Security Fix: July 26, 2009 - August 1, 2009
Following the Money: Rogue Anti-virus Software
By its very nature, the architecture and limited rules governing the Web make it difficult to track individuals who might be involved in improper activity. Cyber-sleuths often must navigate through a maze of dead-end records, pseudonyms or anonymous corporations, usually...
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July 31, 2009; 1:13 PM ET |
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Web Fraud 2.0
| Tags: 3fn rogue antivirus, chronopay, crutop
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Critical Update for Adobe Flash Player
Adobe Systems Inc. today issued a security update to its Flash player to plug at least a dozen security holes in the software, including some that hackers have been using in to break into vulnerable systems. The latest update brings...
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Brian Krebs
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July 30, 2009; 8:06 PM ET |
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Latest Warnings
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| Tags: adobe flash patch 0day
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Clampi Trojan: The Rise of Matryoshka Malware
Last week, Security Fix told the online banking saga of Slack Auto Parts, a company in Georgia that lost nearly $75,000 at the hands of an extremely sophisticated malicious software family known as "Clampi". I only mentioned the malware in...
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Brian Krebs
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July 30, 2009; 3:06 PM ET |
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Fraud
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From the Bunker
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Small Business Victims
| Tags: clampi, matryoshka malware
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Weaponizing Web 2.0
Imagine simply visiting a Web forum and finding that doing so forced your browser to post an embarrassing Twitter message to all of your contacts, or caused you to admit a stranger to your online social network. Now consider the...
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Brian Krebs
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July 29, 2009; 3:15 PM ET |
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From the Bunker
| Tags: black hat 2009
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Report: First Lady Safehouse Route, Govt. Mafia Trial Info, Leaked on P2P Networks
Update, 2:15 p.m. ET: A previous version of this story incorrectly stated that files were found on P2P networks that listed the location of nuclear missile silos in the United States. A spokesman for the committee said the information regarding...
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Brian Krebs
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July 29, 2009; 12:20 PM ET |
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Microsoft's Emergency Patch Mess
Microsoft today released a pair of emergency software updates (Redmond calls them "out-of-band" updates). Yes, that's right folks: If you use Windows -- and especially if you browse the Web with Internet Exploder Explorer - it's once again time to...
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Brian Krebs
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July 28, 2009; 5:52 PM ET |
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| Tags: 0day, ie, microsoft patch
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