Wave of recent bank-card skimming incidents demonstrate how sophisticated the scam has become Feb 22, 2010 | 05:20 PM By Kelly Jackson Higgins DarkReading Criminals hid bank card-skimming devices inside gas pumps — in at least one case, even completely replacing the front panel of a pump — in a recent wave of attacks that [...]
Attackers going after end users rather than servers
The Web traffic study also finds issues with botnets, corporate policies, and outdated browsers By Paul Krill, InfoWorld February 22, 2010 08:01 PM ET Rather than targeting Web and email servers, attackers these days are prone to going after enterprises from the inside out, compromising end user systems and then using them to access confidential [...]
Stopping Stealthy Downloads
An Article by Brian Krebs A new tool blocks files that try to install without alerting the user. By Brian Krebs Monday, February 22, 2010 Researchers at SRI International and Georgia Tech are preparing to release a free tool to stop “drive-by” downloads: Internet attacks in which the mere act of visiting a Web site [...]
Good Guys vs Bad Guys: Bad Guys raising the bar
Makes you want to install linux, yesterday. But, of course, that doesn’t really fix things since they’re IN THE COMPILERS NOW…. Sheesh. February 22, 2010 6:47 AM Perfect Hide Out Spot: Attackers Now Hijacking Compilers Malware authors and distributors have been perfecting methods to hide the nature of their work for over a decade now, [...]
A Restore Store Rant
I don’t “go off” too often, but I need to post this. Of the several computers I’ve fixed this week – so far I have, no joke, radically fixed no less than 3, and improved one more, by removing all Norton / Symantec products. On some I have had to run the “norton removal tool” [...]
