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[Technology - Latest News] Les Proctor Direct launches Malware Cleanup Service: Recently Wordpress websites and blogs have been targeted by hackers, who inject the websites with transient feeds, and other hidden links that download malicious scripts. The transient feeds are often designed to boost another webite's search engine rankings, and the malicious scripts are designed to cause websites to cease functioning, or cause innocent users to unwittingly download malicious scripts to their computer.

[security_watchdog] Japanese hacker arrested for fishy malware - security_watchdog: A Japanese hacker has been arrested on suspicion of creating malware which deletes a user's computer files and replaces them with manga-style images of octopuses and squid. High-tech crime officers said Nakatsuji is suspected of writing the Ikatako (squid-octopus) virus, which was distributed on the Winny file-sharing site in May, disguised as a file for anime songs, according to the report.

[Computerworld Philippines] Computerworld Philippines :: Today's News :: Fighting today's malware: Many of the kits are directed toward bypassing particular types of authentication and focus on particular financial institutions. The better bot kits include a sophisticated administrative back end so that the hackers can read statistics on total infections, OS versions exploited, and tricks used.

[Technology News NOW!] Mobile Malware: You Will Be Billed $90000 For This Call ...: Some people change applications faster than their underwear, some of these applications act as the execution of a Trojan horse malware. While some experts expect an intelligent security software to be an attractive target for hackers, F-Secure reported that there were more than 500 mobile viruses to date.

[TECH HELP & PERFORMANCE TOOLS, TRICKS, SCANS, VIDEOS by All Tech] Computer Security – 10 Tips to Protect Your PC From Malware ...: Computer users have to deal with all sorts of security threats each day, computer viruses, computer worms, hackers, phishing, spyware. These malicious attacks may damage your boot sector, system BIOS, software and data files, cause disruption of internet traffic, create back door to allow unauthorized access to your computer, and steal confidential information from you.

[IT Insight for Hong Kong's Technology Professionals | Computer World Hong Kong] Malware inexpensive and customizable in China, researchers say ...: Many offer exploit generators that allow more sophisticated hackers to carefully customize malware for specific needs by using graphical user interfaces, Lai said. The GUIs let wannabe hackers specify what they want the program to do, for instance, whether they want it to steal data, capture screens, log keystrokes, remotely control a system or undertake any other task.

[NationMultimedia.com - Technology] Kaspersky Lab patents advanced technology for combating malware ...: Detecting malware on every computer that is infected during an epidemic has little or no effect. What is needed is a reliable method for estimating the potential scale and direction of an epidemic, an early warning system, and that is exactly what the new technology developed by Kaspersky Lab's Yury Mashevsky, Yury Namestnikov, Nikolay Denishchenko and Pavel Zelensky, is capable of doing.

[FinanceTechNews.com] Smartphone malware can auto-dial expensive calls | FinanceTechNews ...: To keep your company’s mobile devices secure, make sure they’re locked down so no unneeded apps are installed. Hyponnen also recommends educating users about the dangers of installing unknown applications and investing in mobile security software as threats for these devices increase.

[TechKive] TechKive » Blog Archive » iPhone, iPad and iPod vulnerable to ...: Until Apple releases a new patch all users of iPhones, iPads or iPods are at risk of drive-by exploits used by Jailbreakme with nothing to prevent a malicious hacker using vulnerabilities in the devices to automatically install malware onto the device.

[Technology, gadgets and software news blog] Unlock of iPhone 4 is successful - Hackers crack the SIM protection: Similarly, other publishers such as F-Secure have recently shown that the jailbreak can be done by sending an e-mail or a text message, as attachments, PDF version syphilitic. The latter would even be ”

[Software and PC Security Blog] PC Security - Why Should You Care? - Software, PC Security and ...: In order to fight them and ensure that your PC remains safe & your important data is not compromised, you must equip yourself with all the necessary information to safeguard against inte rnet threats. That's why it is very important to .

[Clark's Tech Blog] Android Malware « Clark's Tech Blog: They can simply warn of known malware that attempts to install or is already installed on the software. (This is what Apple’s done with OSX) I suspect that’ll actually fend off a lot of the malware.

[TechHail : Technology Blog] Black Hat and Defcon Security Events 2010 - The Highlights | TechHail: Black Hat and Defcon Highlights - Spoofing Mobile Base Stations, Google Malware Risks, Android OS In-securities, Hacking ATM and more. Also, wiki leaks video exposed the vulnerability of secret military reports and files.

[Talk Tech To Me - GFI Blog] Google Advisory: Facebook and Twitter regularly victims of malware ...: Even worse, Twitter.com was also victim to malware including 4724 scripting exploits, 3727 trojans and 216 exploits in July 2010. Clearly, social networking sites are unsafe and organizations need to find an immediate solution to this problem.

[Bill Mullins' Weblog - Tech Thoughts] If You Get A Malware Infection Who's Fault Is It Really? « Bill ...: _qoptions={qacct:'p-18-mFEk4J448M',labels:'language.en,posttag.free,posttag.bill-mullins,posttag.security,posttag.download,posttag.secure,posttag.utilities,posttag.software,posttag.application,posttag.system,posttag.monitor,posttag.update,posttag.updates,posttag.insecure,posttag.installations,posttag.missing,posttag.patch,posttag.check,posttag.old'};

[Site Home] The Stuxnet Sting - Microsoft Malware Protection Center - Site ...: These drivers are signed with a digital certificate belonging to a well-known hardware manufacturer called Realtek Semiconductor Corp., which is unusual because it would imply that the malware authors somehow had access to Realtek’s private key. Microsoft MMPC has been working with Verisign to revoke this certificate, and did so at 08:05:42 PM UTC with the agreement and support of Realtek.

[TechNewsWorld] iPhone Hackers Set Up One-Stop Jailbreak Shop: "For those who absolutely, positively feel like they must jailbreak their iPhones, they should make good friends with some of the third parties who produce software for, and repair, iPhones," the Yankee Group's Howe said. "After all, should you have a future problem with your phone, you'll need to take it somewhere other than the Apple Store."

[BHBodeezy] Cripples Malware Gives Attackers Headaches | BHBodeezy: To learn more about this features and get windows 7 support, you can talk to the tech experts .Microsoft has worked on its security features and has offered an upgraded security in Windows 7.

[TechJaws.com] Chelsea Clinton Searches Serving Up Rogue Software | TechJaws.com: Malware spreaders and Hackers have always been know to exploit the ‘topic of the day’. Y2K,Diana’s Death,,Celebrity scandals etc etc are always good ways to ensure ur ‘app’

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