Published in March 31st, 2008
A security breach at US grocer Hannaford Bros that compromised around 4.2 million credit and debit card accounts was caused by fraudsters installing malware on servers at all of the retailer’s 300 stores.
Hannaford sent out a letter to Massachusetts regulators late last week. The letter, according to reports, stated that malicious software is to blame [...]
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Published in March 26th, 2008
China is investigating a spam attack after almost half of China’s mobile phone users received unwanted text messages from advertisers.
The State Council, China’s cabinet, affirmed Sunday it is making a thorough investigation into the spammers, who were exposed by an investigative program on China Central Television earlier this month on the World Consumer Rights Day.
The [...]
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Published in March 25th, 2008
According to UK IT magazine PC Pro the Mozilla CEO has accused Apple of coming close to using malware tactics to install the Safari browser on Windows PCs via the iTunes updater.
“Apple has made it incredibly easy—the default, even—for users to install ride along software that they didn’t ask for, and maybe didn’t want. This [...]
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Published in March 20th, 2008
Here are some new viruses with a high threat level. Keep an eye out for these and remember to run a scan.
Backdoor.Cmder.L
Win32.Stufik.A
As always, make sure you are running a decent firewall, keep all of your anti-spyware, anti-virus software up-to-date and run regular scans.
If you notice your computer behaving strangely always scan immediately. Some malware threats [...]
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Published in March 17th, 2008
In todays online world most people have at least 5-10 passwords that they must remember. Many of us will have alot more than that.
With so many different online services, banking, email, social sites etc etc, the number of usernames and passwords can become crazy. If you are managing this by just using one username/password for [...]
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Published in March 12th, 2008
A Home Office official has made public the contents of an internal analysis fmor the Home Office dealing with the question of whether Phorm’s model for targeted advertising is legal under interception of communications legislation.
Trend Micro told The Register: “The nature of Phorm’s monitoring of all user web activity is certainly of some concern, and [...]
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Published in March 6th, 2008
A computer virus attack may have exposed the personal information of more than 11,000 people who donated to a Central Oregon hospital system.
Hospital officials say it is not clear whether any of the information was seen by individuals outside the hospital, the Bulletin reported. The hospital announced Wednesday that the virus may have exposed the [...]
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Published in March 5th, 2008
Malware Crush is very annoying malware that once installed on a system will constantly display fake spyware infection alerts in an attempt to get users to purchase the commercial version. These alerts can be in the form of popups, security warnings, tray balloon notifications etc.
These are the signs of MalwareCrush infection:
If you run HijackThis:
O4 – [...]
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Published in March 3rd, 2008
Cyber-crooks are looking for ways to test their creations before distributing them. An investigation conducted by the malware analysis and detection laboratory at Panda Security, has shown that cyber-crooks are collaborating on different forums and pages to develop test-tools that replicate the scans of some of the leading security solutions.
The underground tools are technically similar [...]
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