Gumblar Rumblings Targeting Wrong People
An old friend has been back in the headlines this week - Gumblar aka Troj/JSRedir-R. Can't see why that name didn't catch on... Anyway, it's back, and it's getting smarter.
Security Risks on Your Macintosh
Let's skip the jokes and snide comments about Mac users and the jokes and snide comments they make about Windows machines and security problems. Yes, Windows machines face the vast majority of security issues. However, Mac users should start feeling kinship, not contempt, for security plagued Windows users. And the first step for Mac users is to admit that their Mac has become a hacker target, and hackable as well. Not fun, but there it is.
EBay auction tool Web site infected with malware
A Trojan horse lurking on servers belonging to Auctiva, a Web site offering eBay auction tools, infected people's PCs last week.
A New Internet Attack: Parking Tickets
Trojan-pushing parking tickets? Yes, really. The Internet Storm Center, which tracks Internet attacks and threats, documented a case in Grand Forks, North Dakota where someone put yellow fliers on cars that claimed to ticket a parking violation. The fliers named a Web site that purportedly had pictures of your supposed violation.
New botnet resurrects Storm's Valentine's Day ruse
Multiple security vendors, including MX Logic Inc. , Trend Micro Inc. and Panda Security, have issued alerts about new Valentine's Day-themed spam campaigns that try to dupe users into installing the Waledec bot.
Security Risks on Your Macintosh
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Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
- mburton325
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