DE.MSN.COM wrote about the German Phishing and Malware statistics
I decided to write this as a separate post because I find it really nice: Tech.DE.MSN.COM wrote: http://tech.de.msn.com/sicherheit/news_artikel.aspx?cp-documentID=147625442
First time in a German news
After writing the article in the Avira Techblog, Dirk Knopp, Avira’s Technical Editor, showed me the link below: http://www.channelpartner.de/knowledgecenter/security/277691/index.html There is an omission, I hope not intentional: I wrote in the blog: Our statistics show that 14.43% from the Phishing and 15.04% from the Malware URLs (for which we have geo IP information) The article […]
Softpedia quoted me again
The original article on Avira’s Techblog: http://techblog.avira.com/2009/05/25/malware-and-phishing-statistics-for-germany/en/ And the article on Softpedia: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Germany-Is-A-Significant-Source-of-Malicious-URLs-112566.shtml I am starting to like this 🙂
Confiker gots itself a page
Everybody is trying to find a way to get rid of it. And it works. Here is a page with a bunch of tools and HowTOs which remove Conficker. http://www.h-online.com/security/The-H-Security-Conficker-information-site–/features/113002
Softpedia quoted my post in the Avira Techblog
Here is the original post: http://msorin.wordpress.com/2009/03/25/colorful-spam-twist-for-bypassing-spamfilters Here is the Softpedia article: http://news.softpedia.com/news/HTML-Design-Tricks-Used-to-Hide-Spam-107861.shtml
How Spaces.Live.com encourages spamming
We analyzed the spam presented in the post called Colorful Spam twist for bypassing Spamfilters and ended the post with the information that the target page is hosted on the spaces.live.com. Of course, as we always do in such cases, we wanted to report several URLs to the Abuse team at live.com. We searched on […]
Bug or feature: Mime Type Detection
Also known as MIME Sniffing, this is a feature or bug in IE which is the only browser able to dynamically determine the content type of the document it loads. So, in this case, it detects a plain text document with HTML content instead of a an JPG header. And the content of the “JPG” […]
Avira sets up first Asian unit in Malaysia
Avira sets up first Asian unit in Malaysia: More infos here: http://www.btimes.com.my/Current_News/BTIMES/articles/20090325000558/Article
Colorful Spam twist for bypassing Spamfilters
A new technique to avoid spam filters: http://techblog.avira.com/2009/03/25/colorful-spam-twist-for-bypassing-spamfilters/en/ The technique will be added here as well: http://www.virusbtn.com/resources/spammerscompendium/colormatrix.xml
A Field Guide to Genetic Programming
From : http://www.lulu.com/content/2167025 Description: Genetic programming (GP) is a systematic, domain-independent method for getting computers to solve problems automatically starting from a high-level statement of what needs to be done. Using ideas from natural evolution, GP starts from an ooze of random computer programs, and progressively refines them through processes of mutation and sexual recombination, […]
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