Category Archives: Security News

Elgamal says that SSL is not to blame for security woes

Posted on May 5, 2009 by James

Source: Vivian Yeo (cnet) At the RSA Conference last month in San Francisco, Taher Elgamal was conferred the Lifetime Achievement Award–only the third recipient of the award since its inception in 2004. Taher Elgamals The chief security officer of Axway … Continue reading →

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Conficker virus starts to attack computers

Posted on April 27, 2009 by James

A malicious software program known as Conficker is slowly being activated, weeks after being dismissed as a false alarm, according to computer security experts. Source: Telegraph (UK) Conficker, also known as Downadup or Kido, was expected to wreak havoc on … Continue reading →

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Conficker’s $9.1 billion estimated economic cost

Posted on April 26, 2009 by James

Source: Dancho Danchev @ ZDNet In a recent blog post, the Cyber Secure Institute claims that based on their previous studies into the average cost of such malware attacks, the economic loss due to the Conficker worm could be as … Continue reading →

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Google updates Chrome due to issue in IE tab security

Posted on April 23, 2009 by James

Source: Sean Michael Kerner @ InternetNews Google today updated its stable version of the Chrome browser to version 1.0.154.58 to fix a serious security issue. The ‘funny’ thing is the issue is triggered by Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) browser. The … Continue reading →

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Google’s CAPTCHA experiment and the human factor

Posted on April 22, 2009 by James

Source: Dancho Danchev @ ZDNet Any research is prone to irrelevance if it starts with the wrong research questions, takes the wrong perspective, or in this case, attempts to fight the wrong enemy – automated bots attempting to recognize CAPTCHAs. … Continue reading →

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German researchers score Conficker detection breakthrough

Posted on April 22, 2009 by James

Source: Ryan Naraine @ ZDNet Conficker worm squirming through the Windows operating system, security researchers at the Honeynet Project have scored a major breakthrough, finding a way to fingerprint the malware on infected networks. Now, with the help of Dan … Continue reading →

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The Carbon Footprint of Spam

Posted on April 16, 2009 by James

Source: David Marcus @ McAfee Today McAfee has released The Carbon Footprint of Email Spam Report. The study looks at the global energy expended to create, store, view, and filter spam across 11 countries: Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, … Continue reading →

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Conficker worm hits University of Utah computers

Posted on April 13, 2009 by James

Source: The Associated Press – Salt Lake City University of Utah officials say a computer virus has infected more than 700 campus computers, including those at the school’s three hospitals. University health sciences spokesman Chris Nelson said the outbreak of … Continue reading →

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Conficker Removal – Disinfection Tool

Posted on April 10, 2009 by James

Source: ThreatPost/ZDNet How to fight network worm Conficker Symptoms of network infection. 1. Network traffic volume increases if there are infected PCs in the network, because network attack starts from these PCs. 2. Anti-Virus product with enabled Intrusion Detection System … Continue reading →

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Conficker botnet installs scareware on infected computers

Posted on April 10, 2009 by James

Source: Ryan Naraine @ ZDnet The Conficker botnet has stirred to life, using its peer-to-peer communication system to update itself and download scareware (fake anti-virus programs) to millions of infected Windows machines. The Conficker update comes a week after a … Continue reading →

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