Death of Type O Negative frontman used for Fake AV distribution

Death of Type O Negative frontman used for Fake AV distribution


Death of Type O Negative frontman used for Fake AV distribution

Posted: 15 Apr 2010 01:10 PM PDT

The rumor of the death of Peter Steele, Type O Negative frontman, has spread like wildfire through the Net yesterday. Confirmed by a number of sources, the unfortunate event became, in the meantim...

New Zbot malicious campaign

Posted: 15 Apr 2010 07:22 AM PDT

A spam email purporting to come from UK's Royal Mail service has been making the rounds of inboxes: Attached to the message is a .pdf file by the name Royal_Mail_Delivery_Notice.pdf, and the user...

Google on Fake AV

Posted: 15 Apr 2010 06:38 AM PDT

"For years, we have detected malicious content on the web and helped protect users from it," says Niels Provos, an engineer from the company's Security Team, in a blog post. They have witnessed the...

Facebook builds up its defenses

Posted: 15 Apr 2010 06:29 AM PDT

The redesign of its Safety Center is just one of the steps Facebook is lately taking to tackle the security issues that have been steadily rising along with the number of users. As Max Kelly, Face...

Nessus 4.2.2 released

Posted: 15 Apr 2010 05:31 AM PDT

The Nessus vulnerability scanner is the world-leader in active scanners, featuring high-speed discovery, configuration auditing, asset profiling, sensitive data discovery and vulnerability analysis of...

Little-known Java feature exploited in-the-wild

Posted: 15 Apr 2010 03:13 AM PDT

A recently unearthed feature that has been built into Java since Java 6 Update 10 allows developers to easily distribute their applications to end users. Unfortunately - as Brian Krebs reports - it...

5 ways to protect against cloud security threats

Posted: 15 Apr 2010 01:09 AM PDT

Stonesoft has identified five ways that organizations can improve cloud computing security. This announcement comes on the heels of recent research from Gartner citing that 60 percent of virtualized s...

Fireshark: Linking the malicious web

Posted: 14 Apr 2010 10:31 PM PDT

Fireshark is a tool, made up of a Firefox plugin and a set of postprocessing scripts that allows you to capture web traffic from the core of your web browser, enabling you to log events and download c...

Spammers use the familiar to inspire action

Posted: 14 Apr 2010 10:22 PM PDT

Spammers have become adept at using the most familiar Internet names to give deceptive legitimacy to the billions of emails that they send. For example, between five to ten percent of all spam appears...

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