Gumblar Invades Best Buy
Earlier today, Trend Micro Technical Account Manager Fioravante Souza in Brazil spotted a (potentially harmful) URL that redirects users from the Best Buy domain site.
Users who visit www.bestbuy.com, as it turns out, are redirected to the URL, hxxp://pics. bubbled.cn/gallery/
hardcore/?23c4f60c1b9f604d6ffb21cba599301f (hxxp = http, and without the spaces). The compromised page in the domain is found to [...]
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Spam Speculates Michael Jackson’s Murder
Michael Jackson has been dead for a week already, but there are still a lot of speculations regarding his death. The spam runs are plenty as well — a Michael Jackson-related spam was seen bearing the subject Who killed Michael Jackson?, coming from a sender named x-files.
The spam message suggests that the icon was killed, [...]
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Spam Speculates Michael Jackson’s Murder
Three Months Later: Where’s DOWNAD?
Exactly three months ago, the whole IT sector was waiting with bated breath for April 1. The latest DOWNAD/Conficker variant–WORM_DOWNAD.KK–was poised to strike. We know that on that day, it would attempt to access 500 of 50,000 websites and download new malicious files. This led to fears–somewhat misplaced–that new, possibly damaging payloads could cause severe [...]
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Three Months Later: Where’s DOWNAD?
To *** or Not to Mask: Usability Versus Security in Password Masking
On June 23, Jakob Nielsen posted an article declaring that password masking on the user interface is more harmful in terms of usability than helpful to the security of an application to which Bruce Schneier, in a June 26 blog post agreed. Both argued that masking the characters when a user enters a password is [...]
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To *** or Not to Mask: Usability Versus Security in Password Masking
Michael Jackson Video Leads to Malware Download
Cybercriminals once again used the passing of Michael Jackson, the ‘King of Pop,’ a few days ago as an opportunity to go about with their malicious activities and attack innocent users.
We spotted an email (see Figure 1 below) about Michael Jackson’s death written in Spanish claiming to be from CNN Mexico.
Upon closer analysis (see Figure [...]
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