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 +0200
From: […]

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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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Security Bites Podcast: FBI cracks down on bot herders

June 15, 2007 by Andy Sicard

The FBI sent out a press release stating that 1 million homes may be infected with bots. Arbor Networks’ Chief Research Officer, Danny McPherson talks with CNET editor Robert Vamosi about “Operation Bot Roast.”

 
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Who Ya Gonna Call? **Updated**

June 14, 2007 by Danny McPherson

It seems the text cited below has been updated on the FBI’s release, with the “You should contact your Internet service provider” bit removed, and replaced with “Ways to Protect Your Computer“.
See, they indeed do listen! Now I have no complaints about Operation: Bot Roast — though that does remind me, it’s getting time […]

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