Archive for August, 2007
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Bank of India Website Serving Up Malware!
Sunbelt Blog have reported that the Bank of India website has been seriously compromised. This was reported several hours ago and the safety of the site is still unknown. The Malware reported by Sunbelt being served by infected bankofindia.com are
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Microsoft Formally Announces Windows Vista SP1
Microsoft formally announced the long-awaited and widely speculated Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Windows Vista today as "Evolving Approach to Servicing the Windows Platform." SP1 will be released to a small group of beta testers within the next several w
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Windows Vista Validation Issue Fixed
There was a brief outage Friday evening into Saturday (24-25 August 2007) of the Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) server where Windows Vista validations were failing on genuine systems. The issue has been resolved and anyone affected needs
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Western Union get’s the “double v” threatment!
Remember when we blogged about the whole "double v scam"? Where some braniac started to set up domains thinking "vv" will fool internet users it's a "w"? ...Well this time it's not windows that was the target. Bring in Western Union. The domain th
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AOL® Active Virus Shield is no more!
That's right folks, AOL® Active Virus Shield is no more. If you remember I posted a review of Active Virus Shield just over a year ago. Now a year later it's gone. It actuallty went a few weeks ago and this is the first time I've manged to inform
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New support forum opens: PC Help & Questions
Security Cadets can happily announce the arrival of new support forums. Two new forums have arrived. One for Windows support and the other for Hardware support. These new forums do not offer any security based advice, but only windows and hardware
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Calling on all UK media!
... Well the ones who link to articles from this blog or topics in our forum. I know there are a few of you from the stats. Please contact me as I wish to chat to you in detail on items you can help me and the wider internet with. Due to the lack
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Forum Spamming: “McAfee 2008″ has a rampage on forums
Ever since we highlighted companies or fake people spam on security forums about either their product or service, it's been in the public eye alot. Smaller cases come to light which may have been swept aside before and the bigger ones get plastere
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Here goes … Another rant about Enigma.
Ever since I started in the 'security area' I have come across many people, companies and individuals. Some are an outstanding asset to this industry. Others just need a kick up the ass and set straight. And the bad need to be taken away from the int
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