Archive for December 29th, 2009

Seen in the wild: Specialty phishing

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009
Seen in the wild: Specialty phishing

From a site that is hacked and serving phishes:What’s mildly interesting is the types of phishes — “speciality phishes” that are not your typical banking/finance scam. These are phishes that are highly targeted, in this case at email systems o... »

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2010 prediction roundup

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009
2010 prediction roundup

It’s the time of year to make predictions. I only have one: in 2010, governments around the world will BEGIN to increase their efforts to do something about the massive malware threat that every Internet user on the planet faces.It’s going to be co... »

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Results of Investigation into Holiday IIS Claim

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009
Results of Investigation into Holiday IIS Claim

We’ve completed our investigation into the claims that came up over the holiday of a possible vulnerability in IIS and found that there is no vulnerability in IIS. What we have seen is that there is an inconsistency in IIS 6 only in how it handles semicolons in URLs. It’s this inconsistency that the claims... »

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GreatDefender

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009
GreatDefender

GreatDefender is a great big scam. GreatDefender is the latest rogue antispyware software, or phony security program that rips people off. If GreatDefender has infected your computer, do not buy the software, you should remove it immediately.GreatDef... »

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