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- What hath the fabulists wrought?
It’s long been said that science fiction predicts, or at least inspires some of the things which we take for granted every day. While the exact origins of the genre could
- European ATMs struck by hacksploitation movie plot.
When manufacturers of ATMs started using Windows to run them, you just knew that no good would come of it. Eastern European banks discovered this the hard way when the sec
- Conflicker information and links - distribute widely!
As you have probably heard on the news a new beastie has been making its rounds on the Net, infiltrating Windows machines and awaiting the coming of the first of April - A
- Fribet: A RAT that chews holes in SQL servers.
Since the country of China stepped up its activities in Tibet hundreds of pro-Tibet websites have been springing up all across the Net. Predictably, some subset of those s
- A whirlwind recap of the links that piled up in my blogfodder folder.
Medical doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital have discovered that hydrogen sulfide gas can cause the metabolic processes of mammalian cells to drop drastically, thus
- MBR infecting rootkits: All the old things are new again.
It seems as if malware evolves just as fast as biological diseases anymore. Earlier this year, it was made public that batches of flu vaccine were probably ineffective aga
- The Storm Worm botnet learns some new tricks - like phishing.
Scarcely one year after the initial appearance of the Storm Worm and its resulting botnet, some heretofore untapped functionality's been pushed out in one update or anothe
- Ransomware: Pay us $35us or be forever locked out of your box!
Ransomware, malware that forces the user of an infected machine to pay a sum of money to Someone Out There in exchange for regaining access to their data isn't exactly the
- Forged spam from the FTC contains keylogger.
Someone out there apparently takes a dim view of the US Federal Trade Commission going after spammers (when it gets around to it) because they're sending spam forged from
- First weekend update in a while.
For the past couple of weeks, my weekends have been busy enough that there hasn't been much of interest to write about. Not that they weren't interesting interesting, but
- There once was a BBS tagline that read...
.."Old virus detected - contact your hacker for an update." It seems that malware authors have taken this joke seriously, and are offering subscriptions to website operato
- Just when you thought it was safe to run IIS...
Maybe CERT-FI is following in the footsteps of US-CERT (free tip for you guys: 300 bps is obsolete!), which is why it's taken them eight months to say anything about this,
- Malware infestations can be bad, but this takes the taco.
I was wrong, things can get more weird. Malware researcher Joe Stewart has been working on a new infective agent called SpamThru, and discovered some very unusual things a
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