See rogue site.
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- Rogue security programs are 'ongoing threat'
- The sites of these 'rogue security programs'Should be immediately shut down when they are found, by doing a DDoS attack if necessary.There is no reason to allow these bastards to shill their break-ware on the rest of us in the world.Getting worse...I've seen a hugh increase in infections from these...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-20
- The ultimate guide to scareware protection
- Throughout the last two years, scareware fake security software, quickly emerged as the single most profitable monetization strategy for cybercriminals to take advantage of. Due to the aggressive advertising practices applied by the cybercrime gangs, thousands of users fall victim to the scam on a daily...
- Blog posts 2009-09-13
- Samsung Rogue SCH-U960 (Verizon Wireless)
- Photo gallery:Samsung RogueSamsung has had mixed results with touch-screen phones with full keyboards. Verizon's Samsung Glyde had its share of faults, but we liked the Samsung Impression for AT&T quite a bit. Fortunately, the new Samsung Rogue for Verizon Wireless is no slouch. Not only is it a touch-screen and...
- Product reviews 2009-09-11
- Give me one good reason not to just move them all to Linux
- RE: Give me one good reason not to just move them all to LinuxAs a roaming tech helper and trainer, I completely concur. Over the past few years, I have moved quite a few of my clients to Mac or Linux and they couldn't be happier. And lately, the infestation...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-09
- (Kaspersky Internet Security 2010)
- Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 $ Download $What is the Purchase cost of the product?Why does a major producer as this give you a product tour via rerouting when you only want one thing ... the cost!I did not want a trail version ... they lost a customer ... do to...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-24
- Rogue Facebook apps steal log-in data, send spam
- Facebook appsI'm already deeply suspicious of facebook apps. Many of them seem to be little more than chain letters ("send this to all of your friends") and many of the "send a drink/snack/smile/ETC" seem to encourage content-free communication. Also, I'm bombarded by "send a drink, ETC" requests from...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-20
- Symantec airs dirty Web sites in public
- Next stepRemove them from the DNS and be done with it.I "Blacklist" many web sites on my local "hosts" file ... especially when they continuously serve pop-ups.Just making this list public doesn't help the average naive web usere stay safe they probably have no idea that this list exists.Stronger measures...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-20
- Nine worst social media fails of 2009... thus far
- Social media has taken the marketing world by storm. Major agencies and internal divisions are hosting think tank sessions to try and come up with witty ideas to market their products and drive customer loyalty. Some of the ideas they come up with are great. But others, let's face it,...
- Blog posts 2009-05-22
- Scareware pops-up at FoxNews
- There have been numerous reports from affected users that a scareware variant of PersonalAntivirus and ExtraAntivirus has been poping-up at FoxNews.com during the last couple of days, through a malvertising campaign. This most recent case of malvertising (MSN Norway serving Flash exploits through malvertising; Fake Antivirus XP...
- Blog posts 2009-04-15
- Paul McCartney's official site serving malware
- All you (don't) need is malware on Paul McCartney's official web site. According to Mary Landesman at ScanSafe, the official web site of Paul McCartney (paulmccartney.com) has been compromised, and is serving live exploits to its visitors. Landesman points out that the compromise might have occurred through...
- Blog posts 2009-04-08
- Microsoft's intelligence security report: The top 5 takeaways
- Microsoft on Wednesday will unveil its sixth Security Intelligence Report and the tome---all 184 pages of it---has a lot of interesting data points culled from the software giant's antivirus applications. Microsoft concludes that rogue security software is a big threat, lost and stolen equipment is a bigger issue than hacking...
- Blog posts 2009-04-08
- USAID.gov compromised, malware and exploits served
- The Azerbaijan section at the United States Agency for International Development (azerbaijan.usaid.gov) has been compromised and is embedded with malware and exploits serving scripts approximately around the 1st of March. The malicious script is taking advantage of a series of redirects which are dynamically loading live exploits, or rogue security...
- Blog posts 2009-03-06
- The return of L0phtCrack
- More than two years after Symantec pulled the plug on L0phtCrack, the venerable password cracking tool is being prepped for a return to the spotlight. The original creators of L0phtCrack has reacquired the tool with plans to release a new version at next week's SOURCE Boston conference....
- Blog posts 2009-03-02
- Massive comment spam attack on Digg.com leads to malware
- According to PandaSecurity, the social news site Digg.com is among the very latest Web 2.0 services to be targeted by cybecriminals on their way to acquire legitimate traffic to their malware serving domains. The ongoing attack is far more widespread the originally stated, with +500,000 bogus comments leading to...
- Blog posts 2009-02-11
- Paris Hilton's official web site serving malware
- The official web site of Paris Hilton (parishilton.com) has been embedded with a malicious iFrame, automatically exposing visitors to client-side vulnerabilities and banker malware, according to researchers from ScanSafe. Upon closer analysis, it appears that the site has been infected on the 8th of January, Thursday, becoming the very latest...
- Blog posts 2009-01-14
- MD5/rogue CA attack: The sky is not falling
- Guest post by John Viega Today there’s been a lot of buzz about the clever new attack on public key infrastructure from Alex Sotirov and a team of researchers.  In the attack, the bad guy ends up with his own Certification Authority CA that is...
- Blog posts 2008-12-31
- SSL broken! Hackers create rogue CA certificate using MD5 collisions
- SSL broken! Hackers create rogue CA certificate using MD5 collisionsAt least they're talking to the vendors first.Now if only the CAs will get off their butts and implement some changes...RE: SSL broken! Hackers create rogue CA certificate using MD5 collisionsпиздёж ёбана, автору фапать 25 разRE: SSL broken! Hackers create rogue...
- Discussion threads 2008-12-30
- SSL broken! Hackers create rogue CA certificate using MD5 collisions
- Using computing power from a cluster of 200 PS3 game consoles and about $700 in test digital certificates, a group of hackers in the U.S. and Europe have found a way to target a known weakness in the MD5 algorithm to create a rogue Certification Authority CA, a breakthrough...
- Blog posts 2008-12-30
- Google sponsored links spreading (scareware) rogue AV
- Google sponsored links spreading scareware rogue AVWhen will we put TEETH into laws on this.You know, its so danged simple to end this entirely but no one seems to have the balls to do it.Find a site hosting this crap block the ENTIRE hosting service from the internet until it...
- Discussion threads 2008-12-16
- Cybercriminals syndicating Google Trends keywords to serve malware
- Cybercriminals syndicating Google Trends keywords to serve malwareLarge networks are increasingly...being used to comprimise the Internet. These commercial networks are too large to be managed by hands-on real people and are being managed by technology. Things are only going to get worse. If these networks can't be properly managed they...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
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