Stocks and Hacks
People are now getting a bit more adventurous in what kind of attacks they perform. This one goes for the root of all evil, money and stock market. An Asian fellow gained access to an Internet brokerage and proceeded to dump all existing holdings and bought for himself lightly traded stocks to inflate the price [...]
Danger danger botnets are coming… to a social network near you!
Well I guess it was only matter of time but there is a worm, koobface (they should have really called it n00bface IMHO) that sends a variety of comments and messages to the friends of anyone infected by the malicious program. There is accompanying link which seems fine but then it asks you to update [...]
Sex, Photos, Scandals…
Well hopefully got your attention here! But the old adage that sex sells and sensationalism grabs punters is always relevant. And these are the little tricks that are used to get people click, download, install malware. In general, people have wised up about download and installing software through malicious hyperlinks in email and websites.
But users [...]
Mac – No DNS patch, No Safari
There is still backlash from Dan Kaminsky and his DNS poisoning find. There is still concern that apple have not got with the programme still. There appear to have a fix for servers but not for clients.
In other news, Mac users have been told to use Firefox or Opera instead of Safari. Safari appear to [...]
USA’s biggest ID fraud cracked
It emerged yesterday that the US authorities charged 11 people in connection with the theft of 40 million credit card numbers and details. They allegedly hacked into the computer systems of several major US retailers and installed software to access account details and passwords. One retailer that was attacked was TJX (TK Maxx) who are [...]
