September 27th, 2008 by admin
There’s a DNSchanger Trojan horse malware on the loose which is causing slow surfing in Mac OS X, says MacFixIt. Some Mac OS X users have noticed browsing has become, “exceptionally slow,” especially compared to other computers on the same network which seem to browse at normal speeds, according to this story. While some people had recently […]
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September 18th, 2008 by admin
According to Reuters, McAfee says Brad Pitt and Beyonce are the most dangerous celebrities to search for online, “because cybercriminals use their names to lure victims”. Fans, “searching for information and pictures of Pitt, or downloads, wallpaper and screen savers, have an 18 percent chance of having their PCs infected with a virus, spyware, spam, phishing […]
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September 17th, 2008 by admin
According to Reuters, McAfee says Brad Pitt and Beyonce are the most dangerous celebrities to search for online, “because cybercriminals use their names to lure victims”. Fans, “searching for information and pictures of Pitt, or downloads, wallpaper and screen savers, have an 18 percent chance of having their PCs infected with a virus, spyware, spam, phishing […]
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September 16th, 2008 by admin
united.com, bankofamerica.com, register.com, netflix.com are a few of the sites which appear to be vulnerable to CookieMonster, a new tool able to siphon users’ authentication credentials - even through supposedly secure channels. So says its creator, Mike Perry, quoted by The Register. It’s used in a, “variety of man-in-the-middle scenarios to trick a victim’s browser into turning […]
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September 15th, 2008 by admin
united.com, bankofamerica.com, register.com, netflix.com are a few of the sites which appear to be vulnerable to CookieMonster, a new tool able to siphon users’ authentication credentials - even through supposedly secure channels. So says its creator, Mike Perry, quoted by The Register. It’s used in a, “variety of man-in-the-middle scenarios to trick a victim’s browser into turning […]
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September 13th, 2008 by admin
Have you had any iTunes 8 related BSODs on Vista? If you have, ZDNet’s Adrian Kingsley-Hughes wants to know. “I’m getting sporadic reports that Apple’s latest iTunes 8 media applications is causing Vista systems to experience BSODs (Blue Screens of Death),” he post, going on: I’ve tried replicating a BSOD on both Vista 32-bit and Vista 64-bit using […]
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September 5th, 2008 by admin
UK police, “have embarrassingly lost control of the National High-Tech Crime Unit website,” says PC Pro. The unit was folded into the Serious Organised Crime Unit (SOCA) a couple of years ago, but, “it appears the police have let the domain registration lapse, and it has now been picked up by an opportunistic German owner, Uwe […]
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