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Thursday, February 26, 2009
Latest News & Info From Forums - Feb 26
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- Spammers using Yahoo to bait phishing hooks
- Money Tight- Watch out for Coupon Offers from CyberCriminals
- Just Say "No" To Gmail "ViddyHo" Chats
- Adobe Flash vulnerable to remote-execution exploit
- Google's DoubleClick spreads malicious ads (again)
- Malware Scum Capitalize On News w-Poisoned Searches
- Waledac: Couponizer Theme
- Conficker Gets Evil Twin
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Thursday, February 19, 2009
ThisWweeks Latest News Feb 19
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- New Sality With a Twist
- LinkedIn Targeted By Pharma Spammers
- Srizbi Spam/Hosting Services
- Innovative Marketing FTC Developments
- Bad Actors-Starline Web Services
- AOL Users Exploited By Phishers
- Search giants join to tidy up Web addresses
- Windows 7 RC This Month
- Net traffic report: P2P, porn down; games and Flash up
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- Fake FTC Spam
- Most Spam Tied To 10 Registrars
- China Taking Lead In Spam Origins
- Portfolio Of Rogues Pt 14
- Templattizing Malware Sites
- Olympic Media Still Pushing Rogue Ads
- How Do They Make All That Malware?
- Patchou: Interview w\Adware Purveyor
- UkrTeleGroup Ltd. Taken Down
- Yes, You CAN Upgrade From XP To 7
- XP Still Powering 71% OF Businesses
- WinPatrol v16 l Beta 2 Released
Friday, January 30, 2009
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Latest News & Info From Forums - Jan 29
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- BitDefender E-Threat Report
- Security Networks Send Spammers Underground
- Poisoned Google Vid Searches
- Spam Volume To Near Pre-McColo Takedown
- IE8 'Suggested Sites' Privacy Concern?
- Study: People Care About Privacy, Don't Manage It
- IE 8 RC 1 Released Today
- War Against CAPTCHA Needs New Approaches
- mlb.com Pushing Malware
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- Playing Tetris Is Good For You
- Windows Live Hotmail To Get POP Access?
- MS To Offer Free Windows 7 Upgrades?
Tuesday, January 06, 2009
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Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Latest News & Info From Forums Dec 31
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- Friendster Phish Making Rounds
- AVG Anti-Spyware Discontinued
- Google Calendar Phish Scam
- Web Browser Flaw Exposes Secure Sites
- Fake X-Mas eCards.....Again
- MS Cleans Rogues Off 400K PCs
- Innovative Marketing Found In Contempt
- 1 Million Ways To Infect Your PC
- US Still Leader Of Malware Sources
- Bug Found In Online Scanner
- Net Takes Over Newspaper As Source
- Castle Cops Shuts Down
Monday, December 22, 2008
TeMerc Joins Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Team!!!
Read all about my exciting new position with one of the premier anti-malware tools available today.
TeMerc Now Employed By MalwarebytesWednesday, December 17, 2008
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Vista Install Update
Ok, so far so good. Vista is running fine and I'm working on personalizations and tweaks.
If there's one thing that bugs me is that I cannot seem to figure out how to keep the cool Vista start button\black menu and change the Windows color. The oh-so-pretty blue just don't cut it. If you know where I can either find that tweak or download some freebie, drop me a comment or reply in the forums.
My news reader, Great News works great from the XP partition.
I've gotten my MailWasherPro all set up but I still need to work out what I'm doing wrong with Outlook. Steven provided me some steps to open it from the Vista drive but I can't seem to get it just right yet.
I also need to see if that can be done with Expression Blend.
I've installed Online Armour Firewall, so we'll see how that works. For av I'll likely go with one of the freebies, not sure which one yet tho.
So today will be spent working out those things and other settings. Thanksfully Jr has a playdate with a pal after school, so I'll have a good amount of time to do all this.Monday, December 15, 2008
Reinstalling Vista Ultimate Today
Well, after a year and a half, I've decided to re-install Visat Ultimate, this time w\SP1 and begin using it more. I've been shying away from for it for too long. And now it seems pretty much everyone has a Vista capable version of thier software.
So I'll keep everyone abreast of how things go.Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Tuesday, December 09, 2008
Time To Exclude The Bad ISPs
In recent months, three questionable Internet service providers — EstDomains, Atrivo, and McColo — were effectively taken offline resulting in noticeable drops of malware and spam.
It is hard to argue that such takedowns, which took the command-and-control servers for several major botnets offline, would not benefit everyone who uses the Internet. Estimates of the decrease in spam from the McColo takedown ran from 40 to 80 percent, even if it lasted only for a short time. More importantly, as bulletproof hosting providers drop bad actors from their client list, the cost of hosting the command-and-control servers go up. Increasing the transaction costs to commit cybercrime is one of the best strategies to reduce it.
Time to Exclude Bad ISPsMonday, December 08, 2008
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Tuesday, November 25, 2008
New Blogspot Trickery?
This last weekend I was perusing the Blogspot domain for fake\rogue pages which re-direct users to fake scans to get malware installed. Or to try and goad users into purchasing fake security software, which in and of itself is also malware.
As I was tracking the sites, which btw is easy as pie if you know what to look for, I noticed a new trick they use. Instead of either having a pop up box which just slides down the page as you scroll or have you click a link to generate a pop up, they have the page load and if you click anywhere on the page, a new instance of IE starts up, at a fake scan page. No matter where on the page you place your mouse, if you click, that's what happens.
I'm having a look at how this is done and will provide more on that as I get the info.
I'm not coder by any strecth, so I need to talkk to someone who is.Monday, November 24, 2008
New Template= Zero Hits...WTF??
Ever since I changed the temlate on this blog, as of Oct 21, give or take, this blogs hits have tanked literally to zero, according to Google Analytics.
Yet, my referrer logs indicate blogspot domain links as the most linked from by far, which it has always been. How is this possible?
Maybe something I need to change in settings for analytics? Somethings out of friggin wahack here for sure.Friday, November 21, 2008
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Latest News & Info From The Forums-Nov 20
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- New Vulnerability Found In Vista
- Rogue Banner Ads On hotmail & SkyDrive
- Fake Activation\Unsubscribe Sites
- New Web Exploitation Kit
- Slingshot Phish & Worm Laden PayPal Email
- Teen Hacker Admits 3 Year Spree
- Teens Learn Technical, Social Skillz Online
- IE 8 Update Plans
- PC Magazine Going All Digital
- Get Ready For Black Friday
- Poll: You Spend 14 Hours Online Weekly
- Cyber Scumbags DDoS Anti-Fraud Site
- Spam Drop Could Boost Trojan Installs
- Cybercrime May Spike Cyber Monday
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Saturday, November 15, 2008
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Thursday, October 30, 2008
Latest News & Info From The Forums-Oct 31
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- World Bank Woes Spur Spam
- Update Opera Browser-NOW
- Email Marketing Tools Empower Spammers
- 'Scareware' Just Another Intruder
- Estdomains Termination Process Stayed
- How To Combat A Botnet Army
- Completetala Infections
- Famous Hacker Indicted
- Ed Bott: Windows & Answers
- 24: Season 7 Trailer Online
- Top 15 Bond Gadgets
- CRITICAL Patch Requires Immediate Update
- Compromised Legit Domains For Sale
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Latest News & Info From The Forums-Oct 22
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- Better Business Bureau Spam
- Portfolio Of Rogues-Pt 10
- Botnet Experts Meet To Access Threats
- Flash Updating Won't Fix Clickjacking
- Keylogging Hardwired Keyboards w\Antennae
- F-Secure: Call For 'Internetpol'
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- temerc.com Makes Malware Authors List!
- Telemarketers & Caller ID Spoofing Gone Wrong
- Big Net Changes Ahead
- MS Gets Patent On Real Time F-Bomb Bleeping
Friday, October 17, 2008
Latest News & Info From The Forums-Oct 17
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- Internet-Scale Man-In-The-Middle Attack
- Atrivo Shutdown Hastened Storm Demise
- Blogspot Malware Sites Closed
- BitDefender Top 10-Sept
- Directi: Still Harboring Malware Sites
- 3Xs Rogue Banner Ads
- Security Update: Flash Player
- Warezov Botnet Back In Action
- Guilty Plea In FTC Shuttered Spam Case
- Cyber Threats Grow In Complexity
- More Blogspot Malware
- VirusList: Sept Malware
- Malware Authors Develop VPN Network
- FTC Shuts Massive Spam Ring
- MSN Messenger Spam Run
- Tools Of Malware Trade: Quality Assurance
- New Laws To Track Predators Online
- ZoneAlarm\Windows Update Problems, Again
- MSN Ditching MSN Groups?
- Windows 7 Name Piques Interest On 'Why'?
- Vista SP 2 Coming Before Windows 7
- Internet Use 'Good For The Brain
- It's Official: Next Windows OS-Windows 7
- Use GMail To Fight Spam
- Directi Phish Site Up
- Notorious Crime forum Shuts Down
- Malware Researchers Against Authors
- Airline Scam Emails
- Storm Worm: Mobile Game?
- Top Celebs Used In Malware
- Estdomain Phish Attacks Coming?
- 'Clickjacking' Threat Disclosure Deferred
- Viruslist Malware Miscellany-Aug
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- Info: Windows 7 Paint & Word Pad
- Windows 7 Coming Sooner Than Expected?
- Pr0n Second To Social Networking In Surfing
Monday, September 15, 2008
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Busy Rogue Week
This last week has been one of the busiest for new rogues and new variants of existing rogues.
The IEDefender, Files Secure, Malware Bell, IE Antivirus, Total Secure 2000 family has been updated 5 times!
New rogues or just clones of another:- XP Protector 2009-Antivirus XP 2008 clone
- Antispyware PRO XP
- MS Antivirus-new variant
- XP Antivirus transofrms to MS Antivirus then to Micro Antivirus
- Advanced Antivirus-related to Vista Antivirus 2008, Antispyware 2008 XP, System Antivirus 2008, Internet Antivirus, Smart Antivirus 2009
- Power Antivirus-family from Vista Antivirus 2008, Antispyware 2008 XP, System Antivirus 2008, Internet Antivirus, Smart Antivirus 2009, MS Antivirus, Advanced Antivirus
It's good to see the bad guys are quickly making new variants as this indicates that the good guys are tracking them just as quickly. Bit of cat and mouse I suppose but with the recent fall out from the Brian Krebs Security Fix write ups, the cat seems to have sharpened it's claws a bit.
Zlob\Rogues [IEDefender-File Secure-Total Secure 09\Sept 13]Thursday, September 11, 2008
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Directi & HostFresh: Continued Cyber Crime Activity
Well it seems that Directi wasn't as sincere as they first indicated to rid themselves of association with cyber criminal activity.
Security researcher, developer and hpHosts owner Steven Burn has found a gang of scum as one of their customers.
As usual, he's gotten quite a bit of detail to support his findings.
Read all about it here.Thursday, October 02, 2008
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Tuesday, September 23, 2008
ISP Upgrades For Me....
Seems my ISP has decided to perform some sort of upgrade in my area so my access is liited until 5PM MST, or so they say. Thus, not much fresh news will get posted until later in the day.
Same goes with forum access as well. I'm at mom n dads now but will need to go run some errands and get Jr at school. If, after that, I still don't have access at home I'll come back here to mom n dads.
Sorry if you're not getting your news fixes today. I'll get thiings updated ASAP once I'm home and on my machine.Monday, September 22, 2008
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Wednesday, September 17, 2008
WinPatrol New Version Release-v15.9.2008
BillP has released the latest version of trustful WinPatrol, a must have on any system and something I've recommended for years. Everyone needs to have Scotty asking for approval and to contrl, things that start up with Windows.
Details in the forum link below
New Version Release: WinPatrol 15.9.2008Tuesday, September 16, 2008
'ClickJacking', Malware Miscellany, Windows 7 News & Porn Second To Social Networking?
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Monday, October 27, 2008
Some Minor Additions To Malware Advisor
Hi folks, today I've added some things to my blog which were options of Blogger.
You can now see all my labels or tags as listed below in order of total posts per that particular label\tag.
I also now display people who are following me. Over at Feedburner this number was supposedly 51. Not sure how the Blogspot one will work and if it will get to that number.
I've also enabled the gadget so you can see some of the blogs I'm currently following. Mind you there are only a small amount there as I'm currently following close to 150 in my reader, but I don't want to add all those here.
Hope these lil additions will make following me easier or just improve the over all ease of use of the blog and perhaps searching.Friday, October 24, 2008
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Forums Down-Unknown Reason
Not sure what I did, but something has taken the forum offline.
Awaiting support, hope to be up soon.Tuesday, November 18, 2008
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