All Entries Tagged With: "malware"
Would you like a Trojan with that pirated software?
Cyber criminals know that often times people want to get their hands on the latest and greatest software prior to its official release. As a result, these hackers have been known to modify this software and post it to the Internet for unsuspecting people to download. The modifications that they make include methods [...]
Lots of Malware Out There
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250,000 malicious sites created daily
60% of these poisoned web pages are live for around 24 hours
Botnet Growth Worldwide
Several organizations monitor the growth of compromised systems and botnet growth. According to McAfee “Cybercriminals have taken control of almost 12 million new IP addresses in Q1 2009, a 50 percent increase over the previous quarter. The United States is now home to the largest percentage of botnet-infected computers, hosting 18 percent of all [...]
Hospitals are infected with Conficker
There is a very interesting article discussing how Conficker spread to medical devices and systems in many hospitals in the U.S. and abroad. Many are still baffled by how some of these systems even got infected in the first place. The devices include those of MRI machines, heart monitoring systems, and more. [...]
Record Breaking Malware Growth
According to the latest report by F-Secure, malware has had explosive growth during the last half of 2008 with trends continuing into 2009.
The report sites that 2007 doubled over the previous 2006 records, and 2008 more than tripled the 2007 numbers in total malware instances found. The database with signature based definitions [...]
Want to see what other people TXT? Don’t Fall For It.
Websense has recently detected a new scam aimed at infecting systems with malware. The scam includes an email that tells people that by clicking a link and installing and application, they can see other peoples SMS messages. So slooths and wood be snoops are in danger of infection if they aren’t careful. [...]
Conficker Update
Conficker infected 700 computers at the University of Utah including several hospital systems. An organization like that should know better and have policies and procedures in place for patching…especially when patches have been available for over 6 months. There just really isn’t any excuse.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30179873/
http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_12118088
The Easiest Way to Detect Conficker Compromised Systems
I was impressed with a method that some have developed to detect (in a very simple way) if your system is infected with Conficker. Certainly there are many tools out there, but nothing quite as simple as this. Go out to this website. Click on the “Eye Chart” link. Based on [...]
Why you don’t need to worry about Conficker on April 1
The world is not going to end tomorrow. Nor is the Internet going to come to a screaching halt. Nor is everyone going to wake up with their hand in a bowl of warm water.
Everyone is worried about Conficker and the new variant “C” going into effect on April 1. [...]
Financial Data Breach Study by Kevin Prince of Perimeter eSecurity
A new financial institution data breach study has recently been published by Kevin Prince of Perimeter eSecurity. It analyzes breaches between 2000 and 2008. While several aspects of the study deserve individual discussion and attention, it is interesting that Kevin Prince did a podcast interview with BankInfoSecurity. In the podcast Kevin answers [...]