Archive for June, 2007

You’ve Got Postcard Malware

June 29, 2007 by Jose Nazario

If you don’t have an email address, or if you have a great spam filtering engine, you may not be among us throngs who have been flooded with spam linking to a “postcard from a family member”. The spams have a link in them and you’re encouraged to click: Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 13:25:01 [...]

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Peace Really Does Not Exist In The Information Age

June 26, 2007 by Danny McPherson

When I began a while back to generate a study of interesting cyber attacks to see if there were any common themes and to perhaps make some attempt at generating a chronology of such activity and it’s evolution, I ran across Minihan’s comment “Peace really does not exist in the Information Age“. That pretty much [...]

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“Baiting” Web Surfers

June 19, 2007 by Sunil James

In case you haven’t already heard, a variety of websites, including those with content about “fish and tackle,” have been identified as having been compromised so that when people browser to the site, they’re then re-directed to an alternate location, where the host is then compromised so that attackers could then steal potentially sensitive data, [...]

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