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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #241 on: February 26, 2010, 07:15:58 PM »
NOT the real VirusTotal.com

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Julio Canto (of VirusTotal fame) has noticed that somebody decided to cash in  on the good name of the site with the following domain:

virus-total(dot)in

here

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Microsoft warns over rogue Security Essentials
« Reply #242 on: March 01, 2010, 10:27:10 AM »
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Microsoft has warned Windows users to be on their guard against a piece of rogue antivirus software passing itself off as Microsoft Security Essentials.

Security essentials 2010 is a piece of software Microsoft said installs a fake virus scanner on your machine and]monitors and blocks processes it doesn't like.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/26/microsoft_security_essentials_rogue/
http://blogs.technet.com/mmpc/archive/2010/02/24/if-it-calls-itself-security-essentials-2010-then-it-s-possibly-fake-innit.aspx

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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #243 on: March 01, 2010, 05:16:43 PM »
Microsoft investigating new IE browser vulnerability

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The company warned that an attacker could host a maliciously crafted web page and run arbitrary code if they could convince a user to visit the web page and then get them to press the F1 key in response to a pop up dialog box.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=5560

IE users, thou be warned.

Dont know whether this is posted any where, but according to me, its brand new  ;)
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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #244 on: March 01, 2010, 05:53:53 PM »
New IE security issue exposed in Windows XP

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A new security issue in Internet Explorer has been exposed by a Polish technical research group.

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/security/355945/new-ie-security-issue-exposed-in-windows-xp

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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #245 on: March 01, 2010, 06:49:30 PM »
New IE security issue exposed in Windows XP
Please read the previous post.  ;)
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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #247 on: March 02, 2010, 05:30:33 PM »
Spam disguised as spam notification

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In their constant battle against anti-spam filters, spammers have recently started to camouflage their messages as spam quarantine notifications

http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=8947

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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #248 on: March 02, 2010, 06:17:24 PM »
That is hardly a new method, they have been doing this and similar for ages, usually disguised as undeliverable email. The user wants to know what and why and opens stupidly it to find out.

I can't believe this is any real benefit as using ant means of deception should turn the recipient off rather than encourage them to read it. I guess there is more than one born every minute.
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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #249 on: March 02, 2010, 08:13:25 PM »
Hi malware fighters,

Recent zero-days in the framework of the recent zero day initiative (because software vendors and developers do not take the reported leaks not seriously enough): http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/upcoming/

So keep an eye on this list,

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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #250 on: March 03, 2010, 01:34:18 PM »
Hi malware fighters,

Using the monoculture Google search-engine becomes more and more dangerous, because the potential of the Google market-share attracts cyber-criminals (malicious search-results, Fake-av etc. etc.) according to F-Secure's Sean Sullivan. Bing has far less potential malicious search results.
Use Fx with No-Script to be secure, and use another search-engine (Ixquick for instance),
Link: http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/

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« Last Edit: March 03, 2010, 01:37:26 PM by polonus »
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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #251 on: March 03, 2010, 03:14:44 PM »

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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #253 on: March 03, 2010, 05:15:18 PM »
Yes   :)  That easy huh?  Incredible
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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #254 on: March 03, 2010, 05:17:35 PM »
Hi malware fighters,

Using the monoculture Google search-engine becomes more and more dangerous, because the potential of the Google market-share attracts cyber-criminals (malicious search-results, Fake-av etc. etc.) according to F-Secure's Sean Sullivan. Bing has far less potential malicious search results.
Use Fx with No-Script to be secure, and use another search-engine (Ixquick for instance),
Link: http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/

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That is the same as saying don't use Windows, use Linux because it's safer.
The actual truth is that Google Search is used far more widely than Bing and therefor is the ideal target for attacks.
Google search itself certainly isn't any less safe than Bing or any other search engine.
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