Archive for March, 2006
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180 Solutions has a “spring clean”, but with a nice twist!
And that twist is that Jimmy Daniels of ReveNews had an interesting interview from an 180 insider. This coming after Wayne Porter posted an interesting article regarding a "spring clean" 180 have carried out recently. To quote a few lines from Jim
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“P.I.R.T Update”
Very interesting discussion going on over at Vitalsecurity about the new PIRT Community that got launched earlier this week. Apparently this new community is to build a DoS community rather than a phishing one, according to Neosmart....Huh??? Yeah
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Security-Cadets gets a Support Forum.
Just a quick post in between the security news out there. I have set up a support forum for Security-Cadets. A simple one for now. And hopefully one that expands. I'm not set out to annoy anyone. Or prove to people I can do this or that. This is f
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Fancy doing some “phishing” on cold dark days?
Offcourse I mean terminating "phishing" and not talking about the "fish" type. CastleCops and SunBelt have announced of a new community. the Phishing Incident Reporting and Termination (PIRT) Squad. This will be a community at CastleCops solely
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SpywareQuake Update…
...Thanks to Temerc. The following files have also been identified to have this infection:- "%SYSDIR%\dxmpp.dll %SYSDIR%\ginuerep.dll %SYSDIR%\dfrgsrv.exe" And the "stickrep.dll" has been found to have a brother, with a different MD5. At t
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New Rogue Application – SpywareQuake
You better believe it. It is - like you can guess - part of the SpyAxe/SpywareStrike/SpyFalcon crew. I won't link you to the posts we have here on those. There are way too many. The .dll file this rogue application leaves is stickrep.dll, whic
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StopBadware.org – First reports
Way back in January I reported about the new StopBadware coalition. Well two months on and their first round of reports are out. Yesterday actually. "After a month or so of reading feedback from users, researching what others have done, and discus
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Not eveyday you come second in a search behind WinAntiVirusPro.
Something comical really. You all know by now about the MalwareComplaints forum that gets end users to file a complaint about rogue vendors they have had trouble with. Well here is something to chuckle at. Type in "winantiviruspro" into Google. An
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Microsoft is planning to release new versions of IE shortly after IE7.0.
With Internet Explorer's release only about nine months away. Microsoft are already talking about having rapid releases to follow the long awaited IE7.0. It has been five years till we last had an update for Internet Explorer. And this comes on a
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Microsoft is launching legal action against 100 phishing gangs…
..based in the Middle East and Africa. And even the UK. The legal cases follow investigative work undertaken by Microsoft, national police forces and Interpol. What is a phishing gang? Phishing gangs send out e-mails to try and make you ent
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The power of botnets – Sunbelt
With botnets becoming more active these days. It wouldn't take long before one included in a fake windows update screen. Without going into great details and destroying the excellent write-up by Sunbelts Alex Eckelberry I recommend you check the stor
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Security-Cadets gets a face lift. The british way!
Just yesterday I posted asking for some help with HTML/Web-Design. And it didn't take long. A long friend by the name Sammi_Babe kindly offered. She also designed the 88x31 Malware Complaint banner you see on this blog and on signatures/support board
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Opportunity Knocks.
That's right. For HTML experts and web-designers. My knowledge on these subjects is very poor. If you have some spare time(and only if you have spare time, because my moneybank is empty) and want to make a template or design a site within the blog
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An antispyware application which bundles in adware
Well I did steal that line from SunBelts Alex Eckelberry. None the less the article he posted about "easier ways to make money selling antispyware applications: Bundle adware" created some interest. Thirty one comments. Most I have seen for awhile ab
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Sorry for the lack of Posts…
...But been very busy of late. Setting up MalwareComplaints with anti-malware fighters across the world. And helping with server attacks for a friends hosting company. This is how it will be for the next few months. Concentrating on MalwareComplai
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