Yeah, I know… the sender of the invites to this “event” swears up-n-down that they didn’t like the page, or send me or others an invite, and he can’t find anything in his apps that looks suspicious Here’s the “event”. Within hours the invite count had reached 784,432. If you’re silly enough to go to […]
This is very useful information:http://sbs.seandaniel.com/2014/01/checking-your-sign-in-history-in.html
Well, I suppose we knew it had to happen sooner or later… “A fridge has been discovered sending out spam after a web attack managed to compromise smart gadgets. The fridge was one of more than 100,000 devices used to take part in the spam campaign. Uncovered by security firm Proofpoint the attack compromised computers, […]
The top two – open source Apache and Nginx:http://blogs.technet.com/b/security/archive/2014/01/08/drive-by-download-attacks-examining-the-web-server-platforms-attackers-use-most-often.aspx
It’s an excellent write-up, and worth a read: http://hitmanpro.wordpress.com/2014/01/05/malware-served-via-yahoo-affected-millions/ Lessons for the layman: keep all software on your computer up to date and get rid of Java (you know, the stuff that runs java applets). Run antivirus and keep it up to date (but remember, antivirus is more reactive than proactive and may not catch […]
Cite: http://blog.chromium.org/2013/09/saying-goodbye-to-our-old-friend-npapi.html “Starting in January 2014, Chrome will block webpage-instantiated NPAPI plug-ins by default on the Stable channel. To avoid disruption to users, we will temporarily whitelist the most popular NPAPI plug-ins that are not already blocked for security reasons. These are: Silverlight (launched by 15% of Chrome users last month) Unity (9.1%) Google Earth (9.1%) Java (8.9%) […]
A fascinating read:http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2014/01/03/reading-this-may-harm-your-computer/ Direct link to report:http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2374379
Excellent writeup here: http://blog.malwarebytes.org/exploits-2/2014/01/hard-times-on-the-moscow-times/
Just wow: http://www.itnews.com.au/News/368869,wa-official-faces-prosecution-over-software-favours.aspx More than $1 million in CA products purchased 🙁