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Thursday Nov 27, 2008

Twists and turns in MySpace suicide case

The mother of the 13-year-old girl who committed suicide following a MySpace hoax said she was satisfied with Wednesday's verdict in the resulting criminal prosecution, even though the jury rejected three felony computer hacking charges against the defendant, convicting her instead of minor misdemeanor counts. The jurors deadlocked on a fourth felony conspiracy charge.
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Posted at 07:33AM Nov 27, 2008 by admin in Offtopic  | 

No Court Order Needed to Spy on Americans Overseas

The Fourth Amendment’s shield against invasive searches reaches only partially across the border, a federal appeals court ruled this week, finding that the nation’s spies don't need a court order to wiretap an American overseas, though there has to be a good reason for listening in.

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Posted at 07:16AM Nov 27, 2008 by admin in Offtopic  | 

Tuesday Nov 25, 2008

Thrird party fix issued for new severe Vista bug

Security experts of Australian firm discovered new vulnerability in Windows Vista Device IO Control (iphlpapi.dll). Details on this flaw were posted to bugtraq on last week. It was confirmed that vulnerability affects both Vista Enterprise & Vista Ultimate 32 bit & 64 bit.
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Posted at 02:38PM Nov 25, 2008 by admin in Security  |  Комментарии[1]

Monday Nov 24, 2008

Script fragmentation attack

Stephan Chenette of Websense describes a brand new web attack vector that could allow hackers to dodge antivirus protection. The technique, called script fragmentation, involves breaking down malware into smaller pieces in order to beat malware analysis engines.
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Posted at 07:54AM Nov 24, 2008 by admin in Security  | 

Friday Nov 14, 2008

Free spyware remover

Sooner or later everyone gets spyware and getting rid of it can be very difficult. Free spyware remover can help.
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Posted at 04:03PM Nov 14, 2008 by admin in Antivirus  |  Комментарии[1]

Tuesday Nov 11, 2008

New standards for antivirus software testing

Anti-Malware Testing Standard Organization (AMTSO) issued on Monday two new interesting publications setting out guidelines for antivirus programs quality assurance procedures. AMTSO published The Fundamental Principles of Testing and Best Practices for Dynamic Testing on its Web site.
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Posted at 03:57PM Nov 11, 2008 by admin in Antivirus  | 

Monday Nov 10, 2008

New chinese trojan hunts for WOW accounts

Chinese hackers attacked over 5k western servers in order to spread a new worm. Most of the servers run Microsoft IIS/ASP and thought to have been hit by SQL injection attack,Kaspersky labs reports.[Read More]

Posted at 12:39PM Nov 10, 2008 by admin in Offtopic  | 

Saturday Nov 08, 2008

MySpace and Facebook users are under attack

Two new worms - Net-Worm.Win32.Koobface.a (targets MySpace) and Net-Worm.Win32.Koobface.b (targets Facebook), known as the Koobface family, are attacking Windows users of these popular social networks.
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Posted at 11:23AM Nov 08, 2008 by admin in Offtopic  | 

WPA-based networks can be compromised in about 15 minutes with new attack approach

Security conference that will be held in Tokyo on 12th and 13th Nov 2008  (PACSEC 2008) has already recieved a great attraction. There will be presented a security research from Martin Beck and Erik Tews as a next (not brute force), new implementation of the WPA-TKIP attack. WPA-TKIP security based on the dynamic key generation was supposed to be unbreakable.
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Posted at 09:15AM Nov 08, 2008 by admin in Security  | 

Thursday Nov 06, 2008

Why you shouldnt pay for antivirus programs anymore

Anti-virus protection software has been a fact of computer users' lives for almost as long as anyone care to remember. But have recent changes in system software design and user behavior made anti-virus software needless? Let's take a good look at the facts... 
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Posted at 03:00PM Nov 06, 2008 by admin in Antivirus  |