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Today’s crime and punishment security news: police in Canada have busted a hacker ring that is believed to have run a botnet of up to one million zombie PCs, involving 100 countries around the globe.
Following an investigation of organized cyber crime, police arrested 17 people in what they say is the largest hacking scam in [...]
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Guest writer: Mattias (Love you Mark!)
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Identity theft is a big business. This was confirmed by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s annual report, Consumer Fraud and Identity Theft Complaint Data, which shows fraud complaints that consumers have filed with the agency over the past year. Again this year, identity theft tops the list of all fraud complaints. In fact, the FTC [...]
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Home computer users are not the only ones forced to wage the war against cyber threats. Malware attacks constitute a critical and constant security risk to corporate networks. The staggering statistics speak for themselves: as many as 40 percent of organizations will be targeted by financially-motivated cyber crime by 2008, research from Gartner shows.
Today’s threat [...]
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For those of you who are old enough to remember Roseanne Roseannadanna on Saturday Night Live, ”My father always used to say, it’s always something. If it’s not one thing, it’s another”
Microsoft is pushing their weight around. We’ve got Ad-Aware customers contacting us left and right because Microsoft is telling them to uninstall their Ad-Aware software [...]
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Today, February 12, is Safer Internet Day in many countries throughout Europe. In connection with that, Eurostat, an office of the European Communities, has released stats on Internet activities.
Results from surveys of households and individuals in the European Union show that:
One person in eight avoids e-shopping because of security concerns.
In 2007, nearly a quarter of Internet [...]
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Time for a little shameless self-promotion. In a security software review by Swedish TechWorld.se, Ad-Aware 2007 has been ranked number one on its list of recommended anti-spyware programs, beating out Windows Defender and Spybot Search and Destroy. In fact, Ad-Aware 2007 earned 94 points out of a 100 point grade scale.
Since the article is in Swedish, [...]
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Who’s responsible for those unwanted messages flooding our inboxes? According to a recent report, there has been a considerable shift in where spam originates from; European spam networks are now said to be pumping out more unsolicited messages than those in the U.S.
On a global level, a major contributor to rising spam levels is botnets [...]
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Last week, along with other groups, security companies, and government agencies combating spyware and malware, members of the Lavasoft team attended the Anti-Spyware Coalition Public Workshop in Washington, DC.
We also had the opportunity to lend our own expertise - Lavasoft malware researcher Janie Whitty, aka Calamity Janie, was a guest speaker on the User Behavior & [...]
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Almost daily now we come across a website that was obviously set up to take advantage of the unfortunate soul that lands on their page.
Here’s an example of a page that is serving up a triple threat! Click on the image for a larger view.
First, they lure you in through the title “Lavasoft adware”. Our product [...]
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For those interested in learning more about the anatomy of today’s phishing scams, Net-Security.org has an interview with two security researchers who are speaking out about the phishing underground.
From the article:
“What started as a simple examination of phishing sites, turned into an extraordinary view of the ecosystem that supports the phishing effort that plagues modern [...]
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What is public and private data when it comes to our online lives? How much information should your search engine be able to record about you?
Following a recent European Parliament hearing on online data protection, specific questions on Internet Protocol (IP) addresses have been raised.
According to the head of the E.U.’s group of data privacy regulators, IP [...]
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Visual artist Alex Dragulescu has created a set of aesthetic, organic-looking visualizations of malware.
“For each piece of disassembled code, API calls, memory addresses and subroutines are tracked and analyzed. Their frequency, density and grouping are mapped to the inputs of an algorithm that grows a virtual 3D entity. Therefore the patterns and rhythms found in [...]
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For those of us in the online security industry, we don’t question the fact that cyber crime is a real threat to consumers. And anyone who has been a victim of data theft can attest that security is nothing to scoff at.
We’ve come across a story, thanks to a heads up from our friends over at CSIA, [...]
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