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What Is SystemLookup.com? (1)

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BestTechie.net (2) 5 days, 9 hours ago permalink

SystemLookup.com is a new site that is dedicated to determining whether a file is good or bad - meaning whether it is safe to have on your computer or if it is a malicious file. The site is still brand new and is constantly being updated with new file listings. It currently has listings for over 54,000 files. The lists are divided into different categories pertaining to different types of files from Explorer / Internet ...

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IRVL's XP Antivirus 2008 + Exploit (1)

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Offensive Computing - Community Malicious code research and analysis (2) 6 days, 7 hours ago permalink

While stepping through malicious domains I noticed that the “International Virus Research Lab” (IVRL) pages for XP Antivirus 2008 had changed hashes. I was looking at hxxp://bestantivi... at the time and noticed the inclusion of an IFRAME pointing to hxxp://huytegygle.com/index.php. Click to see the full post.... Files: 8bb859824df2a4492877dd99d2437f8d a2a6455a4da0192fb8efe85e98fd3dfa[via exploit] read more

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Inside India's CAPTCHA solving economy (28)

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Zero Day (5) 6 days, 8 hours ago permalink

Staying on top of the latest in software/hardware security research, vulnerabilities, threats and computer attacks.

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Dileepa said: Will the Govt. of India wake up and shutdown these companies? It's got to be done considering the security implications.
Noah said: Lengthy, but worth the read...

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El malware arriba a l'espai (1)

by Xavier Caballé (2) on

L’home dibuixat (2) 1 week ago permalink

[BBC] Computer viruses make it to orbit. Els ordinadors de l'Estació Espacial Internacional estan contaminats pel cuc Gammina.AG, que tracta de robar els identificadors d'accés a diversos jocs online. Es creu que va arribar amb el portàtil d'un dels astronautes i que després ha infectat la resta d'ordinadors a través de memòries USB.

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Chinese hacker malware infects International Space Station? (2)

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The Dark Visitor (0) 1 week ago permalink

Breaking news is that the International Space Station has been infected by the W32.Gammima.AG trojan. The trojan is also referred to as the kavo.exe virus and is designed to gather information on ten online games: ZhengTu Wanmi Shijie or Perfect World Dekaron Siwan Mojie HuangYi Online Rexue Jianghu ROHAN Seal Online Maple Story R2 (Reign of Revolution) Talesweaver Not familiar with all the games but most are Chinese or Korean. Chinese hackers specialize in stealing ...

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SQL Injection Attack (1)

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Col's Tech Stuff (0) 1 week ago permalink

Someone’s been attempting to perform a SQL injection attack on my websites, but thankfully without much luck. I was running through my error and access logs this morning (whilst trying to troubleshoot an issue) and spotted this rather strange entry, well 16 of them this morning alone: 24.47.218.244 - - [28/Aug/2008:05:59:13 +0000] “GET /blog/saffer-brings-veggies-to-life /?’;DECLARE%20@S%20CHAR(4000);SET%20@S=CAST(0×4445 …[truncated for brevity]… %20AS%20CHAR(4000));EXEC(@S); HTTP/1.1″ 200 6191 “-” “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; FunWebProducts; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)” The ...

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ถึงอยู่นอกโลกก็หลบไม่พ้น malware (1)

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Blognone (25) 1 week ago permalink

NASA รายงานว่าเครื่องคอมพิวเตอร์แบบพกพาบน International Space Station (ISS) ถูกตรวจพบ malware อยู่และนี่ไม่ใช่ครั้งแรกที่มีการพบไวรัสและหนอนคอมพิวเตอร์ในวงโคจร เรื่องนี้ถูกรายงานโดย เจ้าหน้าที่ Sergey Volkov เขาเขียนรายงานสถานะประจำวันหลังจากตรวจพบ malware ด้วยโปรแกรม Norton Antivirus ขณะที่กำลังดูภาพจากการ์ดหน่วยความจำบนเครื่องคอมพิวเตอร์พกพาสัญชาติรัสเซียชื่อ RSS-2 งานนี้ Norton ได้หน้าไปเต็มๆอย่างน้อยก็สองเรื่องคือคุณภาพดีจนผ่านการคัดเลือกให้ไปใช้บนอวกาศและตรวจพบ malware นอกโลก(malware นี้ไม่ได้มาจากนอกโลกนะครับ) ที่มา - ComputerWorld

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Intel ships BIOS fix for Rutkowska’s Black Hat flaw (1)

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Zero Day (5) 1 week, 1 day ago permalink

Intel has shipped a BIOS update with a fix for a privilege escalation vulnerability that was used by rootkit researcher Joanna Rutkowska to bluepill the Xen hypervisor. The vulnerability was discussed by Rutkowska at the Black Hat briefings earlier this month but details on the exploit were withheld until Intel could release its patch. That patch is [...]

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How to check if your antivirus is working [ Antivirus ] (3)

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Technospot.net (5) 1 week, 1 day ago permalink

Most of the time we just install the antivirus or the anti Malware programs and relax that they are working fine and one fine morning you see things not working and finally you realize that its your antivirus program which was not working at all. Here is a small test which you can do in case you are not sure if your antivirus program is working fine or not. #1 Open Notepad and paste this ...

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ISS: Virus a bordo (3)

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Kriptópolis - Criptografía, Privacidad y Seguridad en Internet (1) 1 week, 1 day ago permalink

La NASA ha confirmado que el gusano W32.Gammima.AG (que roba datos de acceso para juegos "on line" e intenta enviarlos a un servidor central) ha sido detectado a bordo de la Estación Espacial Internacional (ISS), a donde presumiblemente llegó alojado en el portátil de uno de los astronautas incorporados en Julio, y desde el que se propagó, al parecer vía USB, a varios portátiles maś de la tripulación. Los ordenadores de la ISS no están ...

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Malware detected at the International Space Station (1)

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Zero Day (5) 1 week, 2 days ago permalink

Malware is reaching new heights, and going into Space through a removable media carrying the W32.Gammima.AG password stealing malware to the International Space Station. According to SpaceRef.com : “W32.Gammima.AG worm is a level 0 gaming virus intended to gather personal information. Virus was never a threat to any of the computers used for cmd and cntl [...]

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Spammers Have Resorted to Kidnapping My Baby (1)

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Michael On Security (0) 1 week, 2 days ago permalink

My morning inbox contained an email with the following subject: “We have hijacked your baby”. The body is as so: Hey We have hijacked your baby but you must pay once to us $50 000. The details we will send later… We has attached photo of your fume And of course, a zip file was attached containing some sort of malicious executable archived within a zip. This was certainly one of the more entertaining pieces ...

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Twitter’s “me too” anti-spam strategy (1)

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Zero Day (5) 1 week, 3 days ago permalink

With Twitter’s continuing growth, its popularity is logically starting to attract the attention of malicious parties, like spammers, phishers, and malware authors who wouldn’t mind the fact that nobody is following them when they’re actively updating several hundred users with their latest propositions. Last’ week’s Twitter announcement that it’s “Turning Up The Heat On Spam” clearly [...]

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Intego Removes Penultimate Hurdle to Corporate iPhone Adoption (Plus: TAB Contest!) (2)

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The Apple Blog (42) 1 week, 3 days ago permalink

Despite Apple’s enterprise nod with the iPhone OS 2.0 feature set there are two fairly glaring omissions that make it difficult to use the iPhone in a corporate setting: the lack of encryption of the file system as a whole (or even just the message store) and the lack of available on-board virus scanners for the device (despite promises from prominent vendors). Without the former, it is nigh impossible to store client or customer data ...

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Fedora Live USB Creator (2)

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Network Security Blog (2) 1 week, 4 days ago permalink

I’ve had this article flagged on Lifehacker for over 4 months, waiting for the right time to use it. When a friend brought over his computer for repair, I took one look at the running system and realized it needs to be rebuilt from scratch. His hardware’s good, but the OS is infected beyond trusting. I’m hoping I can save a few pictures for him, but that’s about it. In the mean time, I decided ...

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محافظت سیستم در مقابل تروجان ها Anti-Trojan Elite 4.1.2 (1)

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Tiny Download | سایت تخصصی نرم افزار (0) 1 week, 5 days ago permalink

Anti-Trojan Elite برنامه برای پاک کردن و محافظت سیستم شما در مقابل تروجان ها و بدافزار ها می باشد که می تواند به راحتی بد افزار ها و تروجان ها را در حافظه سیستم و یا کول دیسک ها پیدا کرده و آن را پاک کند تا سیستم شما را آلوده نکنند . بد افزار ها , نرم افزار هایی هستند که مخصوصا برای خسارت زدن و یا به هم ریختن سیستم ها طراحی و ...

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Red Hat (belatedly) confirms security breach (3)

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Zero Day (5) 1 week, 5 days ago permalink

More than a week after a cryptic note hinted at a security breach at Fedora, the open-source group has finally fessed up to two separate server intrusions that compromised the security of Red Hat’s OpenSSH packages. The confirmation follows eight days of media speculation and conjecture over a brief e-mail that simply mentioned “an issue in [...]

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Facebook: "Los gusanos no son un problema para nosotros" (1)

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Noticias de Seguridad Informática (10) 1 week, 6 days ago permalink

Por Rosalía Arroyo La semana pasada se alertaba de un virus que utiliza las redes sociales de Facebook y MySpace para propagarse. Max Kelly, director de seguridad de Facebook ha advertido a los usuarios que si realmente creen que tienen un gusano o virus en sus ordenadores deberían contactar con Microsoft o Apple. “Si tu PC o Mac está infectado con malware o virus, comprueba estos sitios”, escribía Kelly en el blog de la compañía ...

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Typosquatting the U.S presidential election - a security risk? (2)

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Zero Day (5) 1 week, 6 days ago permalink

Cybercriminals know how to take advantage of anticipated traffic by abusing the momentum of a particular event, like the U.S presidential election in this case. Everyone, from scammers coming up with legitimately looking donation sites that they will later on spam, to the a bit more complex blackhat search engine optimization campaigns used in order [...]

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Removing Malware With a Live CD [Didier Stevens] [Belgian Security Blognetwork] (2)

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Security Bloggers Network (23) 2 weeks ago permalink

Since a month, I’ve been advising the use of the F-Secure Rescue CD to readers and friends. That makes it time for a little video, showing you how to use it. YouTube, Vimeo (better quality) and XviD hires (even better quality).

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