web designer and owner of ThemeJam WordPress Themes and CasJam Media. You can follow Brian on his blog at briancasel.com or on Twitter @Cas...
What does PHP stand for? Probable Hacked Page?
Late last week, the wires were buzzing over news that the official site of PHP-Nuke “Professional Content Management System“ was serving malware. I am frankl...
Microsoft’s Project Natal to Launch in October
Microsoft’s upcoming Project Natal is a full-body motion controller, promising an incredibly immersive gaming experience and biting into the market first ta...
Whoops – Twitter got hacked again
I had a look at my twitter page early this morning and read “Twitter is a rich source of insanity”, and thought “Wow, the twitter marketroids are really bold...
Notetaking Tool Evernote Reaches 3 Million User Mark
Demand for Evernote’s notetaking tool is growing at an ever increasing rate. The startup has just surpassed three million users, which means the company has...
How To Know Whether Your iPhone Has New or Old Bootroom
Jailbreaking and Unlocking with iPhone is fun, but these days apple is trying to make people life harder by introducing new changes in iPhone hardware and so...
Buddy Media Helps Marketers Take Advantage of Facebook’s New “Likes”
Buddy Media already helps big brands do more with their Facebook presence. Today the company is extending its service to include Facebook Open Graph integra...
Gmail Gets Its Name Back in the UK
In the UK, Google was forced to give its email service Gmail a different name, Googlemail, because of a trademark dispute. These disputes take a long time (...
iPad Gets the Microwave Treatment
Poor iPad. It’s only been on the market for a month, and it’s already been crashed to bits with a baseball bat, blended and generally abused in every possib...
Dropbox Updates App With Slick iPad Support
If you’re a fan of cloud storage service Dropbox and own an iPad, it’s your lucky day. The iPhone version was already quite good, but Dropbox have now updat...
48% of Parents Friend Their Kids on Facebook [STATS]
When consumer electronics shopping site Retrevo prepared for Mother’s Day by conducting a survey of parents’ social media practices, it found that nearly ha...
Google tells which versions of Android are most common
The Android Team today published a snapshot of the platform which shows the versions of Android most commonly in use. Though the platform is frequently crit...
PayPal Phish
PayPal users are at risk of getting their credentials stolen if they follow instructions given in a scam email.
I Want an ATM Card
When I was a child, I was fascinated by ATM machines. I had a savings account which my mother would deposit money regularly and I waited for the day that I c...
A Virus Is Coming! Tell All Your Friends!
Email hoaxes are nothing new, dating back at least as far as 1994 with what is widely believed to have been the first email hoax—referred to as the “Goodtime...
IE losing market share, Chrome gaining
For the first time, Microsoft’s share of the browser marked has slipped below 60 percent, according to figures from Net Applications, a Aliso Viejo, Calif., ...
“Today Show” Launches 2-Minute Daily Web Video
Another mainstream media outlet is dipping their toes into online. “TODAY in 2 Minutes” is a new online-only feature of The Today Show.
Men in blue suits raid Gizmodo
Many bloggers and commentators are making much of the fact that San Mateo police served a search warrant on the home of Gizmodo blogger Jason Chen and confis...
Solving CAPTCHAS as cottage industry
Make big money! $.80 to $1.20 per 1,000
Why doesn’t Windows include native PDF reader support?
Dear Microsoft,
Australia’s web censorship effort put on hold
A spokesman for Australian Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has said that legislation that would set up a $120 million Internet censorship system requi...
Samsung Tries Organizing the World’s Biggest Dodgeball Game
Ah, cellphones and dodgeball, they go together like… well… they don’t really go together at all, but that’s not stopping Samsung Mobile from organizing what...
Twitter to Launch Embeddable Tweets?
A new blog post from the Twitter media team suggests that the company will launch an embeddable tweets feature sometime tomorrow.
Whoops – Treasury still hacked.
I was wrong in my earlier assessment that the three treasury websites had been cleaned… the attack site was simply tracking ip addresses, and would not serve...
A HijackThis Toolbar from Facebook?
Spam emails such as the one below have been doing the rounds on the Internet hoping to lure recipients into downloading a Facebook toolbar.
YouTube to Let Users Charge Rental Fees for Videos
YouTube’s movie rental service is still in its infancy, and it still only offers a small selection of films, but that could change quickly. YouTube exec Hun...
Second Life Users File Class Action Lawsuit Over Virtual Land
A group of Second Life users is suing Second Life’s creator over a virtual land dispute. They say their contractual property ownership rights have been chan...
Report: DOJ, FTC scuffle over scrutinizing Apple on antitrust
On a day when investors began celebrating Apple’s report of having already sold its one millionth iPad, news from this morning’s New York Post — which was th...
Facebook Users Like Sex [STATS]
Self-proclaimed social media scientist Dan Zarrella has already applied linguistic methodologies to psychologically profile Twitter users. Now he’s using th...
Another call to avoid “admin” privileges
For the second time recently, a security researcher has pointed out that running machines without administrative privileges could significantly improve secur...
Don’t play with Natural Disasters!!
We want to warn you of an email message in Spanish we’ve received with the subject ( Urgente ) Posible Terremoto y Tsunami con un 89 % de efectividad and tha...
Download Microsoft Visio 2010 Viewer
Microsoft Visio 2010 Viewer allows anyone to view Visio drawings and diagrams (created with Visio 5.0 through Visio 2010) inside Internet Explorer (versions...
Treasury website hacked
For a short while today a couple of treas.gov websites were hacked, and were reaching out to an attack site in Ukraine.
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Microsoft Asked to Make a Federal Budget Video Game
The Obama administration’s Bowles-Simpson fiscal commission has been working with Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer to make a computer game about managing the Unite...
Gmail Adds Drag-and-Drop to File Attachments
Gmail has a new feature for Firefox 3.6 and Google Chrome users: drag-and-drop file attachments. The feature is very straightforward — just drag files from y...
How much do musicians make from online music sales?
Short answer: an infinitesimally small amount.
Alyssa Milano Teaches Jimmy Kimmel How to Use Twitter
On Jimmy Kimmel Live 2 nights ago, Jimmy asked guest Alyssa Milano to explain Twitter and hashtags to him. In the video below, Alyssa explains that she tweet...
A Trojan Adding Malicious Routing Entries
Backdoor.Rohimafo is a Trojan that has several back door functions. It not only opens a back door and performs the usual functions but it also can perform so...
MySpace Upgrades Your Social Calendar
If you’re one of those people who scribbles your plans for a given week on the back of the junk mail in your purse (totally not me…), then you could probabl...
Google: 11,000 domains carrying rogue security products
Niels Provos of the Google Security Team has blogged about the rise of malicious web sites carrying rogue security products, which the Google team calls “Fak...
UK firm offers clickjacking visualization tool
UK security firm Context Information Security Ltd., is making available a browser-based tool that will demonstrate clickjacking techniques that were discusse...
That Didn’t Take Long: iPhone 4.0 Beta Jailbreak Tool Released
We suspected that the iPhone 4.0 would be nothing special compared to previous versions, at least when it comes to jailbreaking the operating system. Now, a...
Norway Uses iPad to Run the Government During Icelandic Volcano
Thousands of travelers are stranded throughout Europe as ash continues to rain down from an erupting volcano in Iceland this week. Among them is Norwegian P...
Evian’s Viral Roller Babies Jump from YouTube to TV
The lovable Evian Roller Babies, which broke the world record for the most viewed online advertisement in history last year, have made the leap from YouTube...
AP Stylebook Finally Changes “Web site” to “website”
This might not mean much if you’re not writing or editing a tech blog, but news that the AP – whose stylebook is still the standard for all things grammar a...
New iPhone to Arrive in June [RUMOR]
There has been widespread speculation about the release date of Apple’s next generation iPhone, including (yet another) report that the Verizon iPhone is fi...
Facebook Twice as Popular as Google in the Workplace
Business employees are visiting Facebook from the workplace more than any other internet site, including Google, Managed Security Services company Network B...
Apple Remains America’s Most Innovative Company
BusinessWeek and Fortune have both released their annual rankings — the 50 Most Innovative Companies and the Fortune 500, respectively — and Apple has stron...
Seesmic Founder to Twitter Naysayers: “F— You” [VIDEO]
Loic Le Meur, Seesmic founder and tech scene leader, was clearly bullish on the Twitter platform in this interview conducted yesterday at Chirp, the Twitter...
Volcanoes and disaster recovery
Dr. Johannes Ullrich at SANS brought up a good point in his morning podcast (Stormcast 296 ) about widespread transportation shutdowns and disaster recovery ...
Will Foursquare Hit One Million Members on Foursquare Day?
It’s 4/16 and for fans of the social network application Foursquare, it’s cause for celebration. All across the world, Foursquare users are celebrating Four...
Sony Ericsson Returns to Profitability
It’s no secret that Sony Ericsson has been struggling for the last couple of years. It hasn’t reported a profitable quarter since 2008 and 2009 has been esp...
Celebrate Earth Day, Dr. Seuss Style
Just in time for Earth Day, Oceanhouse Media has released two special iPhone and iPad apps based around Dr. Seuss’s classic book, The Lorax. First published...
Office 2010 releases to manufacturing, availability as soon as May 1
The first volume licensing arrangements for Microsoft Office 2010 will be made through company partners on May 1, almost two weeks earlier than expected. Th...
Facebook, YouTube are sucking enterprise bandwidth
A study of web traffic from enterprises in the first quarter of this year has shown that YouTube videos used 10 percent of bandwidth – more than any other si...
Steve Jobs Show Premieres Off Broadway Next Week
The CEO of Apple is certainly no stranger to the stage, being known for giving keynotes that typically have the effect of rendering tech geeks into little p...
Explore Space with Buzz Aldrin on Your iPhone
Astronaut Buzz Aldrin [iTunes link] has his own iPhone app, and it’s packed full of information, news, images and videos related to space exploration. It’s ...
The goats are baaaahk!
Taken from Google Official Blog:
Google Reveals the Future of Printing With Google Cloud Print
Whenever you want to print out a document, you rely on your local operating system, which must have drivers installed for each printer you intend to use. Mo...
Droid Incredible Hits Verizon on April 29
Earlier today, a staging site for the HTC Incredible was found on Verizon’s servers with information about its release date and new name. According to the s...
Subdomains defaced on The Telegraph website
The Telegraph, one of the biggest newspapers in the UK, hasn’t had a good time of it lately where their website is concerned. There were vulnerabilities foun...
Opera Mini Rules Apple’s App Store
The fact that Opera Mini was admitted to the App Store was a huge surprise, but judging from the popularity of the app, it was the right move, at least from ...
T-Mobile: After KIN, Sidekick lives on life support
Microsoft’s debut of the KIN yesterday has tech pundits talking about Microsoft’s mobile strategy, about the future of Windows Phone, and about the state of ...
Google Upgrades Its Twitter Search Features
Google’s adding an intriguing new feature to its Twitter search options –- the ability to “replay” a moment in time to see what people were tweeting about a...
RIP Windows Vista RTM
Avid readers of the Microsoft Support Lifecycle Blog (and really, how can you not be?) know that yesterday, April 13th, marked the end of support for Windows...
650,000 TV Episodes Viewed on ABC’s iPad App
Disney’s ABC television network was the first in the industry to market on the iPad with their impressive app. Downloaders can stream TV episodes free of ch...
From XSS to root: Lessons Learned From a Security Breach
In an excellent blog, the people from Apache did a very good job analyzing and documenting how a security breach happened–going through all the stages of the...
Library of Congress to Preserve Tweets for Eternity
Today the Library of Congress is announcing that it’s doing its part to digitally preserve each and every public tweet since the beginning of time … err Twi...
Twitter to Developers: Attach Any Data You Want to Tweets
Metadata has long been part of Twitter applications. Viewing conversation threads or learning about a user’s location has changed how users interact with co...
Twitter Announces User Streams to Make Apps Real-Time
Twitter has just announced a new feature and API for desktop applications: users streams. The revelation was made by Twitter’s Director of Platform Ryan Sar...
Twitter Launching “Points of Interest” to Tie Tweets to Places
Earlier this year we predicted that Twitter would use geotagging to identify physical places via Twitter, and today Evan Williams announced at the Chirp con...
Faceparty password sites really want you to click on things
“Faceparty is a UK based social networking site allowing users to create online profiles and interact with each other using forums and messaging facilities s...
Twitter Has 105 Million Registered Users
In kicking off Twitter’s Chirp developer conference, the company finally revealed its long mysterious registered user number, and it’s surprisingly large (b...
Heads up – 0day ITW – Rihanna is a lure
On April 9th, Tavis Ormandy published a proof of concept about how to use the latest version of Java to compromise a pc. You can read about it here. He notif...
German spammers broaden their repertoire
Last week we received a mass mailing that at first glance appeared no different from the usual mailbox clutter. The messages were in German and advertised an...
Download NASA Hidden Universe Theme for Windows 7
A universe filled with kaleidoscopic colors blazes across your desktop in this theme for Windows 7, revealed by the infrared imaging of NASA’s Spitzer Space ...
Please give me your username and password
Yesterday evening our spamtraps started receiving the email below in a mass mailing action. The email was immediately flagged as spam even before reaching ou...
Zipping Images and Documents – Did That Really Help?
Does anyone really care about opening a zip file to examine an RTF or JPEG file? This task—combined with a dull, unexciting, unstimulating subject line—compe...
Apple Delays International iPad Launch
If, like me, you live outside of the U.S. and you’re waiting for your chance to purchase the iPad, you’re out of luck. Apple has delayed the international l...
Barcelona vs. Real Madrid Black Hat SEO attack
Of course I’m talking about football. When I say football I mean the game that is played with one ball thas is kicked with the foot, not the other game that ...
Adobe Creative Suite 5 Now Available
Although there’s a heated Adobe vs. Apple discussion going on, creative professionals are probably much more excited about the latest version of Adobe’s Cre...
Malware humor
Every once in a while, you find some odd piece of text in a piece of malware.
Plenty of Updates on Patch Tuesday
Many patches are announced for tomorrow: The Redmond company expects to release 11 security bulletins. Of those 5 are rated critical, 5 important and 1 mode...
Palm Is for Sale
Palm, the smartphone pioneer, is on the block. The company, which in recent years has been eclipsed by the iPhone (and to some extent by Google’s Android OS...
WordPress blog pages redirected to rogue site
Brian Krebs, in his “Krebs on Security” blog is reporting that a large number of WordPress blog pages have been hacked to redirected visitors to networkads.n...
Google Developing Tablet to Take on iPad
Google CEO Eric Schmidt has confirmed that his company is developing a tablet device based on the Android operating system, according to friends that spoke ...
Barnes & Noble’s Nook Hits Best Buy Stores Next Week
Barnes & Noble confirmed that its Nook e-reader is coming to Best Buy retail stores beginning April 18. Last week we reported on rumors that both the No...
Steve Jobs: No iPhone OS 4.0 Support for Original iPhone
In an e-mail to a German customer, Steve Jobs confirmed what most of us surmised last week: There will be no iPhone OS 4.0 support for original 2G iPhone ow...
BREAKING: Twitter Acquires Tweetie
Twitter has just announced that it has acquired Atebits, the company behind the popular Tweetie iPhone app and Mac desktop application.
There is a Lot of Spam Out There…
…and some of it masquerades as “marketing” and “newsletter” emails.
Twitter: 60 percent growth outside U.S.
Aiming for one billion Twitterers by 2013?
Tensions Mount Between Google and European Telecoms Over YouTube
European telecommunication giants are preparing to fight Google over the data traffic and bandwidth that is consumed due to YouTube videos, according to a n...
The big change coming to Safari 5: Kernel-level multi-processing
Apple has been challenging Google on many fronts this week — first with its mobile platform, then with its advertising platform. Earlier today, its developer...
Isohunt Goes Lite for Visitors From the U.S.
One week ago, we heard that popular BitTorrent search engine Isohunt had been ordered by a U.S. judge to remove copyright-infringing content from their webs...
Singer’s Exploit Kit version CVE-2010-0806
Well, well… looks like someone has been singing along to one of Jay Chow’s songs while coding an exploit that corresponds to a vulnerability in Internet Expl...
UK Passes Controversial Digital Economy Bill
The United Kingdom parliament has passed the Digital Economy Bill, an extensive and controversial piece of legislation, by a vote of 189 to 47. The legislat...
Trojanised Mobile Phone Game Makes Expensive Phone Calls
We have received reports of a malicious Windows Mobile game that creates significant phone bills to affected users.
Get a Custom Colored iPad… for a Price [VIDEO]
Sure, that Apple-flavored brushed aluminum finish might work for most iPad owners, but what if you’re a unique snowflake whose extremely non-conformist iden...
Don’t tell spammers that you’re on vacation
Microsoft has made the right decision to temporarily turn off Hotmail’s vacation (e.g., out-of-office) reply feature. Flip the switch off permanently, I say.
Adobe Employee: Go Screw Yourself, Apple
Adobe has fired back against Apple’s recent ban on building iPhone apps via Flash. And this time, Adobe’s not pulling any of punches.
Netflix Delays More New Releases, Tides You Over with Library Content
The new release rental is officially dead. As expected, Netflix has signed new deals with Twentieth Century Fox and Universal Studios Home Entertainment — s...
Google Search Rankings Now Consider Site Speed
Back in November, we started hearing murmurs that Google was considering whether or not to factor site speed into its search ranking algorithm. In a blog po...
Iowa bank compromised, serving exploits
Northwestern Bank Online – Orange City is compromised and should not be visited until it’s clean.
Adobe Patch Tuesday news: auto updater coming
Adobe has announced that it will release an updater along with Adobe Reader and Acrobat versions 9.3.2 and 8.2.2 on patch Tuesday next week.
Election results? Our survey says…
…”click here to view”.
Denial of availability and UK anti-piracy law
There could be a denial-of-availability risk to the enterprise in the new anti-piracy law passed by the British Parliament yesterday. Employees using company...
Apple reinvents multitasking for the iPhone
Multitasking, the feature that has been the absolute top of every iPhone user’s want list –which, by proxy became a major marketing point for both Android an...
Benign Feature, Malicious Use
An interesting and unknown feature used by sysadmins around the world in some large corporate networks is the use of proxy-auto config (pac) files. This beni...
The mobile game with a Trojan thrown in for free
TSince 27 March a new game called 3D Antiterrorist has been cropping up on quite a few international freeware sites offering downloads for Windows Mobile ...
Ninjas Taking Over LinkedIn
Apparently, Facebook isn’t the only online sphere where ninjas are becoming a problem — The LinkedIn Blog reports that the job title “Ninja” has become more ...
Apple’s Game Center will catapult iPhone into video gaming big leagues
Today, Apple unveiled a major update to the iPhone OS which is expected to reach iPhone 3G/3GS and 2nd/3rd gen iPod users sometime this summer, and iPad user...
New “Sex and the City 2″ Trailer Hits the Web
Yahoo Movies has posted the newest trailer for the upcoming film, Sex and the City 2. The sequel to the 2008 box office hit comes to theaters on May 28, 2010.
Can the Focus of Spam Email be Used as an Economic Indicator?
The National Bureau of Economic Research has previously indicated that the United States has been in a recession since December 2007. What is interesting to ...
Google has just rewarded me with $1 million!!
I don’t believe it!! This morning I’ve received an email sent by Google notifying me that I´ve won $950,000, so I think this will be the last post I’m going...
Spammers Distributing Free Passes for IPL Matches
The Indian Premier League 2010 is a huge attraction for the cricket-crazy population in India. These matches are packed with all the ingredients to entertain...
Patch Tuesday next week
Microsoft has put the PC-using world on notice that next Tuesday there will be 11 bulletins released addressing 25 vulnerabilities in Windows, Exchange and O...
Chinese censorship: herding cats on the Internet
Search terms that are censored in China:</p>
iPad Spam has entered the building
It was only a matter of time before the merest of “iPad” mentions on sites such as Twitter would result in autospammed messages like this:
Number of infected computers spikes in Korea
Hong Kong-based security firm Network Box reported that Korea was the country of origin for 31.1 percent of the malware on the Internet in March. In February...
FakeAV Gang Targets Farmville – #1 Facebook Game
Farmville has been launch in June 2009 and after month it has been rated at #8 in Top 25 Facebook Games. Farmville has become the most popular games on Fa...
iPhone OS 4.0 Features List
Just after the launch of iPad, Apple has just announced iPhone OS 4.0 Event at 8th April 10 AM PT. A lot more speculations are being made about the upcoming ...
China denies connection to high-level hacking
“Shadows in the Cloud” hang over the otherwise sunny PRC
POC is out: a worm that spreads via PDFs
A blog contributor who goes by the name of “jeremy” has continued to research the possibilities inherent in the recently discovered .pdf-file weakness that c...
How to take Screenshots on iPad
Apple iPad is launched few days back and many tips and tutorials related to it have started appearing all over the web. We’ve a quick iPad tip – Taking scree...
Police arrest 70 in Romania for Internet fraud
A year-long international investigation concluded in the last few weeks with 700 police in Romania launching raids and taking into custody 70 people from thr...
Hacking the Matrix
I could talk about how The Matrix was a pretty big deal for me back in the day, or how The Matrix Online is (to date) the only MMORPG I ever liked enough to ...
Java Applet Attack Targets XBox Gamers
If you like downloading or installing programs on your PC related to XBox gaming, you might want to take heed of this writeup. There’s a fake application kit...
Google Code Jam 2010 registration now open
Taken from Official Google:
Xbox 360 system update finally adds USB storage
As expected, Microsoft has pushed out a mandatory update to the Xbox 360 today, which adds support for USB storage devices, expanding the memory capacity of ...
Security awareness: many levels, many things
Rob VandenBrink has written a piece on the SANS web site Diary (“The Many Paths to Security Awareness”) with an interesting take on the very large topic of c...
FBI will investigate Pa. school district webcam spying
The FBI has said it will be checking to see if any federal wiretapping or computer-related laws were broken by a Pennsylvania school district in connection w...
Nintendo wants to try its hand at 3D again
A very dodgy looking PDF file appeared on Nintendo’s Japanese investor relations site with the title “Launch of New Portable Game Machine” (PDF available her...
Are you reading this with Internet Explorer version 6?
Virus Bulletin is reporting that a recent survey it conducted found that about one out of five people are still using the dangerously-out-of-date version six...
Adobe to launch Creative Suite 5 April 12
A spokesperson for Adobe told us that on the morning of April 12 at 11:00 a.m. EDT, the company will hold a global online launch event for all of the compone...
Rogue Toolbars Serve Up Facebook Phishing Pages
There are a number of Toolbars out there in the wild with a nasty sting in the tail for anybody using them to login to Facebook. We’ve seen two of these so f...
Apple Diversifies Into Online Pharmaceuticals
Spammers have decided that in order for Apple to meet sky-high growth expectations from its shareholders, Apple needs to diversify into selling drugs online.
Hacking forum or a sting operation?
Though it is true that malware is getting more and more sophisticated I am sometimes surprised by the lack of skills coming from wannabe botnet operators. To...
Fake updates install backdoors
Our good friends at Hanoi, Viet Nam, -based security firm Bkis have written about an interesting malcode lure: Trojans masquerading as updates for popular ap...
Social media is exposure for password guessing
The Inquirer security news site were reporting that the 25-year-old arrested by French police for hacking a Twitter data base and accessing U.S. President Ba...
Help The Homeless, Feed the Phishers?
Well, this is unfortunate. In the UK, they have something called “The Big Issue”, which is a magazine designed to help the homeless get back into society via...
Journey to the Center of the PDF Stream
Malware authors use numerous unconventional techniques in their attempts to create malicious code that is not detected by antivirus software. As malicious co...
The Phishing of Indian Job Sites
Despite the global economic slowdown, India witnessed a high number of new jobs in the country during the first quarter of 2010. With the job market looking ...
Arrests on the Rise
Lots of little newsworthy updates recently . . . they’ve been well-covered elsewhere, but we wanted to make sure our readers saw them as well.
Persistent Domain-Renewal Scam Alive and Kicking
A friend of mine forwarded a suspicious email message recently. I’ve replaced the domain, order number, etc. below:
Be wary of Steam password stealers
There are a couple of programs in circulation at the moment designed to steal Steam account login credentials. People can have a lot of money invested in Ste...
Jon and Kate Plus Eight … plus fake codecs
One our researchers was reading the comments about Dancing With The Stars, and Kate Gosselin’s performance (He’s a huge fan … don’t ask), when he noticed a l...
When is a picture not worth 1000 words?
When it is not actually a picture but an obfuscated malicious VB script!
4.4 percent in China have no AV – that might not be too bad
The number for the rest of the world might be 26 percent
Giant Facebook database destroyed amid legal threat
New Scientist is reporting that a massive database culled from the public profiles of 210 million Facebook users has been destroyed before its anticipated — ...
Spam web sites moving from .cn to .ru
Scum on the run
Will fuzzing save civilization as we know it?
Tom Gallagher, senior security test lead with Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing group, was extensively quoted in news stories today as he described how his g...
Want to Make Easter Even More Magical? Click me!
As Easter approaches, spam related to this upcoming holiday is expected. Spammers didn’t send malicious greetings like last year—they sent out various produc...
WordPress Official App For iPad
iPad apps seems to be getting more faster approved than apple iphone apps, we have seen many iPad apps being released. WordPress official app has been releas...
Nokia.de(faced)
I’m almost certain this shouldn’t be on the Nokia.de webspace, lurking under the “online.nokia.de” subdomain:
Eliminate two thirds of comp security risk!
Don’t run your PC with admin privileges
Firefox claims 30 percent market share
Mozilla.org has made public a report that says its Firefox browser has 30 percent market share worldwide. Assuming it’s true, that is a six percent increase ...
Ah yes. FBI agent Brad Martins with the “global scam Fither in CA 93535”
Good God! A 419 scam email from someone in grade school!
Google: beware spyware from Vietnam
Spyware/DDoS malware combo
Apple issues mega patch for Mac OS X
Apple has issued Security Update 2010-002 (Mac OS X v10.6.3) that fixes 100 enumerated vulnerabilities in: — Mac OS X 10.5 — Mac OS X 10.6 — Mac OS X Server ...
Forbes: "It’s all just Malware now"
It seems I prompted an exploration of infection related search terms in Google Trends over on the Forbes.com Firewall blog. “Malware” is becoming a sort of c...
Running executables in PDF: it’s a feature
Didier Stevens, security professional and blogger, has found a “feature” in the PDF file format that makes it possible to package an executable in a PDF file...
MS out-of-band patch TODAY
MS10–018
Chrome 5 becomes the Flash browser, integrates plug-in with dev build
With Google owning YouTube, the Internet’s principal delivery system for Flash-based video, it was perhaps inevitable that the company would bundle the Flash...
Australian Internet censorship row warms up
There seems to be an established procedure used by government officials who want to censor Internet traffic: begin requiring Google and ISPs to filter pornog...
EXEs in word docs
Today, our friends at Trend Micro blogged about a new attack vector using Microsoft Word documents. We saw this as well last week, and have written a detecti...
Improved chat for iGoogle and orkut
Have you ever wanted to quickly send a file to a friend who’s online? Now you can share pictures, documents and other files directly with your friends while ...
Test of China Internet connections reveals heavy filtering
Using a Firefox 3.0 add-on created by developers in Hong Kong, Betanews was able to briefly establish a connection with the Internet via a proxy based in mai...
Back to Basics with Fake AV
We’ve been seeing Fake AV programs getting more convincing for a while now. Some of the tricks employed by the guys behind these rogue programs include Windo...
Facebook AV
Does a Facebook-specific antivirus application sound like a good idea? Maybe not. One of our analysts saw this particular application claiming to be an antiv...
Microsoft out-of-band patch tomorrow
Microsoft said today it will issue an out-of-band patch tomorrow for a vulnerability in Internet Explorer 6 and 7 that is being actively exploited.
MPEG LA wins major MPEG-2 settlement from Alcatel-Lucent
Could the manufacturers of DVD players (no, not just Blu-ray, but the original DVDs) owe back royalties to Alcatel-Lucent for the use of patented technology ...
It’s not dead yet: Microsoft’s out-of-band IE6 fix impacts IE8
Last month, Microsoft sent flowers to a mock funeral for Internet Explorer 6, in a show of support for the ideal that the old browser should be declared defu...
Fake Lawsuit Notification Attack
A few of days ago, we encountered an e-mail with a malicious RTF attachment. It was sent with a supposed lawsuit notification message.
Child Tax Credit is the New Phishing Bait
Who wouldn’t want some tax benefits in the current economic times? Don’t phishers and scammers know that all too well! In a new phishing scheme, We found tha...
Google denies YouTube outage speculation
Google Inc., owner of YouTube, said an outage of the popular video-sharing site Thursday was technical and not caused by outside tampering.
Google, China trade shots
Google and the Chinese government are continuing to trade shots in the PR battle over net censorship. Earlier in the week, Google moved its Chinese search fa...
Firefox, IE8 and Safari hacked at CanSecWest
In the Pwn2Own hacking contest at the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver, Canada, security researchers and hackers quickly hacked three of the major...
Bulgarian city official loses committee post because of Farmville addiction
Computer security category of risk: human factors?
It takes only one ‘nice’ person
In the security industry we often focus heavily on new technologies and shiny new software, and forget that so much of what we see is dependent on the person...
Google-in-China saga: another hack, move to HK
There is a risk to computer security from governments. Regulatory changes, even if they are very positive measures, can impose huge demands on an enterprise ...
Polar opposites in U.S. Senate co-sponsor cybercrime bill
In spite of the polarized, poisonous atmosphere in Washington, D.C., generated by President Barak Obama’s health care reform campaign, two Senators from very...
Google… made in China?!?
Today at CanSecWest I stopped by the Google booth and picked up a yo-yo.
New social media? Pay to play online games with women?
“Dirty” or “Flirty”
Download Windows 7 Mountains Theme – Syue & Nenggao
We’ve previously listed many official themes for Windows 7, presented by Microsoft at Windows 7 Personalization Gallery. Here are 2 more new themes which tru...
The Facebook Dislike Button Likes Hotbar
Not so long ago, examples of fake Firefox websites / downloads were in the news with the sites involved serving Hotbar installs.
Smart Aleck Passwords
Älypää, a popular Finnish game and quiz site, announced a database breach late last night.
Using Windows “hosts” file to cut off the help line
We found this interesting and malicious little mechanism.
Fix-it-Tool for IE-0-day
For the current vulnerability in Internet Explorer 6 and 7 which already gets actively exploited on the net, Microsoft is already testing a patch. The compan...
Attacks on Indian Income Tax Department Continue
We previously reported a phishing attack on the Indian Income Tax Department. Phishing emails boasting of tax refunds were sent to users in an attempt to ent...
Fresh exploit served up with ads
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Icelandic Volcano Erupts, Fake Antivirus Spews Forth
Yesterday there was a volcanic eruption in Iceland, near the Eyjafjallajoekull glacier, that has led the Icelandic authorities to declare a state of emergenc...
A Fishy Defacement
Generally speaking, most website defacements I see tend to look the same with political activist Y decrying political activist Z, or leet hax0rs posting up a...
Phishers cast their nets at Neopets Users
If you have children that play Neopets, you might want to warn them about this website or insert it into a blocklist of your choosing. The site is Neopoints(...
Germany’s CERT warns against Firefox use
BürgerCERT, Germany’s government information security organization, is recommending that Web users NOT use the Firefox browser until Mozilla fixes a vulnerab...
Google quits censoring search in China
Google's decision to stop censoring search results in China may lead the Chinese government to block access to its s...
Google posts page monitoring Chinese censorship
Google has put up a page that shows what Web services are currently being blocked by the Chinese government.
Google.cn is Dead Now
Google.cn is now redirecting to google.com.hk [ Hong Kong google servers ] – this has happened after the cyber attack on google china servers in december. ri...
The Browser Choice Reloaded
A little more than a week ago Microsoft started delivering a new Browser Choice for Windows to be compliant to the European Union law. There are plenty of we...
Google search reveals 3 million pages link to rogue AVs
Do you know what the latest version of Adobe’s Flash Player is? If you don’t, you may very well fall for this:
IMF money-making scam
I have seen a lot of these lately. This one currently doing the rounds tries to dupe the reader into thinking that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) want...
Bots, bots, and again bots
Today we are going to take a closer look at bots and botnets. On the black market, selling bots and botnets is quite profitable, which makes creating them a ...
Google’s Pacific submarine cable "Unity" nearly complete
— 7.68 Terabits/s for growing Asian market — $300 million cost (from consortium of six companies) — 10,000 km length (Chikura in Japan to Los Angeles) — Incr...
20 undocumented holes in OS X?
Charlie Miller, Principal Analyst at Baltimore, Md.-based security firm ISE, has made news in the last two days saying that he found 20 perviously-unknown se...
Phishing increased 62 percent in ‘09
The DarkReading site is carrying a story about brand-protection firm MarkMonitor's finding that phishing increased 62 percent in 2009 with 565,502 attacks...
Index of /images: a hiding place for malware?
The underlying structure of a typical website is made up of different folders and sub-folders, much like the ones that are on your computer. A webmaster (is ...
Please give me your credit card
I won’t abuse it, I promise…. cross my heart… spit into the wind… etc.
Screenshots of the latest Twitter phishing attack
Today there’s a phishing run underway in Twitter, using Direct Messages (“DMs”). These are private one-to-one Tweets inside Twitter.
Another FakeAV, for Windows 7!
With Windows 7 becoming increasingly popular, more and more software companies have begun to upgrade their interface for the latest Microsoft operating syste...
The Dangers Of Freebies
The internet is rife with free tools from anything to everything (almost) – from free HTML web editors to free applications to free games and so on.
Google Code turns five
At age five most kids can hop, skip and tie their shoes without help. Google Code turns five this week, and while they’re still working on the shoelaces thin...
Can spam get worse?
Or is it at the saturation point?
Looking for a good time? New scheduling tool in Calendar
Scheduling meetings is tough, but rescheduling is even harder. We all know how frustrating it can be to try to find just the right time that accommodates eve...
Blank Plastic
We regularly learn of cases where criminals have gained access to credit card numbers via keyloggers, skimmers or online hacks.
Download Google Buzz widget for Android phones
You can now access Google Buzz from your Android mobiles easily using the official Google Buzz widget, that lets you post text and photos with a single tap.
iRogue?
Are Mac OS X rogues an emerging threat?
Facebook Suffers ‘Password Reset’ Scam
Today has been quite a busy day for scammers. We have been tracking a global scam/spam run that targets Facebook users. The lure used in the run is a familia...
Chilean Earthquake Spawns Malware
Most of us are familiar with how high profile news events are used for malware distribution. We’ve seen it many times such as with Tiger Woods’ scandal and t...
Facebook Users Suffer From ‘Fram’
About a year or so ago one of the “McMarketeers” decided it would be fun to run a campaign against “fram”–spam that friends send you. As you might guess, we ...
Twitter starts Direct Message phishing filtering
Del Harvey who leads Twitter’s Trust and Safety team blogged yesterday that the social networking/micro-blogging service has begun filtering all links in Twi...
Consoles for old games come with new malcode
Be on the lookout for websites offering up “free applications” which come with a nasty sting in the tail. Here’s a typical example: Appzkeygen(dot)com
Internet Explorer 0-day targeted in spam runs
Hot on the heels of the Patch Tuesday announcements yesterday, came the announcement of a new zero-day in Internet Explorer (CVE-2010-0806).
Twitter Spam: Getting slim with slim URLs
A while ago I was writing about twitter spam and I was trying to make a brief definition of this kind of spam: It follows a lot of users , has 1 post and is ...
Finding awesome stuff online with Google Reader Play
I use Google Reader a lot — not only to stay on top of the news, but also to find interesting blog posts and articles. I’m always telling my friends about Go...
Malicious Web Attack Using Executable With facebook.com in Name
As we were working through URLs identified as suspicious due to our GTI technology, one of the URLs that presented itself was an average “.com” site that loa...
Many Zeus botnet C&C servers taken down
Swiss security blog Abuse.ch has reported that the worst Zeus botnet hosting ISP was taken off line yesterday, cutting the botnet’s number of servers from 24...
You don’t want to go looking for Corey Haim videos
Hollywood celebrity Corey Haim has died in typical tabloid fashion: “under investigation.” And we all know that celebrity death equals Internet scams by the ...
How safe is cloud computing?
This is an article taken from CNN and I don’t agree or disagree it.
Stars make search more personal
We’ve long believed that personalization makes search more relevant and fun. For nearly five years, Google has been tailoring results with personalized searc...
Microsoft Patch Tuesday – March 2010
Hello and welcome to this month’s blog on the Microsoft patch releases. This is a fairly quiet month—the vendor is releasing two bulletins covering a total o...
Vodafone distributes Mariposa botnet
Here is yet another example of a company distributing malware to its userbase. Unfortunately it probably won’t be the last.
Energizer USB charger infected with Trojan
Hmmm. A new vector for malware: USB battery chargers. Wonderful.
The Browser Choice
A Windows Update is available to users who are located in member countries of the European Union allowing for choosing a different standard browser for the s...
Cute (and malicious)
There’s an angelically tinged infection doing the rounds at the moment that has more than a whiff of sulphur about it.
Blogger.com – -not!
Cybercriminals are attacking bloggers who use Google’s Blogger.com. We have received emails intended for bloggers to update their account. Here’s the snapsho...
Google’s App Store for Business to Launch Next Week
Google is set to launch an app store for business next week, Mashable has learned from sources close to the company. It will be focused around creating softw...
Steer clear of fake FBI fingerprint scanner
Sources on a number of forums tell me that a certain application is going to be released into the wild in a few days, promoted heavily via sites such as Yout...
Wiseguys Botnet First in Line for Concert, Sports Tickets
We frequently read stories about spammers who can circumvent CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) authenticat...
All browsers are (not) created equal
My friends often ask me about steps they can take to keep their systems at work and home free from malware. Apart from the usual recommendation to use altern...
SEO blogger victim of malicious SEO attack
On Friday evening I was talking to a North American customer who had been fighting with infections caused by SEO poisoning. They mentioned a particular searc...
Kuwait, Saudi… and PrIv8 ActiveX ExploiT
We all know Brazilian hackers have mastered the art of creating banking trojans. The Chinese are very fond of password stealers targeting online games. The b...
Desperate phishing attempt
Somebody is trying to pose as F-Secure. If you see an email like the one below, just ignore it:
Facebook, Twitter Use Skyrockets on Cell Phones
New comScore data shows that Facebook and Twitter use has skyrocketed on mobile devices over the past year, and that on-the-go MySpace use is now on the decl...
Download Life Theme Pack for Windows 7
After the Spring theme pack Microsoft has released a beautiful Life theme. It consists of five beautiful Discovery channel wallpapers based on wild life and ...
Viruses and Digital Signatures
Recently, We received some malicious files which appeared to be signed by “Adobe Systems Incorporated”. On closer inspection, however, it was seen that the s...
The Morphing PDF
Just when we thought SEO using Flash was as interesting as SEO poisoning can get, it seems it’s getting even sneakier…
Patch Tuesday coming next week
Microsoft has issued an advance notification for Patch Tuesday next week. The company said it expects to issue two patches, one for Windows and one for Offic...
Who’s watching you really?
This morning while I was enjoying my coffee I received an event notification for my personal Facebook account. It was for a group called “See Who’s Spying On...
Adservers compromised in latest Zbot push
As we have commented before when content served up from adservers is compromised, the effects can be far reaching, potentially exposing huge numbers of victi...
Pwn2Own Interview with Charlie Miller
Charlie Miller, the Pwn2Own contest winner for two years in a row, gives his take on Internet security. Guess what — your Mac OS is no less vulnerable than i...
Contraband Imports
One of the issues malware writers deal with is having their programs load and execute on a victim’s computer. An unwary victim may click on an email attachme...
Late Dash by Spammers for 2010 Winter Olympics
The 2010 Winter Olympics were held in Vancouver, Canada, from February 12-28. With more than 82 countries participating and millions across the globe catchin...
Everybody uses Web 2.0, but IT might not know it
Communications security firm FaceTime of Belmont, Calif., has released the results of a survey (of 1654 people) that strongly indicates we are all using a lo...
Chat with malcode
It’s time for your daily dose of “spot the fake program / avoid the fake program”.
FakeAV, now for Windows 7!
It’s been over a year since we first started seeing the familiar Windows XP My Computer page where it appears your drives are being scanned and it reports a ...
Phishing Scam Linked to Valentine’s Day Movie
Symantec has been observing several spam and phishing attacks regarding the recent Valentine’s Day. One such phishing attack was on an e-card website that as...
Mariposa botnet take down
Readers may well have read some of the news stories posted after yesterday’s news concerning the take down of the “Mariposa” botnet. So what is Mariposa?
Download Official Spring Theme pack for Windows 7
Microsoft has released new spring theme for windows 7 to bring the feeling of season change right on your desktop. It is named Czech and is a light, simple a...
Too many passwords? Here is a solution!
How many web sites do you log into? Your bank? Facebook, Myspace and any number of other social networking sites? Auction sites? Shopping sites? Maybe lots o...
RealDVD permanently banned in US, Real pays Hollywood $4.5 million
The battle over RealNetworks’ DVD copying software, called RealDVD, has finally come to a close, and Real has lost.
The Internet as a moral ground
“…in that space one can easily indulge in depravity, lies, vulgarity…”
U.S. Census Bureau warning of phishing scams
The U.S. Census Bureau is warning of phishing and other scams that are using the 2010 Census as bait. Here is the warning from the bureau’s web site:
Malicious iframes on Google-analitics(dot)net
Right! A site registered in the state of “Taliban.”
Quarantine for infected PCs?
Microsoft Vice President of Trustworthy Computing Scott Charney, in a keynote address at the RSA security conference in San Francisco yesterday, called for q...
Another Bot Bites the Dust?
Remember Microsoft’s action against 277 Waledac domains last week? Well, that’s one way of going after a botnet…
Battlefield Keygens are Bad Company
In the same way that media event X guarantees Rogue Antispyware Y, a new and highly anticipated videogame that’s about ready to launch will similarly bring o...
Microsoft updates MS010-15 [Fixed]
It won’t work if you have a rootkit infection, but it won’t blue screen your machine either.
Steve Ballmer talks Bing, Google, Xbox and Windows Phone
For anyone that missed Microsoft CEO’s Q&A during the Search Marketing Expo West yesterday, a transcript is now available online. I went through and pick...
Big Brother in Social Networking Scam
“Big Brother Brazil” is a Brazilian reality TV program adapted from the popular Big Brother television series. The show is about a group of people living tog...
Beware of Targeted Scams and Phishing Attacks!
According to latest State of Spam and Phishing report, scam and phishing messages accounted for 21 percent of all spam, which is the highest level recorded s...
KOOBFACE Makes a Comeback
A new KOOBFACE variant is again making the rounds in the social-networking scene. According to Trend Micro researcher, Norman Ingal, the malware employs Face...
I’m Feeling Lucky?
Criminals like to attack the biggest target because BIGGER generally provides a better Return On Investment (ROI). Windows is a good example. Mac is indeed s...
Apple sues HTC for iPhone patent infringement
Apple has sued smartphone maker HTC for patent infringement, citing 20 patents related to the iPhone’s user interface, architecture, and hardware, a statemen...
60+ Compromised Sites with SEO Poisoning
More than 60 websites have been found to be hotbeds for SEO poisoning. Each of these domains host hundreds of possible matches for search keys.
Baidu: Register.com replaced its DNS credentials for some guy in a chat room
Last month, Baidu, the leading search engine in China, filed suit against US-based Internet registrar Register.com, in a legal event that took place at the h...
Skype gives up on Microsoft, will work with operators on Windows Mobile
Popular instant messaging, voice chat, and video conferencing client Skype and Skype Lite are no longer available on Windows Mobile devices.
Hacker Fail
Very funny:
This you?? What’s the point of phishing a Twitter account?
In Additional to my last post: http://boelectronic.blogspot.com/2010/03/twitter-phished-its-easy-mistake.html
Twitter phished? It’s an easy mistake
London, England (CNN) — Twitter this week endured a number of “phishing” attacks, in which some users unwittingly gave out their passwords to malicious sites...
NOT the real VirusTotal.com
In Additional to my last Post: http://boelectronic.blogspot.com/2010/03/free-fakeav-at-virus-total-thats-not.html
The U.S. Census 2010: Don’t be Counted as a Victim of Online Fraud
It’s been ten years already; can you believe it? I’m talking about the U.S. Census. It’s been ten years since the last one. Time to do it again. No, it wasn’...
Waldec vs Microsoft and then Twitter!
There were a couple of news items that I thought were interesting enough, albeit unrelated, to comment on. The first (story here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi...
Hacktivism is following current controversies
If history is any gauge, this is probably the first of several incidents like this.
Free FakeAV at Virus-Total (That’s not VirusTotal)
VirusTotal has been well known to most readers of the blog. It’s a free virus and malware online scan service which allows submitters to test a particular fi...
Do not even turn on your PS3 today, Sony warns
Since yesterday evening, PlayStation 3 users have been reporting difficulties in connecting their consoles to the PlayStation Network for online gameplay and...
Most used Spam Categories in February 2010
Since January we publish monthly reports about the categories of the spam messages which got sent around the last month. These categories are detected by Avi...
Analyzing PDF Files
We’ve been seeing a gradual shift in malicious PDF file coding (no surprise there, we know malware authors can and do adapt their techniques).
Massive Earthquake in Chile Leads to a Surge of Rogue Antivirus
A massive earthquake struck near the Chilean city of Concepcion in the early hours of the morning of February 27th, 2010. The quake measuring 8.8 on the Rich...
Old websites are also used in spam SEOs
A few days ago, I blogged saying that Old websites don’t die they just get infected the other scenario is that they become part of a spammers SEO campaign.
ICQ scam in the wild
I have received a message this morning from an ICQ account with the following text written in UTF-8 and plain text:
SEO poisoning not in well, but it’s aiming for the water heater
People looking to take advantage of the savings from the government during these harder financial times are being hit with other financial burdens (Rogue AV ...
Insight into fake AV SEO
In this post I want to highlight how SEO attacks are working:
Troj/IFrame-DY: Old websites don’t die they just get infected
Earlier this week Sophos informed a UK Local Police Authority (Hertfordshire) that a website they owned was infected with Troj/IFrame-DY.
Do I Know You?
Imagine that you’re sitting at home catching up on your email backlog. In comes an email from your ISP, FooBarBazCo (some creativity required here, I know). ...
Zeus botnet continues: 2,500 victims estimated
Herndon, Va., forensics firm NetWitness has said that the Zeus botnet has breached the networks of nearly 2,500 organizations in nearly 200 countries, includ...
Scammers Offering Tax Refunds
Fraudsters never seem to rest. They have now turned their attention towards phishing using the Indian Income Tax Department’s name and branding. It is the se...
Apple iPhone Warranty Scam
Symantec has recently observed phishing scams targeting Apple iPhones in order to gain serial numbers, IMEI, model, and capacity, etc.
30 percent of U.S. is totally safe from Internet threats
A survey of 54,000 households (129,000 people) commissioned by National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) last year found that 30 perc...
Exploit for zero-day vuln in Firefox is for sale
Evgeny Legerov, founder of Intevydis in Moscow, has created an exploit that hits a previously unknown heap-corruption vulnerability in the Firefox browser. T...
Symantec Reputation-based Security: Suspicious.Insight detections on VirusTotal
Symantec recently upgraded their scanner on VirusTotal to include their new reputation-based security engine. That has caused a spike in their detection rate...
Antivirus NOT
“Dammed thieves. Stole our logo. I suppose we should be flattered, though.” — A.E.
Internet users skip security because of jargon
Representatives of computer companies and governments meeting at the EastWest Institute security meeting in Brussels said that an industry culture of obscure...
The .ru Substitutions for .cn Domains
In the month of January, we reported a drop in .cn spam. This was due to changes in the domain registration process introduced by CNNIC. In the first week of...
Phishing the Brands of Online Auction Marketing Tools
The popularity of online auctions paves way for the development of online auction marketing tools. These tools are software applications that are intended to...
Do They Know it’s (not) Christmas Time at All?
I saw something quite funny when checking out the spam feeds the other day. An attachment kept appearing, once in a while, with a name of Christmas Card.zip....
The Facebook Team informs you…
In the last two days our lab has detected a flood of email messages that seem to have been sent by the Facebook team urging users to submit a new account agr...
Security Advisory, Adobe Reader
It’s Fat Tuesday — time for an Adobe Update.
Tiger’s play too rough on Valentines Day
While most sane people around the world are enjoying a romantic Valentine’s Day today, we at SophosLabs remain vigilant on the front line of the war against ...
Unusual Valentine’s Gift Unwraps FakeAV
While everyone is searching the web for the unusual gift on Valentine’s Day, Cybercriminals take this opportunity to propagate Rouge Antivirus.
Tidserv and MS10-015
In the past, viruses and computer threats were created simply for the sake of it. Sometimes these threats would wipe your hard drive clean—just to let you kn...
Warning over sexy instant message called ‘Fembot’
(BBC) Lonely internet users are being warned about Fembot, a piece of malicious software that poses as a flirtatious woman looking to chat on instant messagi...
Real life Mafia Wars: Spy Eye tool kit goes after Zeus botnet
Peter Coogan at Symantec put up a very interesting blog post yesterday about a crimeware kit called SpyEye v1.0.7 (on sale now on Russian sites — $500) that ...
Windows 7’s strange Battery Notification isn’t any error but a Feature
Many users have complained about Windows 7 strange Battery notification saying “Consider replacing your Batteries” on Laptops and there was a noise about it ...
Shorten your own URLs
“YOURLS is a small set of PHP scripts that will allow you to run your own URL shortening service (a la TinyURL). You can make it private or public, you can p...
Top 4 most annoying Facebook couples
(CNN)(The Frisky) — For anyone who is remotely active on Facebook, you no doubt have been faced at some point with inane updates on one of your friend’s kid’...
Escort service infected with Troj/JSRedir-AR
Clients of escorts and call girls are usually aware of the the risks presented from STIs. However, SophosLabs has been monitoring a different type of infecti...
Facebook Chat is now accessible on popular instant messaging clients
Making good on a promise delivered just about one year ago, Facebook announced that its popular chat feature can now be accessed through any Jabber (XMPP)-co...
New Rogue: SecurePcAv
SecurePcAv is a phony antivirus program that has been infecting PC’s across the interwebs in recent days.
Zeus – Exploiting Spear Phishing to Spear Phish
The Zeus crimeware family has moved into new territory with its latest spam campaign – purporting to be a warning about targeted phishing attacks on “.gov” a...
New Rogue: Paladin Antivirus
Paladin Antivirus is a phony security program, designed to rip people off. Paladin Antivirus tricks people into thinking they are downloading a legit antivir...
History of the Internet
Have you ever wondered how Internet initiated 50 years ago in 1957? Below is a nice video which depicts how the Internet changed with respect to time in mode...
The Buzz is getting LOUDER
It has been barely two days since Google announced their new social integration and messaging tool called Google Buzz. Today we saw the first example of malw...
Between a PoC and a Hard Place
Several reports have been published detailing a Blackberry proof of concept (PoC) exploit called txsBBSpy that was recently presented at a security conferenc...
Interview with a Nigerian 419 scammer
Bruce Schneier, in his blog Schneier on Security http://www.schneier.com/ drew attention to this great interview with an ex-Nigerian-419 scammer on the Scam-...
Fake AV & Talking With The Enemy
Fake antivirus software (a.k.a misleading applications or rogue antivirus) is big business nowadays with Symantec reporting 43 million installation attempts ...
Wi-Fi sensitivity results in Santa Fe lawsuit
When you spend your day scouring the Internet (and my blog 😉 ) for news about computer security topics you cover a lot of territory. Once in a while you just...
New Rogue: Advanced Defender
Advanced Defender is fake security software that tricks people into thinking it’s legitimate antispyware software in hopes they will pay for the product.
A Perfect Valentine’s Day
Planning a romantic Valentine’s Day for your loved one? Is there is no end to all that you can do to add even more sparkle this dreamy day? Perhaps a bottle ...
Take Care Before Valentine: Cupid Struck
It’s just a few more days before Valentine’s Day. As most people now are already preparing their celebration, malware authors are also getting ready to use t...
Rogue trying to look like Avira anti-virus
Jerome Segura at ParetoLogic blogged about this yesterday: a rogue security product with a web page that tries to imitate that of the German AV company Avira...
Google Chrome Stable Channel Update
The Google Chrome stable channel has been updated to 4.0.249.89 for Windows.
New Rogue: SafePcAV
The creators behind the rogue antispyware appliaction WiniGuard have released yet another clone of their software. This one is called SafePcAV.
Fix Resuming problem after Sleep mode in Vista and Windows 7
Putting laptop in sleep mode is a common thing that we do to save power and perform our work at a later stage without much delay. But for some users there is...
Phishing Using Pornographic Content as Bait
Symantec has observed a new trend in phishing in which the phishing Web page contains pornographic content. The phishing site states that the end user can ob...
Phony Firefox update comes with Hotbar adware
Our good friends at Broomfield, Colo., security firm eSoft have found an interesting scam to trick Internet users into installing the Hotbar adware: a fake F...
Microsoft Updates, February 9th
February 9th will bring numerous Microsoft Updates, 13 bulletins addressing 26 vulnerabilities.
New IE Information Disclosure Advisory…
Microsoft has announced in Advisory (980088) that there has been a publicly disclosed vulnerability in Internet Explorer, versions 5 through 8. Users not run...
Spammers dangle iPad carrot
New, shiny products always tend to catch people’s attention, and spammers are continually looking for ways to do exactly that. So it’s not surprising to see ...
Download Official Valentine Theme for Windows 7
Valentines Day is coming and people are getting ready with preparation and plans to gift some thing different to their loved ones. In this race how can Windo...
You’d think a company pursuing an IPO in this economy would clean upits act
You’d think that a company trying to raise several hundred million with an initial public offering of stock would tell their affiliates to be on their best b...
Major U.S. crackdown on work-at-home fraud coming?
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission today announced that next Tuesday they will hold a news conference to make public details of “a law enforcement sweep crack...
Job opportunity without a single name
Today we received some job hiring emails that looked like this:
Phishing scam steals carbon credits
Wired magazine has run a story on a phishing scam in Europe, New Zealand and Japan that resulted in the loss of 250,000 carbon credit permits worth $4 millio...
New Facebook Home Page, Important New Privacy Setting
Facebook started rolling out a new home page and navigation menus earlier today.
It looks like a phish but isn’t
This is really bad for so many reasons. It certainly doesn’t help their security.
Trojan code sneaks into two Mozilla add-ons
Mozilla yesterday posted a notice on its AMO blog (that’s an acronym for their add-on site addons.mozilla.org) that two add-ons have been found infected with...
It’s lame ransomware, but it could fool somebody
Found this little gem today. It’s distributed with other malware, cracks and drive-by downloads. It purports to be a security warning from your Windows opera...
Using Google Images to Investigate Fraud
Sami, one of our test engineers, was recently seeking a Play Station 3.
Anatomy of a free Starbucks gift card scam
With virus and spam outbreaks, analysts needs to keep their nerves to analyze the situation and proceed to deal with the new threat. So, I wasn’t expected to...
Microsoft Support informs you…
Since yesterday, our lab has detected a flood of email messages that seem to contain a Microsoft Update, but it’s actually malware. We’ve seen around 3,000 i...
Hackers Disrupt European CO₂ Market
In recent weeks, various cybercrime attacks have disrupted the computer systems that allow nations to manage their national greenhouse-gas emissions quotas a...
Protecting Privacy by Design
Last week I revealed troubling transmissions by the Google Toolbar: Even when a user specifically “disable[s]” the Google Toolbar, and even when the Toolbar ...
Beware of Skype Phishing
We were made aware that phishing for Skype credentials is currently taking place. The link the phishing mails direct to are dangerous – they aren’t detected ...
New Rogue: MyPcSecure
MyPcSecure is the latest rogue anti-spyware application and a clone from the WiniGuard family.
BT Released “These Hopeful Machines”
BT Released “These Hopeful Machines” in 2 Discs.
New Rogue: LiveEnterpriseSuite
LiveEnterpriseSuite is a clone of InternetAntivirusPRO. Actually, the only thing that the authors of this rogue have changed is the name in the GUI.
Google Media Player under development
Google has confirmed that it’s future operating system Chrome OS will have an integrated media player that will offer basic codec support , so that users ca...
Google Chrome 4 – now with Extensions, Take Care!!!
With the latest release of their browser, v.4.0, Google has published a long expected feature: Browser Extensions. Now Chrome features what other browsers li...
Local Trends comes to Twitter
The most popular micro blogging network ‘Twitter’ has now added local trends support. This new feature allows users to track Trending topics on twitter relat...
MS Office 2010 RTM Final Build 14.0.4734.1000 Escrow Release
Microsoft Corporation has almost started assembling the final build of Office 2010 aka (MS office 14) RTM version. As per the news leaked on Wzor, Developmen...
Troj/JSRedir-AK: 40% of a month’s malware
It has been a month since Sophos added detection for Troj/JSRedir-AK and figures generated today show that over 40% of all web-based detections have been fro...
New Rogue: APcSafe
APcSafe is another rogue anti-spyware clone of the WiniGuard family.
New Rogue: PcsSecure
PcsSecure is the latest cloned rogue antispyware from the WiniGuard family.
Google Chrome Stable Channel Update
The stable channel has been updated to 4.0.249.78 for Windows, and includes the following features and security fixes (since 3.0):
Google Toolbar tracks searches after it’s disabled.
Ben Edelman, Harvard privacy researcher and guru has revisited the features of Google Toolbar and was appalled to discover that disabling it doesn’t really d...
Virus Writers Produce Hardware Damaging Code with Win32.Worm.Zimuse
Disguised IQ test combines virus, rootkit and worm — malicious code for one fatal formula
Desktop Security 2010
Desktop Security 2010 is a rogue antispyware program, designed to trick people into thinking it is a legitimate program. Desktop Security 2010 uses fake secu...
Hotmail password phishing again
I am a very lucky guy.
Adobe Flash 10.1 Will Get Private Browsing Mode
Adobe Flash is a well well known plugin used today by most of the internet users. Its next upgrade i.e version 10.1 will get private browsing support. Flash ...
Nude Pictures of Senator Scott Brown Arouse New Virus Concerns
False images from Cosmopolitan infect computers with fake antivirus product
404 error message spoof
Some questionable sites associated with the Winigard family of rogue security products pulls it from this location, which appears to belong to a graphic desi...
Smutty Searches Scuppered
Symantec Security Response has repeatedly warned that looking for free movies and videos online often results in malware infection, and here we go again with...
iPhish – fake iPhone warranty steals info
This week we’ve seen a spam campaign aimed at separating unsuspecting users from their iPhone details.
Now you too can mount your own Operation Aurora Attacks!!!
But don’t. Please don’t!… just…. don’t!…
Salesmen Are Not My Friends
I dislike salesmen. The look on their faces irks me when I can feel the dollars flicking in their eyes. I hate it when my car insurance company ask if i want...
APcSecure
APcSecure is a new rogue from the WiniGuard clone factory.
Dirty jokes by mobile phone
The Danwei web site (Chinese media, advertising, and urban life) is carrying a rippingly funny blog piece by Alice Xin Liu about a recent Chinese government ...
UK telecom giant Virgin Media monitoring customers’ file sharing
Virgin Media, the UK telecommunications giant that supplies TV, phone and Internet services, has begun to use deep packet inspection determine if its Interne...
Report from Europe: 95 percent of email is spam
The European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) has released a report that says 95 percent of all email is now spam.
System Defender
System Defender is a rogue antispyware program, or a PC infection made to look like real security software. System Defender is a scam designed to trick peopl...
ProtectSoldier
ProtectSoldier is the latest rogue antispyware program released by cyber thieves to terrorize PC users.
ArmorDefender
ArmorDefender is the latest rogue antispyware program released by cyber thieves to terrorize PC users.
Antivirus360
Antivirus360 is a phony antivirus program, designed to rip people off. Cyber thieves who created phony software like Antivirus360 use scare tactics to fright...
“Aurora” update brief DoS
Early this afternoon Microsoft released an out-of-band security bulletin patching the vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer. The fix has been at the top of th...
ProtectDefender
ProtectDefender is a new clone of the WiniGuard family.
Web users still don’t select good passwords
Security firm Imperva of Redwood Shores, Calif., found a unique way to gage the quality of the passwords that Web users select: they analyzed the 32 million ...
Targeted Attack using "Operation Aurora" as the lure
Now here’s an interesting turn of events.
Intelligence sector hit by a targeted attack
We just blogged about a highly targeted attack against military contractors.
Microsoft Vulnerabilities
Microsoft is releasing an out-of-band update for their IE vulnerability.
Microsoft will patch Internet Explorer today
Microsoft has said it will issue an out-of-band patch today for critical vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer that allow remote execution of code. The compan...
Facebook Privacy Doesn’t Really Exist
Facebook recently rolled out new privacy settings that provides additional publishing controls.
Haiti Earthquake: Another Rogue Rides the News
A day after the disaster that struck the Caribbean nation of Haiti, Rogue perpetrators have once again been busy with their SEO poisoning schemes. Searching ...
GhostAntivirus
GhostAntivirus is a new rogue anti-virus application. It is a clone of InternetAntivirusPro.
Symantec – Spam and Phishing Landscape: January 2010
Notable highlights this month include the shift of the regions of message origin, and changes in the average size of spam messages.
New Koobface variant saves researchers time from analysis
Researchers at McAfee labs monitor Koobface activities 24/7 via custom honeypots and while reviewing one such update we noticed a variant that had debug/log ...
Seasons of Scams
With the holiday season behind us, cyber scammers and spammers will now be looking towards the upcoming events and worldwide happenings that they can leverag...
Consistent Computer Virus Malcode names
InfoSecurity, a great site for computer security news, just put up a story asking the very old question: “Why don’t AV vendors name malcode consistently.”
What’s "Near Me Now"?!
Have you stood outside the restaurant and thought whether to go inside? Google solves this problem very easily. It has come out with yet another mind bobblin...
Rimecud and Hamweq – birds of a feather
Following the addition of Win32/Hamweq to the MSRT last month, MMPC will continue cleaning PCs in 2010 by adding another prevalent worm, Win32/Rimecud, to th...
Plenty of Updates on Patch Tuesday
This Black Tuesday was different as anticipated – Microsoft releases only one security bulletin, but other companies “jumped in” and deliver updates now as w...
Lethic gone: another botnet bites the dust
McColo (Nov. 08) , Torpig (May 09), MegaD (Nov. 09), Lethic (Jan 10)
SysDefenders
SysDefenders is the latest addition to the clones of the WiniGuard rogue anti-spyware family.
It’s Nice To Get Noticed
Looking at a random new incoming malware sample in F-Secure sample automation systems. Notice the Mutex names it uses:
Busy time for spammers during winter holidays
The spammers and malware authors profited of the holiday time when a lot of people are at home and sent a large amount of emails just before the official fre...
BlackBerry Messenger the new vehicle to distribute Hoaxes?
I received an interesting IM from a friend via BlackBerry Messenger [BBM] this weekend. She was worried that it could do damage to her shiny new BlackBerry a...
Registered malware
Malware authors love to innovate when it comes to persistence and hiding their nefarious creations from detection, and although most of the schemes are not u...
Guard Pro
Guard Pro is a rogue antispyware software, or a phony. Guard Pro uses fake system scans and warnings to frighten people into buying the software.
McAfee Labs’ January Spam Report
Angelina Jolie and Barack Obama are the #1 celeb subjects of choice for spammers, according to McAfee January Spam Report. The report also reveals:
Warning On Possible Android Mobile Trojans
Google’s Android mobile operating system has been out for a while and is generating more and more interest.
OWA-Malware is still being sent
The Internet Storm Center reports that malware which claims to be “new Outlook Web Access settings” is still being sent out by cyber criminals. We saw those ...
InSysSecure
InSysSecure is a rogue security program, designed to rip people off. InSysSecure uses false security warnings, alerts and system scans to frighten people int...
W32/Fame
Unlike the first malware authors who wrote viruses seeking fame through destruction, their motivation has changed to financial gain.
Open season on tax-payers
As any reader of this blog knows, cybercriminals can steal your money not just by putting malware on your machine, but by phishing attacks too. Phishing atta...
Firefox 4!
The third version of Firefox has emerged as the most successful leader in the browser category of all alternatives to Internet Explorer. Since the official l...
SysProtector
SysProtector and ApcDefender are two new rogue antispyware programs released in the past 48 hours.
Cybersitter sues China, others, for $2.2 billion in Green Dam fiasco
California software company Cybersitter LLC, has sued the People’s Republic of China and seven computer manufacturers in U.S. Federal court for stealing 3,00...
PCProtectar
PCProtectar is the latest rogue security software infecting PC’s across the interwebs. PCProtecter uses false security warnings and system scan results to tr...
How to rescue files encrypted by Data Doctor 2010?
We have a tool available to do just that. Click Here.
Identifying Malicious Blogspot pages used by Koobface
Koobface is still going strong despite not making the headlines so much anymore. Well, the Koobface gang took the time to send a Christmas card and wish secu...
Adobe Reader, Acrobat, Flash Player updater coming
There has been extensive news coverage this week of Adobe’s plans for ramped-up security in its popular Reader, Acrobat and Flash Player applications, especi...
“Washable” cell phone coming soon
Seal Shield, a Jacksonville, Fla., company that makes washable computer keyboards and mice, said it will introduce the world’s first washable cell phone at t...
Damn Funny Instant Message—NOT!
I recently received a suspicious Gmail chat message from a friend (shown below). I was immediately suspicious about the message because this friend has never...
No Malware (NoMalware)
No Malware is a rogue security program, or a phony. NoMalware is designed to trick people into purchasing the software, which is actually useless, a PC infec...
Gaming Trojans: “because that’s where the money is.”
The massive growth of gold farming – the exchange of real money for virtual goods – might result in an increase in gaming Trojans and other malware aimed at ...
PcsProtector
The creators of WiniGuard rogue security software have released their first clone of 2010. This new rogue is called PcsProtector.
One Y2010 bug surfaces – it could really fill the spam bucket
Mike Cardwell, an IT consultant in Nottingham, UK, reported on his blog finding a Y2010 bug in Spam Assassin. He found an error in a rule that Spam Assassin ...
Flash, Christmas and the new year
We see spam all the time. One of the most dependable things spammers do is to try and exploit various newsworthy events and holidays.
Thrice Bitten, Not Shy
The one subset of malware which does not immediately seem motivated by financial incentives is the autorun worm. In fact the raison d’etre for this class of ...
Glike NOT
This is an interesting sample, caught by our honeypots.
Antivirus PC 2009
Antivirus PC 2009 is the latest rogue security software to hit the internet. Antivirus PC 2009 is a complete scam designed to harass PC users into buying the...
Fake Alert Uses McAfee-like Domain Name to Attract Victims
Cybercriminals love to use social engineering techniques to trick users into installing their malware. One of the latest fake-alert variants attempts to tric...
No More Dragons: the 26th Chaos Communication Congress Ends
With a dazzling laser show, the 26th Chaos Communication Congress (26c3) in Berlin, the last big security conference of 2009, has ended. If you haven’t been ...
Seen in the wild: Specialty phishing
From a site that is hacked and serving phishes:
2010 prediction roundup
It’s the time of year to make predictions. I only have one: in 2010, governments around the world will BEGIN to increase their efforts to do something about ...
GreatDefender
GreatDefender is a great big scam. GreatDefender is the latest rogue antispyware software, or phony security program that rips people off. If GreatDefender h...
Safe Computing Tips For All
Jerome Segura, a Security Analyst at ParetoLogic of Victoria, B.C., Canada, just posted a nice piece on computer security practices with a different perspect...
What do you see?
I recently had an interesting message arrive in my system; after viewing the message, 100% of those polled agreed on what it was. What do you think?
AntivirusPC2009
Is this the last rogue for 2009? The cyber criminals will probably ditch 2009 in their naming after the New Year.AntivirusPC2009 may still trick some people ...
Not-so funny jokes
Activities associated with Koobface have increased during the month of December. Often it is for the sending of traffic to compromised servers in order to ob...
SystemCleanerPRO
SystemCleanerPRO is a rogue antivirus program, or a complete scam. SystemCleanerPRO uses fake security alerts and fictitious system pop-ups that warn or infe...
Twitter banned passwords
As you may have heard in the last few days, Twitter has banned 370 passwords (actually only 369, ‘password’ appears twice in the list) as ‘too obvious’ to be...
Facebook and Twitter Security – And How to Stay Safe!
Hopefully, the holiday season has found you spending a good amount of time offline: enjoying moments spent with friends and family, keeping long-standing tra...
Antispyware Shield Pro
Antispyware Shield Pro is a phony security software, also known as a rogue. Antispyware Shield Pro uses fake security warnings and pop-up alerts to frighten ...
Total PC Defender
Total PC Defender is a rogue security software, a complete scam designed to rip people off. If Total PC Defender has infected your PC, you should remove it i...
Researchers take down Mega-D, one of top 10 botnets
Atif Mushtaq, a researcher at FireEye security company, has coordinated a global effort to take down of one of the top 10 botnets – Mega-D.
A Christmas greeting from Koobface
Security researchers examining the directories of the URLs of some of the latest Koobface runs may stumble upon a Christmas greeting:
Are you caring for your Mom and Dad at Xmas?
For those of you that are having to put up with looking after your parents over Christmas: Would you much rather selfishly indulge yourselves with partying? ...
APCProtect
APCProtect is a phony security program, designed to rip people off. APCProtect uses scare tactics including false security warnings and system scan results t...
Merry CHRISTMA EXEC
Once again, we’d like to wish our readers Merry Christmas with a reference to the 1986 CHRISTMA EXEC worm
AV-Comparatives Summary Reports 2009 Available!
AV-Comparatives Summary Reports 2009 Available! Summary Report 2009
All about Brittany on Twitter
It’s the usual situation, with the bad guys exploiting the death of a famous person, just like they did with Michael Jackson.
Latest AV-Comparatives test Available (Performance comparative)
Performance comparative test result is available!
NRA: Beware the ‘12 scams of Christmas’
This is the ‘12 scams of Christmas’ I mentioned in last post:
The 12 scams of Christmas
Tanya has just posted over on Kaspersky Russian site about losses caused by Internet fraudsters in England and Wales. If you want to practice your Russian, h...
Crime time
Crime traditionally increases during the holiday season, and cybercrime is no different. The malware writers, spammers and scammers are out in force. They’ve...
US Chief of CyberSecurity
After months of negotiations, US President Barack Obama has finally chosen a Chief of CyberSecurity – Mr Howard A Schmidt. Confirmation of the appointment is...
Facebook: money mule or credit card
I was just looking at Facebook to check for spam and scams when I found this:
Check Your Friends! Facebook IMs May Lead To Trouble
I ran into a few strange IMs over the weekend. When I was not shoveling out my driveway from the 15 inches of snow that covered it I was logged into Facebook...
Brittany Murphy SEO
Just a quick note – the sudden death of Hollywood celebrity Brittany Murphy last Sunday (BBC report here) has prompted a spike in searches on the subject – a...
Christmas Bo(g)us
Well, it didn’t take long for the Christmas E-Card scams to start.
ProtectPCs
ProtectPC’s is a nasty rogue antivirus program, or phony security software, used to scam people out of their money. If your PC is infected with ProtectPC’s y...
Malware Defense
Malware Defense is a rogue security program, designed to look like legitimate security software. If Malware Defense has been installed on your PC more than l...
Last minute shopping – keep safe!
The holidays are nearly here! If you’re still searching for the final perfect present, and are thinking of buying online, here’s a few practical tips to help...
System Adware Scanner 2010
System Adware Scanner 2010 is phony security software, made to look and act like legitimate security software. System Adware Scanner 2010 is a potentially ve...
There’s No Such Thing as a Free Movie
Those looking to see the latest 3D blockbuster movie, The Avatar, on the cheap will have to take great care in what they search for. We have become aware of ...
Data Doctor 2010 will make you sick
Data Doctor 2010, an encryption trojan via our old “friends” iframedollars. It encrypts the files on your hard drive very rapidly if you’re unfortunate enoug...
The most phished brands of 2009
Almost the entire year 2009, the battle for the first place on phishing targets took place between Ebay and Chase Bank. Most of the time, the Chase Bank was ...
CNNIC changes have effect on spam tactics
As was announced on Dec 11th, CNNIC (China Internet Network Information Center) now requires a “formal paper based application material when making the onlin...
Microsoft privacy portal a target of rogue security software
Earlier in 2009, the Microsoft privacy homepage became the target of rogue security software developers looking to make a fast buck. The developers of the ro...
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Twitter Defaced by Iranian Hacktivists
Twitter, one of the Internets most popular social networking sites, has been hacked and defaced by a group claiming to be an “Iranian Cyber Army” as of 10:15...
FBI: Fraudsters earned $150 million in rogue AV scams
For the first time, the FBI has issued a public warning about the threat of rogue anti-virus software, which the agency said has resulted in more than $150 ...
WiniGuard clones are coming thick and fast
Another Clone of WiniGuard family, SysDefence! went live about 3 hours ago. They’re flying off the conveyor belt today.
Spam for the visually impaired
Starting at ~3:20pm GMT today, Canadian Pharmacy spammers began using attached MP3 files as the call-to-action for their latest campaign. The message had no ...
Who’s the quickest? Only one way to find out…
Earlier on this morning I happened to notice a redirect page used in a meds spam campaign that just happened to also be compromised with a malicious script.
Do you want Bing for iPhone? There’s an app for that
Earlier this evening, Microsoft formally announced a new search app for iPhone on the Bing Community blog. The Bing app is available now from the App Store, ...
Merry Christmas, Idiot
It’s not a huge surprise that we are seeing some malware spam runs where the malicious attachment attempts to portray itself as a Christmas Greeting of some ...
Like clockwork: the next member of the WiniGuard rogue family appears
I blogged about the three generations of the WiniGuard family of rogue security products that began in October of 2008. Friday, the 50th rogue in that line a...
10 million people will you computers are perfectly safe
New rogue borrows massively from AV company sites
Dangerous web searches
Don’t go there. There are a lot of rogue downloaders hiding in those links.
The biggest rogue family
The third generation of WiniGuard gets a new clone every 48 hours
Never judge a book by its cover nor a Web site by its pages
Case in point: findproper[dot]org
Naked elves distract nerds
What’s the best way to distract an online gamer while you drop some undesirable files onto their system? We saw what’s probably a pretty effective method tod...
“OH” “OH” “OH”, Santa Delivering FakeAV Presents
Following on from the latest Captcha techniques used by the W32/Koobface worm, it seems that the malware authors have turned to Santa for help to deliver it’...
Tiger still hot stuff
Despite talk of Tiger Woods’ sponsors “limiting his role” in their advertising campaigns, he is still very much hot stuff when it comes to search engine quer...
New wave of SQL Injection Attacks
Reports have reached us of a fresh SQL injection attack that has compromised many websites – a google search of the malicious iframe nets over 100000 hits. A...
Rebranded rogue claims to be McAfee Secure certified
Internet Security 2010, It’s a rebranded clone of Advanced Virus Remover, a rogue security product.
Google Work At Home Scam
Lately, a Google work at home scam has been plastering its way throughout the Internet. The scam site is designed to look like a convincing news paper articl...
Microsoft Hack
Basically, the rogue antispy was directing the victim to a genuine Microsoft address, but was modifying the html on the fly as it came back from the real Mic...
New rogue: SafetyAntiSpyware
SafetyAntispyware is a new rogue anti-spyware application. However, the functionality follows the same pattern as other rogues.
“Everyone” may not be your friend
There were two news stories recently that seemed to coincide. In the first, Cisco issued an annual security report which said the two current targets of the ...
SecurityTool rogue is trying to be a moving target
The SecurityTool rogue security product, which first turned up early in October, is still active and trying to avoid countermeasures by setting up 12-24 down...
Limeware and other P2P software present child p*rn risks
I’ve been saying this for a long time. P2P networks are have the risk of accidently getting something you really don’t want…
Beware of fake Microsoft updates coming through email
Email is still the most common method used for security update notifications from all major vendors, but it is also the most commonly used trigger for launch...
It pays to read the fine print (literally)
This is a new one: bribeware. They’ll pay you a dollar to install their product.
Turscar ríomhphoist – Spam Email (in Irish)!
According to the 2002 Census of the Population, 42% of the population of Ireland has the ability to speak Irish. Irish has also had official and working lang...
A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing
It has come to our attention recently that a website is giving out instructions on how to use a low tech social engineering trick to view private Facebook pr...
FIFA World Cup Tickets Scams Available Now
We recently alerted our readers to spam campaigns using the H1N1 vaccination program to prompt recipients to open the mail. And we have frequently mentioned ...
Critical Adobe Flash Update
It’s the second Tuesday of the month and there are important updates being released.
New social engineering technique: use Microsoft support to sell rogues
Sunbelt analyst Adam Thomas came across this ugly new social engineering technique when he analyzed the DefenceLab rogue security product.
Matisyahu
Matisyahu (born Matthew Paul Miller, June 30, 1979) is an American reggae musician. Known for blending traditional Jewish themes with Re...
Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash (born J. R. Cash; February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003) was a Grammy Award-winning American country singer-songwriter. Cash is w...
KoЯn
Korn, occasionally typeset as KoЯn or KoRn, is an American rock band from Bakersfield, California, and is often credited with popularizing the nu met...
Kid Rock
Robert James Richie (born January 17, 1971 in Romeo, Michigan), known by his stage name Kid Rock, is an American musician and actor. He has sold ove...
Avril Lavigne
Avril Lavigne Whibley (born September 27, 1984), better known by her birth name of Avril Lavigne (pronounced /ˈævrɨl ləˈviːn/), is a Canadian Grammy...
Coldplay
Coldplay are an alternative rock band formed in London, England in 1997. The group comprises vocalist/pianist/guitarist Chris Martin, lead guitarist ...
Fergie
Stacy Ann Ferguson (born March 27, 1975), better known by her stage name Fergie, is an American pop/R&B singer-songwriter, actress, and rapper. ...
Peter Heppner
Peter Heppner (born 1967 in Hamburg) was the lead singer for the German electronica/synth pop band Wolfsheim, and has collaborated with many other e...