F-Secure

An Estonian virus writer has been sentenced to jail in Harju, Estonia. The author of the Allaple virus family, 44-year old Mr

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Allaple Virus Author Sentenced

F-Secure has an additional blog that launched today. It’s called Safe and Savvy .

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Be Savvy, Get Six Months of Internet Security

I wasn’t sure I’d see this Browser Choice update : I set my computer’s Regional Options for the United States even though it’s physically located in Finland (I’m an American after all). Regional settings might trump my IP address, I thought… but it seems not. I manually ran Microsoft Update and was provided access to KB976002

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Select Your Web Browser(s)

ATM skimmers are installed like this: Video source: Spiegel.de & German Federal Criminal Office (Bundeskriminalamt) On 10/03/10 At 12:06 PM

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How are ATM skimmers installed?

Microsoft schedules its security updates on the second Tuesday of the month. Adobe recently began following this schedule as well, and while there are no Adobe updates today, there was an out-of-cycle security update two weeks ago.

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PDF Based Targeted Attacks are Increasing

As ” JiLsi ” — one of the online criminals from Darkmarket — was sentenced last week to almost five years in prison, we have received some media queries on the case. In particular, one journalist wanted to know what JiLsi (aka Renu Subramaniam), Matrix001 (aka Markus Kellerer) and Cha0 (aka Çağatay Evyapan) looked like when they were posting to the Darkmarket forum.

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Darkmarket Avatars

Somebody is trying to pose as us.

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Desperate phishing attempt

Just when we thought SEO using Flash was as interesting as SEO poisoning can get, it seems it’s getting even sneakier… Imagine a PDF file posted by someone evil online. Of course, Google being Google, the file is recognized as a PDF

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The Morphing PDF

Another day, another news, and well… another SEO Poisoning stint. Using PDF files in SEO poisoning is a bit recent, but not exactly fresh news.

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SEO Poisoning Sites Use Flash for Redirection

Remember Microsoft’s action against 277 Waledac domains last week? Well, that’s one way of going after a botnet… Another way of shutting down a botnet

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Another Bot Bites the Dust?