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Summarizing Zero Day's Posts for August

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2008-09-04 07:40:10 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...undetectable malware ; Coordinated Russia vs Georgia cyber attack in progress and Inside India's CAPTCHA solving economy 01. Cuil's stance on privacy - "We have no idea who you are 02. Phishers increasingly scamming other phishers 03. Today's assignment : Coding an undetectable malware 04. Consumer Reports urges Mac users to dump Safari,...
 
Tags: georgia cyber attack, adobe flash exploits, malware, flash exploits, undetectable malware, inside india, day, million personal records, clientside developer blog
 
 
 
 
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Why the Need to Remove Adware and Spyware

2007-08-01 19:18:00 by jack in adware and spyware
 
...undetectable by ordinary means, users tend to believe that the problems were brought about by problems in the hardware or by a computer virus. But all the while, a spyware program is the one causing the ruckus More often not, a computer will be infected with more than one spyware program and have various components installed. Recent studies...
 
Tags: spyware, spyware programs, spyware infects, regular spyware, spyware program infects, software crashes, software, anti-virus software, anti-spyware software
 
 
 
 
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EarthLink redirect service poses security risk, expert says

2008-04-19 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
A redirect service deployed by EarthLink and other ISPs to handle mistyped Web-page requests may have given attackers an opening with which to launch undetectable phishing attacks
 
Tags: redirect service, earthlink, launch undetectable, web-page requests, isps, attacks, attackers, handle
 
 
 
 
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EarthLink redirect service poses security risk, expert says

2008-04-19 00:00:00 by Robert McMillan in Network World on Security
 
A vulnerability in servers used by EarthLink to handle mistyped Web page requests may have allowed attackers to launch undetectable phishing attacks against any Internet site, according to a noted Internet security researcher
 
Tags: web page requests, internet site, earthlink, launch undetectable, attacks, attackers, handle, vulnerability, servers
 
 
 
 
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Cell Phone Spying

2008-05-09 06:27:12 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...undetectable to the average eye Take, for example, Flexispy . The service promises to let you catch cheating wives or cheating husbands and even bug meeting rooms. Its tools use a phones microphone to let you hear essentially any conversations within earshot. Once the program is installed, all you have to do is dial a number to tap into the...
 
Tags: phone, cell phone, target phone, cell phone towers, service, service promises, location, exact location, single text message
 
 
 
 
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Researchers Released DNS Attack Code That Exploits Recently Disclosed Flaw

2008-07-24 23:01:24 by CyberInsecure in CyberInsecure.com
 
Days after details of a critical bug in the Domain Name System (DNS) software went public, researchers released attack code that can silently redirect users to unintended sites. Internet security experts warn that this code may give criminals a way to launch virtually undetectable phishing attacks against Internet users whose service providers...
 
Tags: code, attack code, silently redirect users, dns, service providers, researchers, internet users, critical bug, attacks
 
 
 
 
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Undetectable Sinowal/Torpig Trojan Steals More Than 300,000 Bank Accounts

2008-10-31 20:12:57 by CyberInsecure in CyberInsecure.com
 
Security researchers at RSAs FraudAction Research Lab have uncovered how a banking Trojan may have stolen the login credentials of as many as 300,000 online bank accounts. The Sinowal (AKA Torpig or Mebroot) trojan has also stole email and FTP account login details. Previous attempts to track the source of the Trojan were unsuccessful. The haul
 
Tags: trojan, online bank accounts, previous attempts, aka torpig, login credentials, sinowal, security researchers, source, haul
 
 
 
 
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Reading a Letter from the Envelope it Was In

2008-11-11 07:55:21 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...undetectable remaining residues Traces of inkjet printer ink can also initiate the polymer. The detection limit is so low that details of a printed letter previously in an envelope could be read off the inside of the envelope after being exposed to S 2 N 2 A one-covers-all versatile system like this has obvious potential," says Kelly This...
 
Tags: envelope, polymer reaction, system, one-covers-all versatile system, polymer, inkjet printer ink, kelly, obtain, obtain fingerprints
 
 
 
 
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Will Code Malware for Financial Incentives

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2008-11-18 13:57:55 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...undetectable piece of malware with post-purchase service in the form of automatic lower detection rate for sure, but what happens when the vendors of such releases start vertically integrating just like everyone else, and start offering OS-independent spamming, flooding, modifications and tweaking of popular crimeware kits in the very same...
 
Tags: malware, code, source malware, malware attacks, malware bot, proprietary malware tools, source code, complete source code, tools