After writing this article ( http://techblog.avira.com/2010/01/04/firefox-extension-updates/en/ ) and after Dirk’s info , it finally happened to Firefox: They published malicious plugins It was just a matter of time 😉 Short link
http://it-republik.de/php/news/Security-Hinweise-zu-Facebook-Anwendungen-und-mehr-053600.html Sorin Mustaca von Avira berichtet, dass Googles Chrome in Version 4 durch ‘Extensions’ erweitert werden kann, die von Google in der ‘Extension Gallery’ gesammelt und bereit gestellt werden – ohne ihre Funktionsfähigkeit oder Verhalten zu prüfen, so dass bösartigen Extensions Tür und Tor offen stehen. and the original article: http://techblog.avira.com/2010/01/27/google-chrome-4-now-with-extensions/en/
http://www.pcwelt.de/start/sicherheit/firewall/news/2107737/die-haeufigsten-phishing-zielscheiben/ Ursache sei vermutlich, so Sorin Mustaca von Avira im Unternehmens-Blog, das Weihnachtsgeschäft. Viele Internet-Nutzer tätigten ihre Einkäufe online und benutzten Paypal zum Bezahlen. So sei auch die Zahl der Phishing-Angriffe auf Paypal angestiegen. Die Chase Bank liegt auf Platz 2, gefolgt von der Paypal-Mutter eBay. Erst mit deutlichem Abstand zum Spitzentrio folgen American Express […]
I read this article from Heise ( http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Internet-Service-Providers-have-a-pessimistic-view-of-the-future-917562.html) and I couldn’t stop asking myself : WHY ?! I mean where is the problem in building a better protection from inside ? Why Inside ? Because most of the attacks come from inside their network or from the networks from their own partners. So, guys, sit […]
In Visual Studio 2010, the command line tool vcbuild.exe will be replaced by msbuild.exe. The executable change does mean switches will change, too.
Project Honeypot published this nice article which contains all kind of data and graphics here: 1 Billion Spammers Served All nice and shiny, but I have a problem with this graphic: Notice that PayPal is about 1% … Our data, gathered by the URLCheck service, gives us completely different numbers: So, don’t believe everything what […]
I have to confess, I never ever read anything on www.shadowserver.org and everything I write here is taken from this page from McAfee Avert Labs Blog Shadowserver names 183 country codes and 5994 autonomous systems with Conficker IP in their network space: * 1086 for the Russian Federation (RU) * 597 for the United States […]
Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 : http://usa.kaspersky.com/shakeitup/ IObit Security : http://db.iobit.com/license-free/win7-special-offer.php Panda Security : http://us.pandasecurity.com/windows7party/index.html are offering free one year subscriptions to everyone… http://windows7news.com/2009/10/22/free-anti-virus-1-year-subscriptions-to-celebrate-windows-7-launch/ Avira is also offering Free-Av to absolutely everyone, all the time, since 10 years. And this no matter which Windows you run. 😉 Bastards … 🙂
Got the invitation for Google Wave (http://ping.fm/gxgq6). Still trying how to use it. My Google user name is sorin.mustaca. Everything still looks pretty simple developed out there.
A brief look at some Twitter Spam
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