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New Malware Spam Reporting Bogus Beijing Earthquake Targets Olympic Games Fans

2008-06-19 22:49:25 by CyberInsecure in CyberInsecure.com
 
Botnet operators are using false reports about an earthquake near Beijing that could disrupt the Olympic games to spread malware. Unsolicited emails discovered to be a part of a new malicious spam campaign that claims another earthquake has just occurred in China, and could derail the upcoming Olympic Games. Samples of the bogus alert doing the
 
Tags: olympic games, earthquake, malicious spam campaign, botnet operators, spread malware, bogus alert, false reports, claims, samples
 
 
 
 
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War Games Sequel Goes Direct to DVD

2008-04-25 22:20:00 by Threat Level in Wired Security
 
Here's the trailer for the upcoming War Games: The Dead Code, a sequel too good to waste on theatergoers
 
Tags: war games, sequel, dead code, waste, theatergoers, trailer
 
 
 
 
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The DDoS Attack Against CNN.com

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2008-04-22 19:30:53 by HASH0x8b2d1ec in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...Games will be held in our beloved motherland, which is the dream of the people look forward to for a long time, and we in the passing of the torch in the process of being repeatedly obstructed because we all know that, as an act of Tibetan independence elements each of us Mission hearts have a personal anger. Then we briefly look at the...
 
Tags: ddos, ddos-ing cnn, cnn, ddos people, warfare, information warfare attack, attack, ddos attack, chinese script kiddies
 
 
 
 
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Show 016 - An Interview with Greg Hoglund

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2007-07-12 22:38:30 by rmacmich in The Silver Bullet Security Podcast
...Games , Gary and Greg discuss the natural tendency of certain types of code to allow exploits, how disclosure is a good thing when it comes to revealing exploits, and the use of rootkits by the good guys. Greg also makes us concerned that his 11-year-old daughter may 0wn our box Rootkit.com HB Gary Gregs Blackhat presentation from 2006:...
 
Tags: greg, greg hoglund, rootkit design rar, rootkit, gary talks, gary, online games, greg discuss, gregs blackhat presentation
 
 
 
 
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Throw away your digital picture frames

2008-02-19 03:36:49 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...games -- and its designers might have larger targets in mind It is a nasty worm that has a great deal of intelligence," said Brian Grayek, who heads product development at Computer Associates, a security vendor that analyzed the Trojan Horse... The authors of the new Trojan Horse are well-funded professionals whose malware has "specific...
 
Tags: frames, picture frames, trojan, generic trojan, digital photo frames, trojan horse, virus apparently, malware, windows
 
 
 
 
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Beijing Olympics Lottery Phishers Verify Their Victims

2008-08-05 22:49:26 by CyberInsecure in CyberInsecure.com
 
Websense has recently discovered another rogue Beijing Olympics website, this time for fake ticket lottery. The Web site uses the hostname that is a clear typo-squat to the official Olympic Games Web site at beijing2008.cn. Benefiting from the hype around the purchasing of tickets for the Games, the social engineering tactic behind this scam is to
 
Tags: fake ticket lottery, olympics website, web site, websense, games, hype, time, hostname, rogue
 
 
 
 
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Spammers leverage interest in Olympics

2008-08-07 00:00:00 by John Ribeiro in Network World on Security
 
Public interest in the Olympic Games is helping spammers, who are using text related to the games in e-mails to get users to click through to their malware and phishing Web sites, or to go to product sites, according to an executive at Symantec
 
Tags: games, olympic games, web sites, spammers, product sites, symantec, e-mails, malware, users
 
 
 
 
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Some IPFW students exposed through malware

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2007-11-29 13:26:49 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...games, chat, etc 7. Seek experienced help if you aren't sure of something There are plenty more, but this well get you started Past Breaches Unknown
 
Tags: purdue university, university, information, personal information, university department, university fort wayne, computer, vulnerable information, students
 
 
 
 
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Forget the IPhone, Give me the JPhone

2007-07-25 21:56:46 by jrjones in Jeff Jones Security Blog
 
...games (e.g. bejeweled 2, poker I want to be able to load up and run a VOIP client and connect to my home network to accept or make calls I would like to be able to access the Internet to check movie times I would like to play my music So, in summary, I just want a small, stylish phone, with Outlook scheduling and good Internet usability. It'd...
 
Tags: actual phone, phone, stylish phone, phone vendor, phone vendors, smart phone, keyboard, soft keyboard, change
 
 
 
 
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Revolution through Competition?

2008-01-07 09:15:52 by Editor in IEEE Security and Privacy
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