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Mac OS X Trojan causes system slow-down

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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Brad Pitt: internet?s most dangerous celebrity

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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Brad Pitt: internet?s most dangerous celebrity

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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Meet CookieMonster

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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Meet CookieMonster

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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iTunes 8 Blue Screen of Death

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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UK cops lose high-tech crime site

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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