Conficker Worm Wriggles into Millions of Computers
Posted in Antivirus, Computer, Security, Software, Technology, Utilities on Jan 21st, 2009
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Following The Twitter Hack Trail To DigitalGangster
Posted in Computer, Security, Technology, Websites on Jan 6th, 2009
One thing that didn’t make a lot of sense about the 33 celebrity Twitter accounts hacked this morning - the messages left on the various accounts weren’t consistent and were clearly written by different people with different agendas.
Fox News got “Breaking: Bill O Riley is gay,” and Rick Sanchez from CNN got “I am high [...]
U.S. and European researchers have demonstrated that digital certificates using the MD5 algorithm can be faked. While some https sites are moving away from MD5, virtually all browsers still accept those “secure” certificates. The researchers used a cluster of Sony PlayStation 3s to create certificates in three days instead of an estimated 30 years.
The small [...]
Firefox Targeted By Malware
Posted in Antivirus, Computer, Internet, Security, Technology on Dec 8th, 2008
Researchers at BitDefender have discovered a new type of malicious software that collects passwords for banking sites but targets only Firefox users.
The malware, which BitDefender dubbed “Trojan.PWS.ChromeInject.A” sits in Firefox’s add-ons folder, said Viorel Canja, the head of BitDefender’s lab. The malware runs when Firefox is started.
The malware uses JavaScript to identify more than 100 [...]