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The wrong way of being in the news

“70 Romanian Phishers & Fraudsters Arrested On March 4th, FBI Director Robert Mueller was given a speech on Cybercrime to the RSA conference where he mentioned that: And we have worked with the Romanian National Police to arrest more than 100 Romanian nationals in the past 18 months. Four years ago, several American companies threatened […]

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Viruses and Digital Signatures

Very interesting stuff: http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/viruses-and-digital-signatures Although the files are signed, they are signed using an unauthenticated CA (Certificate Authority) which is masquerading as Verisign. A CA is a trusted third party that issues and signs the certificate and vouches for the authenticity of the file. Each CA should be registered and therefore recognized globally as a […]

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The Firefox Plugins – reloaded

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

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Quoted by it-republik.de

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/