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Category Archives: Security
New Zealand convicts 18-year-old botherder
18-year-old New Zealander, Owen Thor Walker, pleaded guilty earlier this week to six charges of using computers for illegal purposes. Walker, has been accused of playing a key role in a gang that infected 1.3 million computers around the world, … Continue reading
Perfect Password Process
The problem that I’m trying to solve … using a different, strong password for each online account (or more precisely managing it, so that it doesn’t go belly-up when I want to log in to site X, Y or Z). … Continue reading
FBI roasts more botherders
In a previous post I blogged about an FBI bot-roast. Well, now they’ve conducted the second phase, bot roast II, which has revealed more than $20 million in economic loss and more than one million victim computers. As a result, … Continue reading
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Tagged botnets, botroast, bots, fbi, robotnetworks, Security
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VPN for iPhone
HotSpotVPN is available for the iPhone.
Trojan infects Mac OS X, with users consent
A trojan horse has been identified that can affect (and infect) Mac OS X. Intego has named this malware the OSX.RSPlug.A Trojan Horse (Intego’s press release). It has been found on several pornography web sites, claiming to install a video … Continue reading
Confidential data lost by the Revenue
Confidential data lost by the Revenue – Daily Telegraph, November 9, 2007. HM Revenue & Customs has lost thousands of people’s confidential data on a computer disc that went missing on its way to Standard Life’s pensions department. Names, National … Continue reading
Worm targets Skype on Windows
Skype has learned that a computer virus called “w32/Ramex.A” is affecting users of Skype for Windows. Users whose computers are infected with this virus will send a chat message to other Skype users asking them to click on a web … Continue reading
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How botherders make money
Security blog www.security-watchdog.co.uk has a great video showing the types of adware and spyware that botherders seek to install on your PC. In the video David Marcus from McAffee shows how a system can be infected by half a dozen … Continue reading
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PayPal introduces OTP dongle in US, Germany and Australia
If you have a US, German or Australian PayPal account you can sign up for a PayPal Security Key. This additional layer of security means that you have to ‘know’ something (your password) and ‘have’ something (the dongle). The dongle … Continue reading
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Macs better, ASA rules
I picked this up from issue 185 of MacFormat. In a response to complaints about Apple’s ‘Get A Mac’ campaign, the Advertising Standards Agency stated … We understood that Macs that did not run Microsoft Windows contracted fewer viruses than … Continue reading
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