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News Archive - January 2008
31, January 2008
Typosquatting is the newest weapon in the extensive arsenal of a web spammer. Typosquatting involves buying a whole lot of domain names that are very close to a high traffic...
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30, January 2008
The global day of love is coming. Valentines day is approaching fast and some nasty individual is taking advantage of this to spread the Newar virus. It comes in the...
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29, January 2008
Very recently, Jeremy Clarkson, presenter for BBC program Top Gear, poked fun at the idea of identity theft. He was so confident that no one could do anything but put...
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28, January 2008
Sometimes, an event called a ‘False Positive’ occurs. A False Positive is when virus definition software identifies a file or program as a threat when it’s not a threat. A...
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27, January 2008
What kind of approach does the CIO of your company take toward network security? Taking a reactive approach to network security can be the precursor to disaster in today’s...
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26, January 2008
Open source software provides an invaluable tool in the development of most software applications. Open source software like Linux and Mozilla let us concentrate on our core competencies, which in...
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24, January 2008
With the initial adoption of electronic data storage for business applications, the focus on security was primarily on physical protection. Large, terminal operated, mainframes were encased in a vault or...
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23, January 2008
If you thought that internet fraud was committed largely by individual rogue programmers out to make a quick buck, you’d be well off the truth. Internet fraud and identity theft...
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22, January 2008
Warning for internet users about the dangers of social engineering conducted by ‘black hat’ SEO programmers and malware authors. Only hours after the death of Benazir Bhutto, web searches were...
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21, January 2008
Sunbelt Blog has published a warning about a suspected 419 type spamming scam. The scam involves emailing not for profit organisations requesting donation details from an abstract foundation. Googling the...
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19, January 2008
A Kiwi programmer working for Kiwicon in New Zealand has discovered a flaw in the latest version of Microsoft Windows, Windows Vista. Beau Butler discovered that over 160, 000 PC’s...
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18, January 2008
Internet threats come in many shapes and sizes. However the most threatening are those that take advantage of the weaknesses and vulnerability of a network. Every day, mainstream software publishers...
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17, January 2008
A facet of virus protection sometimes over looked in the strive to keep up with new internet threats is the threat from old internet malware. It must be knows that...
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16, January 2008
General rules for protecting yourself against internet threats are: Never click on attachments or web links from unsolicited emails, keep anti virus and detection signatures updated and regularly apply security...
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15, January 2008
Beware the “Storm Trojan” email. It has no main body text but its subject line totes bogus head lines like \'230 dead as storm batters Europe\' or \'Chinese missile...
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14, January 2008
Its not a new threat, but the Storm Trojan is growing to be what programmers are calling, the \'perfect storm\' of cyber space. It grows like a worm by infecting...
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13, January 2008
Certain flaws in computer software can lead to systemic flaws in a computer systems security level. Hackers the exploit these vulnerabilities for personal gain and cause potentially thousands in damage...
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12, January 2008
The view that home pc\'s with a constant highspeed internet connection is highly accepted throughout the internet security community. As the popularity of broadband internet increases and the price decreases,...
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11, January 2008
A firewalls primary task is to regulate the flow of information between networks according to various trust levels. Most commonly home PC users apply firewalls to protect their computer or...
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10, January 2008
Australia ranks 18th in the world for the percentage of internet attacks. Considering there are almost 200 countries that rates pretty badly. Not surprisingly the USA ranks number one and...
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09, January 2008
A worm is a computer program that replicates itself and distributes copies of itself to other computers on a network. Initially computer worms were made with good intention however subsequent...
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08, January 2008
A key tool to internet hackers is called a “backdoor” program. More often than not they provide full remote access to a hacker of any infected computer, rendering your personal...
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07, January 2008
In July 2006, over 1 million MySpace users were exposed to a piece of malicious software that exploited a vulnerability in Windows Internet Explorer. The code was hidden in an...
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06, January 2008
Trojans represent 45% of the top 50 malicious code samples. Trojan horse codes install further malicious software on your computer whilst under the guise of doing something else. The software...
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05, January 2008
The current internet threat environment is characterized by an increase in data theft, data leakage and the creation of malicious spyware. Hundreds of hackers world wide are targeting your personal...
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04, January 2008
Adware or advertising supported software installs itself on your PC and plays, displays or initializes further downloads advertising material. Adware can hijack web browsers and take users to undesirable websites...
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03, January 2008
Protecting children from the threat of pornography, terrorist and racial web content should be at the forefront of a parents mind, especially in todays dynamic online environment. The unprecedented propagation...
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02, January 2008
The view that home pc\'s with a constant highspeed internet connection is highly accepted throughout the internet security community. As the popularity of broadband internet increases and the price decreases,...
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01, January 2008
The recent trend in pornographic sites is to mimic the names of well used websites. For example bobthebuilder.com, a highly frequented childrens entertainment site, had been closely mimicked by bobthibuilder.com,...
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