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Monthly Archives: February 2009
Google Bucking the Trend?
The other day I blogged about Google Trends being abused to serve malware. The attackers were not only targeting the most popular search terms, but also manipulating Google’s page rankings to appear high up on search results. It appears that Google may have squashed those attacks, at least at the moment. The pages that were Read more…
Google Trends Abused to Serve Malware
The other day a worm, often referred to as “Error Check System” was spreading on Facebook. In fact if you searched for information on this threat, your search results were poisoned to lead unsuspecting victims to a site that attempts to install a rogue anti-spyware Trojan. Some folks blogged that this search connection was “too much Read more…
New Excel Trojan Hits the Net
– Update Feb 24, 10:15 PDT – Microsoft has released a security advisory for this issue (CVE-2009-0238): http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/968272.mspx Many versions of Excel are vulnerable, including 2000, 2002, 2003, 2007, 2004/2008 for Mac, Excel Viewer/Excel Viewer 2003.  – A Trojan exploiting an unpatched Microsoft Excel vulnerability has been reported from the field. McAfee Avert Labs has confirmed Read more…
What Have We Learned From Past Virus Infections?
The year 2009 has so far have a been hectic one for anti-virus vendors and IT administrators alike, “thanks” to two prolific malware families: W32/Conficker and W32/Virut. Malware researchers and field engineers have literally burned the midnight oil to ensure networks are protected against these threats. Some of the organizations that were hit with these Read more…
Running Windows Malware in Linux
For the unaware, Wine is an application that enables users to run Windows applications on Unix-like computers. Like many users, I use Wine on my Linux machine to run a couple of Windows applications I cannot do without. I could run these applications on a virtual machine, or even dual-boot with Windows and Linux, but Read more…
Tags: Linux, Linux and Windows
Malware Riding on the Tides of the Economic Crisis
A new spam run is on the loose, misusing the global economic crisis as its social-engineering vector. Consumers looking for a bargain should take care, because the bad guys exactly want to fool people trying to save some money these days. Spam mails promoting bargains, which could help in the recession, are hitting the inboxes Read more…
New BackDoor Attacks Using PDF Documents
Needless to further remind everyone, zero-day attacks are the preferred choice of cyber criminals and will continue to be so in 2009. If the recent W32/Conficker.worm (MS08-087) and Exploit-XMLhttp.d (MS08-078, MS09-002) were not good enough to prove our point, here is another one. At the turn of 2009, malicious PDF documents were discovered to be Read more…
Oscar fans: Best actor and actress may put your PC at risk
Are you excited to watch the Oscars this Sunday? I have three more movies I would like to see and not enough hours in the week! You all know how that is, right? Well, I probably won’t get the chance to see any more films this week unless they are showing one on my plane Read more…
Tags: Cyber Security Mom, Family Safety
Popular dating sites being used as selling technique
In the last year or so, I’ve been a single guy searching, of course, for my long lost love. I wanted to touch base on something that may be happening more and more as the social networks and dating sites become ever more popular. I joined a dating site (that will remain nameless) about a Read more…
Tags: fraud
Parents, take back the control in online gaming
It’s time to talk with your kids about game safety. No, I don’t mean checking before swinging a bat or wearing protecting gear in a football scrimmage. All handheld gaming devices and desktop gaming devices have Internet capability too. Some require a paid subscription. Others require additional accessories. But all can connect to wifi routers. Read more…
Tags: Family Safety