admin @ October 31, 2007 # No Comment Yet
The spam run began on 17 October and lasted about 36 hours, using infected computers in the Storm Worm network to send out the mails, MessageLabs said in a statement released on Tuesday. The spam sounded strange because the voice in the message was “synthesised using a very low compression rate of 16KHz to […]
admin @ October 31, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Unsurprisingly, it is SlySoft who have had a hand in the cracking, so a new version of AnyDVD HD should be available before the new year. Said software will allow the backing up of Blu-ray movies to a hard drive or the direct copy of discs and other similarly nefarious activities. Of course […]
admin @ October 25, 2007 # No Comment Yet
The Center for Identity Management and Information Protection (CIMIP) has released the first -ever study of closed United States Secret Service cases dealing with identity theft.
Organized group activity took place in 42 percent of the cases, involving 2-45 offenders. In about half of those cases the Internet was used to commit the crime. Just […]
admin @ October 25, 2007 # No Comment Yet
The Storm worm is fighting back against security researchers that seek to destroy it and has them running scared, Interop New York show attendees heard this week.
The worm can figure out which users are trying to probe its command-and-control servers, and it retaliates by launching DDoS attacks against them, shutting down their internet access for […]
admin @ October 18, 2007 # No Comment Yet
A DEFIANT head teacher has increased security measures and vowed not to be beaten by burglars after his school was raided for the second time in two weeks.
Thieves smashed their way into the learning support office at The Friary School, in Eastern Avenue, Lichfield, and stole more than pounds 1,500 worth of electrical equipment, […]
admin @ October 18, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Security analysts are warning of another malicious software program masquerading as an installer file for Skype.
The program sends the victim’s Skype credentials, as well as any other logins or passwords stored in Internet Explorer, to another server, writes Villu Arak, a Skype spokesman based in Tallinn, Estonia, on a Skype blog.
Skype, the VoIP (voice […]
admin @ October 14, 2007 # One Comment
The IronKey is a hardware-based, high-grade encrypted USB drive, produced by a company of the same name, IronKey Inc. It was made with the idea in mind that there’s a growing tendency for people to carry their data, documents and their applications with them on a USB drive.
This product is also a sort […]
admin @ October 14, 2007 # No Comment Yet
There’s a much under-hyped and overlooked set of Windows security tools that you should be taking advantage of as a Windows administrator. You’ve already paid for them but may not realize that you have them. I’m talking about a handful of nifty command-line tools that are extremely powerful in practically any information security […]
admin @ October 12, 2007 # No Comment Yet
“I’m one of those early adopters of Vista,” said Yvonne Genovese, an analyst who was interviewing Ballmer along with fellow analyst David Smith on stage at a conference forum. “My daughter comes in one day and says, ‘Hey Mom, my friend has Vista, and it has these neat little things called gadgets — I […]
admin @ October 12, 2007 # No Comment Yet
The mother of a 14-year-old home-schooled student who had a cache of guns, knives and explosive devices in his bedroom was charged Friday with six counts for buying him three weapons.
Michele Cossey bought her son a .22-caliber handgun, a .22-caliber rifle and a 9 mm semiautomatic rifle, authorities said.
The teenager felt bullied and tried to […]
admin @ October 11, 2007 # No Comment Yet
I had mentioned this a while ago in a conversation with a friend that these computerized cars would eventually be the subject of some potentially serious problems
Hackers Could Shut Down Car Engines!
Some people just have no idea what they are doing. Here we go again – this is another case of overzealous security that […]
admin @ October 11, 2007 # No Comment Yet
I had mentioned this a while ago in a conversation with a friend that these computerized cars would eventually be the subject of some potentially serious problems
Hackers Could Shut Down Car Engines!
Some people just have no idea what they are doing. Here we go again – this is another case of overzealous security that […]
admin @ October 8, 2007 # No Comment Yet
In the US, a hacker has been jailed for two years after breaching security at 15 separate telcos with incredible ease.
At the trial, AT&T reported that Robert Moore ran six million scans on its network […]
admin @ October 8, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Spammers are exploiting YouTube’s “Invite your Friends” facility to send spam containing a Storm Trojan from the video sharing site. Bradley Anstis, director of product management at security firm Marshal, said that YouTube users can invite their friends to view videos that they are looking at or have posted. Using the facility gives them the […]
admin @ October 1, 2007 # No Comment Yet
AT&T has rolled out new Terms of Service for its DSL service that leave plenty of room for interpretation. From our reading of it, in concert with several others, what we see is a ToS that attempts to give AT&T the right to disconnect its own customers who criticize the company on blogs or […]
