Last month Adrian Lamo, a man once hunted by the FBI, did something
contrary to his nature. He picked up a payphone outside a Northern
California supermarket and called the cops. Read the full article. [Wired]
Shifty sorts have created a new worm which spread rapidly on Facebook. The malware, for now at least, does nothing more malicious than
posting a message on an infected user’s Facebook wall that point to a
site called fbhole.com. Nonetheless, the speed of its spread on the
social networking site has net security experts worried. Read the full article. [The Register]
Two developers have refined techniques for rummaging through browser
histories to the extent that web sites can now find out what articles a
user has recently read on news sites, their exact postcode and which
search terms that have entered into search engines. Read the full article. [The H Security]
Beta customers named in two click fraud lawsuits Microsoft filed this week maintain their innocence, and both say they assisted
the software company in investigating the source of the problem. Read the full article. [IDG News Service]
An e-mail with the subject “See Office 2010 Beta in action” uses an
alleged Office 2010 Beta version used as bait. Read the full article. [Help Net Security]
A trio of researchers who
discovered vulnerabilities in Cisco firewalls and in Cisco and McAfee
security management software will demonstrate proof-of-concept attacks
against these products at the upcoming Black Hat USA conference. Read the full article. [Dark Reading]
A federal judge has permanently pulled the plug on a California web
hosting provider accused of harboring a “witches’ brew” of pernicious
content on behalf of child pornographers, spammers, and malware
purveyors. Read the full article. [The Register]
Carders.cc, a German online forum dedicated to helping
criminals trade and sell financial data stolen through hacking, has
itself been hacked. Read the full article. [KrebsonSecurity]
Federal prosecutors have accused a man of carrying out a series of
botnet offenses including attacks that brought down the websites of
conservative talking heads Bill O’Reilly, Ann Coulter and Rudolph
Giuliani. Read the full article. [The Register]
The true extent of the malvertizing scourge became much clearer this week with the release of new research by Dasient which shows that about 1.3 million malicious ads are being viewed online everyday, most pushing drive-by downloads and fake security software.
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