Monthly Archives: June 2009
Chinese government delays Green Dam requirement (maybe forever)
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June 30, 2009
The Chinese government’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced today through the Xinhua news agency that there would be an indefinite delay in the enforcement of a rule requiring the installation of Internet filtering software Green Dam-Youth Escort on …
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You have no privacy: What you buy may affect your credit
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Interesting article: Have you used your credit card at merchants specializing in secondhand clothing, retread tires, bail bond services, massages, casino gambling or betting? Your credit card issuer may be taking note — and making decisions about your creditworthiness based …
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StopBadware.org and Sunbelt Partner to Fight Badware
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Sunbelt is excited to be working with StopBadware.org, the collaborative initiative to combat viruses, spyware, and other bad software. Sunbelt will participate in the effort as a data partner to provide information to support and encourage website owners and web …
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Michael Jackson spam loads zbot – don’t go there
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The domain, complete with Matrix-like animation, is running “Unique Pack” exploit package version 2. Subject: Who killed Michael Jackson?Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:14:46 -0300From: x-files Reply-To: xxxxx@xxxx.comTo: xxxxx@xxxx.com Michael Jackson Was Killed… But Who Killed Michael Jackson? Visit X-Files …
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Dangerous new spam run infects users through PDF exploit
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Yesterday, our honeypots started detecting a dangerous new spam run, pushing a fake update for Outlook and Outlook Express. Purporting to come from Microsoft, the spam pushes people to a web page which then redirects to a page serving a …
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ByteHosting rogue firm settles with FTC for $117K
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James Reno of Amelia, Ohio, the brains behind an elaborate series of rogue anti-malware companies, and his firm ByteHosting, have agreed to pay $117,000 — what’s left of $1.9 million of ill-gotten gains — to settle an action brought by …
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Security education: ineffective or the wrong approach?
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Employees don’t give two hoots about security or security policies. They share passwords with colleagues; they share work devices with others without supervision; they transfer files from their laptop to home computer; they use their corporate email address to subscribe …
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Spear phishing attacks reported at U.S. company whose code was ripped off for China’s Green Dam spyware
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June 29, 2009
Late last week someone began attacks on the California company whose code was illegally used in China’s Green Dam-Youth Escort spyware. In May the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced that computers sold in the country after July …
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Useful Gmail security feature
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Your Gmail account could be hijacked or viewed by someone else. So it’s nice to know from where it’s being accessed. You can do this with a handy-dandy feature in Gmail, located at the bottom of the Gmail page: …
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Zango v. Kaspersky
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June 26, 2009
Anti-malware providers got good news today from the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Seattle, Wash. Readers of this blog may remember the lawsuit that Zango filed against Kaspersky back in 2007 for blocking its software. As we reported, …
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