by Alex Eckelberry | Aug 13, 2010 | Uncategorized
Month-old W32.Ackantta.F@mm still circulating as email attachment“What are you doing?“To join or to see who invited you, check the attachment.”Hmmm. That looked interesting. After I clicked on it (in virtual environment), Yahoo renamed the...
by Alex Eckelberry | Aug 12, 2010 | Uncategorized
Apple has updated the iOS on iPhones and iPods through its iTunes service to fix two vulnerabilities, including the widely discussed .pdf security problem that made headlines earlier this month.That hole (CVE-2010-1797) made it possible for a malicious PDF document...
by Alex Eckelberry | Aug 12, 2010 | Uncategorized
Rogue deception techniques continue to evolveThe unpleasant folks who make their living selling useless rogue security products continue to refine their techniques for deception. The latest imitator is a new variant of the Fake Microsoft Software Removal Tool rogue...
by Alex Eckelberry | Aug 11, 2010 | Uncategorized
Scammers who don’t appear to be native speakers of English, are trolling for Battle.net passwords with a spam campaign. The spam emails contain messages that appear to be invitations to an “event.”Battle.net is Blizzard Entertainment’s online service on which vast...
by Alex Eckelberry | Aug 11, 2010 | Uncategorized
Scammers who don’t appear to be native speakers of English, are trolling for Battle.net passwords with a spam campaign. The spam emails contain messages that appear to be invitations to an “event.”Battle.net is Blizzard Entertainment’s online service on which vast...