A federal magistrate judge has recommended that Microsoft be given
ownership of 276 internet addresses used to control “Waledac,” a massive
botnet that the software company has been working to bring down. Read the full article. [The Register]
Microsoft is warning of a new type of scareware,
dubbed Rogue:MSIL/Zeven, which identifies a user’s browser–whether it’s
Google Chrome, Internet Explorer or Firefox–and serves up a nearly
perfect-looking version of the browser’s malware warning page. Read the full article. [Information Week]
TechCrunch Europe has cleaned up its website following the discovery of
malicious code that left visiting surfers exposed to infection by a
variant of the infamous Zeus banking Trojan. Read the full article. [The Register]
Every week, hackers are creating 57,000 new Web addresses which they
position and index on leading search engines in the hope that unwary
users will click them by mistake. Read the full article. [Help Net Security]
The countdown to the saturation of the IPv4
address supply is now down to a matter of months: and along with the
vast address space of the next-generation IPv6 architecture comes more
built-in network security as well as some new potential security
threats. Read the full article. [Dark Reading]
Spammers have been quick off the mark in exploiting Apple’s new iTunes social network to punt survey scams. Read the full article. [The Register]
Heartland Payment Systems has agreed to pay $5 million to Discover to
settle claims arising from the massive data breach disclosed by the
payment processor last year. Read the full article. [Computerworld]
A cybersecurity researcher has discovered an easy way for a hacker to
swipe copies of documents scanned by Hewlett-Packard all-in-one printers
widely used in workplace settings. Read the full article. [The Last Watchdog]
Scammers are offering prospective marks an application that supposedly shields them from exposure to survey scams. Naturally, you first have to fill in a survey to install the script,
which is punted through Userscripts(dot)org. Read the full article. [The Register]
Cyber crooks stole just shy of $1 million from a satellite campus of The University of Virginia last week. Read the full article. [KrebsonSecurity]
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