US crime-fighters closed in on a gang behind a huge botnet after taking control of the criminals’ servers. The authorities issued their own commands, effectively ordering the malware to shut down. They also logged the IP addresses of compromised machines. BBC news wrote about it, as ESET’s David Harley in the article Coreflood Reduced to … More CyberThreats Daily: FBI closes in on zombie PC gang
Protecting your passwords is a vital component of keeping your online accounts safe and secure. Careless users often find themselves the victim of email or Facebook hacks. Armed with the right information, it only takes a few moments to properly secure your email accounts, social networking profiles and sensitive, web based logins. The nice people at Facecrooks have … More CyberThreats Daily: The Top Ten Commandments of Password Protection
Just the other day a journalist commented to me, as so many have before, that “surely people can be relatively safe online, if they just avoid dodgy sites” (and by dodgy sites, they usually mean porn or piracy sites). After all the years of telling people about malicious code injections, about drive-by downloads, and about … More Security Feature: Misplaced trust in trustworthy names?
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