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Symantec Security Response Weblog: It’s Not a Wonderful Second Life

It’s Not a Wonderful Second Life It’s not very far into 2008 and sadly we are already seeing some of our predictions on the security trends of 2008 come true. I blogged earlier that our security analyses expected to see old style cybercrimes turn up in virtual worlds. While it’s not clear if any crime...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 01-28-2008
Filed under: In the News, Internet Hacks, Spam\Phishing, Security
Is it Domain Tasting or Domain Misusing? - McAfee Avert Labs Blog

Is it Domain Tasting or Domain Misusing? Thursday January 24, 2008 at 11:01 am CST Posted by Francois Paget Trackback When a registrar registers a domain name, there is a five-day Add Grace Period (AGP) where he may cancel his request and receive a full credit for the registration fee from the registry...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 01-24-2008
Filed under: Internet Hacks, Spam\Phishing, Security
Spammers “Feeling Lucky” With Anti-Typosquating Domains - McAfee Avert Labs Blog

Spammers “Feeling Lucky” With Anti-Typosquating Domains Tuesday January 15, 2008 at 2:04 pm CST Posted by Kevin McGhee Trackback The recent wave of Google “I’m Feeling Lucky” search-spam that Chris Barton blogged about a while ago has added a new flavor to the never ending recipe book of spam. Typosquatting...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 01-16-2008
Filed under: Internet Hacks, Spam\Phishing, Security
How to combat the Sans Top 10 Security Threats - ComputerWeekly.com

Security Alerts How to combat the Sans Institute's top 10 security threats Author: Timothy Mullen Posted: 08:21 14 Jan 2008 If one were to go back through the archives of the Sans Institute's Top Threats lists , some of which I have contributed to, one would find the range of threats and vulnerabilities...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 01-14-2008
Filed under: Internet Hacks, Spam\Phishing, Security
Symantec Security Response Weblog: "Referer" Field Used in the Battle Against Online Fraud

"Referer" Field Used in the Battle Against Online Fraud The "referer" [sic] header is generally used to track back-links in order to understand how a certain Web site is being reached by its visitors (hyperlinks on other Web sites, search engines, etc.) According to the RFC2616 ,...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 01-11-2008
Filed under: Internet Hacks, Spam\Phishing, Security
The Monster Gets Beaten Again - TrendLabs | Malware Blog - by Trend Micro

The Monster Gets Beaten Again November 23rd, 2007 by Justine Paredes Job hunters are in danger yet again. Monster.com , a job-seeking site, has been attacked for the second time, affecting Monster Company Boulevard , in particular. The said page was said to contain an iFrame, which redirected users to...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 11-26-2007
Filed under: Internet Hacks, Spam\Phishing, Security
SANS Internet Storm Center - Wildfire Scams

Wildfire Scams Published: 2007-10-26, Last Updated: 2007-10-26 00:22:35 UTC by Johannes Ullrich (Version: 1) As with any disaster in the past, we expect some scams related to the California wildfires. So far, we are happy to report that we see almost no activity. But if you come across something, please...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 10-25-2007
Filed under: Internet Hacks, Spam\Phishing, Security
SANS Internet Storm Center PDF mailto exploit documents in the wild

PDF mailto exploit documents in the wild Published: 2007-10-23, Last Updated: 2007-10-23 15:55:54 UTC by Adrien de Beaupre (Version: 1) The vulnerability initially reported here http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=3406 and confirmed here (with workaround) http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=3477...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 10-23-2007
Filed under: Internet Hacks, Internet Applications, Spam\Phishing, Security
555 8th Ave - F-Secure Weblog : News from the Lab

555 8th Ave Posted by Sean @ 15:15 GMT | Comments The Russian Business Network has a curious domain registration history. Here's the given address for the later half of 2006: The 555 reminded us of the fake phone numbers used in Hollywood movies so we decided to do a search on the address. There...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 10-22-2007
Filed under: Internet Hacks, Spam\Phishing, Security
Spot Checking Websites using Google Alerts - SANS Internet Storm Center

Spot Checking Websites using Google Alerts Published: 2008-02-03, Last Updated: 2008-02-04 05:20:38 UTC by Scott Fendley (Version: 1) While thinking of ideas of what cool and interesting thing I could share with our readers, it came to mind that I haven't shared a tip that another university employee...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 02-04-2008
Filed under: Internet Hacks, Spam\Phishing, Security

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