Apple capitulates
Much as I admire their operating system and hardware, Apple still does have quite a bit to learn about security, so we’ll need to keep pounding them when they do something moronic like bundling Safari into a Quicktime update (which included a security fix).
Sunpoll: Majority believe Windows is in trouble
Interesting results from our non-scientific poll here (you can vote yourself on the front page of our site)
Will Baywords be a new haven for malware pushers and spammers?
BayWords is a new effort by the folks at PirateBay to have an uncensored blog.
Google Pages Porn Malware Invasion Continues Unabated
Wow, what a cluster f*. Hundreds of thousands of pages, if not over a million.
Examples (warning: graphic language):
People still give passwords for chocolate
Now, considering chocolate in Europe is about 100x better than American chocolate, this may come as no surprise
Blogged to death
This is silly. A New York Times article talks about the unbearable stress of being a blogger
Google Groups continues to be inundated with malware-pushing porn
As we’ve seen before, this continues to be a problem on Google Groups: Fake posts pushing porn that pushes malware (fake codecs)
FTC educates on phishing, malware
Not too shabby for gubmint work. Press release here, main site here.
These videos are also on YouTube:
Heads-up: Dangerous new customized IRS scam steals data
This afternoon, we got a highly customized email purporting to come from the IRS, which of course, does nothing more than load malware.
Offensive Computing... yeah, it's a joke
I suspect quite a few people in the malware research space got pretty unnerved when they first saw Offensive Computing’s site today:
OFT forces web billing company to limit pop-ups
A company has been forced to change its use of pop-up advertisements by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT), which investigated the company's practices under legislation protecting consumers against unfair contracts
New Pandex campaign (repost due to ealier post being borked)
Not major news, but there’s a new Pandex campaign going around (Pandex is a trojan that turns your machine into a spam zombie).
Uncomfirmed: Facebook accounts hacked to show sick images?
Still trying to get my mind around this one
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