Appletell – For the first time in Apple’s history, an Apple program is the target of a Phishing scam. Recently, thousands of iTunes users have received fraudulent emails, asking them for personal information including credit card numbers, Social Security numbers, mother’s maiden name, and more. [...] read more
SecurityAnton Chuvakin on Security – Maybe I should call it on stupidity and add it to my Nobody Is That Dumb… Oh Wait series? Really, when Ive heard about it first, I was like ah, come on, I am sure the journalists are just mis-reporting it nobody is that dumb in their approach to system security. Well, they really were that dumb. Honestly, [...] read more
Pulse 2 – Free blogging website and Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) subsidiary, Blogger is one of the biggest targets for spammers. The free blog hosting company hosts roughly 2% of malware on the web. The statistic was provided by Sophos, an anti-virus company.
“Blogger accounts for around 2% of malware,” stated Sophos senior technology consultant, Graham Cluley. “It’s head [...] read more
IT Blogwatch – The sky is falling on IT Blogwatch: in which the theoretical DNS vulnerability of two weeks ago is now not-so-theoretical any more. Not to mention the pipetting system boyband (huh?)...
Robert McMillan realizes our worst fears: Hackers have released software that exploits a recently disclosed flaw in the Domain Name System (DNS) ... Internet security experts warn that this code may give criminals a way to launch virtually undetectable phishing attacks against Internet users whose service providers have not installed the latest DNS server patches [...] read more
