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McAfee's Site Advisor Blocking n.runs AG - "for starters"

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2008-08-04 09:42:49 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...harmful sites that haven't been re-checked in months, with Hack in the Box's case the link was last checked in February, 2008. And since hitb.org is now distributing spyware, any site that it links to is also flagged as badware, like hackinthebox.org itself When we tested this site we found links to hitb.org, which we found to be a...
 
Tags: site, site advisor, org due, org, dangerous site, specific site, malicious, harmful sites, sites
 
 
 
 
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All Your iFrame Are Point to Us

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2008-02-11 13:57:00 by Panayiotis Mavrommatis in Google Online Security Blog
...Harmful The above graph shows the percentage of daily queries that contain at least one search result labeled as harmful. In the past few months, more than 1% of all search results contained at least one result that we believe to point to malicious content and the trend seems to be increasing Browsing Habits Good computer hygiene, such as...
 
Tags: malware distribution sites, malware distribution, malware, anti-malware team, malware payload, chinese web servers, servers, regular web sites, web sites
 
 
 
 
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All Your iFrame Are Point to Us

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2008-02-11 13:57:00 by Panayiotis Mavrommatis in Google Online Security Blog
...Harmful The above graph shows the percentage of daily queries that contain at least one search result labeled as harmful. In the past few months, more than 1% of all search results contained at least one result that we believe to point to malicious content and the trend seems to be increasing Browsing Habits Good computer hygiene, such as...
 
Tags: malware distribution sites, malware distribution, malware, anti-malware team, malware payload, chinese web servers, servers, regular web sites, web sites
 
 
 
 
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Introducing Google's online security efforts

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2007-05-21 09:43:00 by A Googler in Google Online Security Blog
...harmful and even prevent exploits from loading with Google Desktop Search Unfortunately, the scope of the problem has recently been somewhat misreported to suggest that one in 10 websites are potentially malicious. To clarify, a sample-based analysis puts the fraction of malicious pages at roughly 0.1% . The analysis described in our paper...
 
Tags: activity, malware activity, web servers, servers, malware, anti- malware effort, malware distribution servers, sites, web sites
 
 
 
 
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10 things you should be doing to protect your company against email risks

2007-11-02 23:30:15 by Administrator in Email security & compliance blog
 
...harmful than they seem and stress that employees that witness abuse of the email system must report this to their supervisor. This will boost productivity and help avoid many of the email risks 3: Install anti-virus software. Even though nowadays almost all companies have virus software scanning files on the server and client machines, not...
 
Tags: policy, email policy violations, email-policy, email policy rules, rules, email policy, risks, email risks, email
 
 
 
 
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Fear Is Unhealthy

2008-01-17 07:35:09 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...harmful than actual terrorism. That's the whole point of terrorism: an amplification of fear through the mass media Refuse to be terrorized : The point of terrorism is to cause terror, sometimes to further a political goal and sometimes out of sheer hatred. The people terrorists kill are not the targets; they are collateral damage. And...
 
Tags: people terrorists kill, terrorists, terrorism, actual terrorism, kill, people, fear, million people, fearful people
 
 
 
 
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Downloading Free Spyware Adware Removal Programs

2007-08-01 19:25:00 by jack in adware and spyware
 
...harmful as the spyware and adware itself Computer users are also advised to set up a firewall and a backup disk because no matter how great the system is, hackers and other designers out there are still coming up with newer ones that can bypass the system Given that the threat is always there, wont it be good idea to get something that can...
 
Tags: free, free program courtesy, free program, free spyware, spyware, adware, adware programs, spyware guard, program
 
 
 
 
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Malicious subtitle file could trip up media player

2008-03-18 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
The VLC media player, part of the open-source VideoLAN project, includes a buffer-overflow vulnerability that would allow a hacker to execute harmful code on PCs, Macs, BSD machines and perhaps more
 
Tags: vlc media player, execute harmful code, open-source videolan project, buffer-overflow vulnerability, bsd machines, hacker, pcs, includes, macs
 
 
 
 
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Malicious subtitle file could trip up VLC media player

2008-03-18 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b50254 in Network World on Security
 
A flaw in the widely-used open-source VLC media player could allow an attacker to execute harmful code on a PC
 
Tags: execute harmful code, attacker, flaw