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Yesterday Twitter got some problems with injected code redirecting users to other sites and also showing pop-up windows. Most of us see Twitter (and other big sites) as trusted sites, but this shows that you need to be careful out there. Continue Reading
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The latest version of the trojan Zeus has done unauthorized withdrawals from about 3,000 UK bank accounts since the trojan was first discovered on July 5th. According to Computer Weekly the amount that has been transfered to Eastern Europe is about £675,000! The trojan steal victims' online banking ID and hijack their online banking sessions, [...] Continue Reading
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The infamous bot network Asprox has been dormant for a couple for months now, but recently it started waking up again. The botnet is currently searching for vulnerable servers and websites to infect and the reason is to infect the visitors computers with harmful code. In May/June this botnet was able to infect more than [...] Continue Reading
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One of the hackers, Maksym Yastremskiy, that hacked the network at TJX Maxx and got access to over 40 million credit card numbers got sentenced to 30 years in prison. During 2005 they hacked the wire-less network at TJX Maxx hacked and by using trojans and other spyware programs they could get access to all credit [...] Continue Reading
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A new trojan called Troj/Qhost-AC is blocking access to file sharing sites like The Pirate Bay, Mininova and Suprbay. The trojan is said to be a keygen to unlock pirated software and when it's installed on the computer it's changing the host file in Windows to redirect some file sharing sites to the local computer [...] Continue Reading
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Many of you may never have heard about Microsofts antivirus software Windows Live Onecare and I guess you really never have to hear about them either since Microsoft has decided to cancel this product in the end of June next year. Instead Microsoft will start offering a free product called Morro and will be protection [...] Continue Reading
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RSA has been tracking a trojan called Sinowal Trojan since early 2006 (almost three years) and they've estimated that this evil piece of software have stolen over 300,000 logins to online banks ! Since this number is just an estimate the actual number may be even larger. The trojan has also been used to steal [...] Continue Reading
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On the first of August the Xavier Media blog mention a hack of a Swedish online bookstore that caused the web site to distribute malware. Since most of us are extremly dependent on our web sites it's important to check out your own web site to make sure it's not scarying your visitors away. This [...] Continue Reading
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