Whole Foods, a popular health and organic grocery chain, is the subject of a new Facebook scam that phishes for users’ credit and other personal information. A deluge of fraudulent Facebook Pages are popping up that promise a limited number of users Whole Foods gift cards. These Pages are accruing thousands of fans and siphoning…
Good God! A 419 scam email from someone in grade school! From: FBI AGENT [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 7:34 AM Subject: FBI AGENT Hello honest people……… We got your contact from our Microsoft data-base system. This is to inform you all that have lost money to Scammers in Africa, Europe and USA. We…
Spyware/DDoS malware combo Google’s security team member Neel Mehta has blogged about yet one more spyware attack on Google users from Asia. This time forces in Vietnam apparently are trying to spy on and stifle dissent from those opposed to the expansion of bauxite mining in the country’s central highlands. The dissenters are opposed to…
Apple has issued Security Update 2010-002 (Mac OS X v10.6.3) that fixes 100 enumerated vulnerabilities in: — Mac OS X 10.5 — Mac OS X 10.6 — Mac OS X Server 10.5 — Mac OS X Server 10.6 The 400 MB+ download takes a while, so, be prepared. Info here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4077
It seems I prompted an exploration of infection related search terms in Google Trends over on the Forbes.com Firewall blog. “Malware” is becoming a sort of catch-all term for end-users, slowly replacing the various types of Ad/Mal/Spyware classifications. Article here – worth checking out the comment by Andy Hayter, Anti-Malcode Program Manager of ICSA Labs,…
Didier Stevens, security professional and blogger, has found a “feature” in the PDF file format that makes it possible to package an executable in a PDF file which will run in Foxit PDF reader or run in Adobe Reader with a bit of social engineering. “With Adobe Reader, the only thing preventing execution is a…
MS10–018 If you’re using Internet Explorer versions 6 or 7 it wouldn’t be a good idea to miss this one. “Actively exploited” for drive by down loads from malicious web sites sums it up. There’s something in it for IE8 as well. See our post yesterday: “Microsoft out-of-band patch tomorrow”
Let the iPad hype and excitement begin: Apple’s preparation for the launch of the iPad has kicked into high gear. Today, the tech giant released version 9.1 of iTunes, its vastly popular music, app, and now book-managing software. The new update doesn’t do anything like radically change the iTunes interface. Instead, it is focused on…
Google has revealed that users can now transfer files via chat in iGoogle and Orkut. This is good news for web users with a preference for software-free chatting, but the better news is that Google promises to bring the same functionality to Gmail, which already supports voice, video and group chat. The iGoogle and Orkut…
With Google owning YouTube, the Internet’s principal delivery system for Flash-based video, it was perhaps inevitable that the company would bundle the Flash plug-in with its Chrome browser. The announcement came today from both Google and the team developing the open source Chromium component on which Chrome is based. The move now officially places Google…