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Firefox Disables Microsoft .NET Addon

By aewhale - 10/20/2009 I recommend that you disable and then uninstall this add-on for FireFox from Microsoft. Its just another vulnerability introduced by Microsoft.

Sneaky Microsoft Add-On Put Firefox Users At Risk

By aewhale - 10/17/2009 "Windows Presentation Foundation" plugin slipped into FireFox last February left the popular browser open for attack. Talk about the monopoly in the world.

Use Linux to avoid Bank Fraud

By aewhale - 10/15/2009 More news storied arise about bank accounts being emptied from computer malware being installed on PCs. While we offer a new solution for your PC protection, we also acknowledge that linux is still the safer solution.

Cyber-criminal Left In Charge of Prison Computer Network

By aewhale - 10/8/2009 What were they thinking? Prison officials hired a convicted cyber criminal to program some code. What do you think happened?

Massive Phishing Campaign Hits multiple Email Services

By aewhale - 10/8/2009 Unsecured Email services are hacked and send massive amounts of spam. Lame passwords, like '12345' appear in some of the effective accounts. Proving once again that passwords are the best security.

Sloppy Linux Admins enable slow bruteforce attacks

By aewhale - 10/6/2009 Just because you are running a Linux server, does not make your responsibility for security disappear.

DHS to hire 1,000 Cyber Security experts

By aewhale - 10/5/2009 The Government has approved the hiring of 1,000 cybersecurity experts to protect the nations cyber infrastructure, systems and networks.

Show-shoe Spam?

By aewhale - 10/4/2009 Snow shoe spam is spam messages sent from multiple IP addresses and Domain names to a Mailbox near you!

Fake Anti-Virus software on the rise

By aewhale - 10/2/2009 Are you safe on-line? Using a reputable Anti-Virus software package is becoming more difficult (we offer safe alternatives for you).

New Bahama botnet fuels click fraud

By aewhale - 9/26/2009 If you have a Pay Per Click campaign, you should be aware of a new Botnet which evades the search engine's detection.

Security breach since 2007 leaves 163,000 women exposed

By aewhale - 9/29/2009 These women were patients of a breast cancer screening hospital, and now they are also exposed to the potential of identity theft as well.

Cyber Gangs raid bank accounts of organizations

By aewhale - 9/28/2009 The Washington Post's Security Fix blog has published a rapid-fire succession of investigative stories on the theft of hundreds of thousands of dollars from companies, schools, and public institutions at the hands of organized cyber thieves and 'money mules,' willing or unwitting people recruited via online job scams.

Up to 9% of you company's machines are Bot infected

By aewhale - 9/26/2009 Up to 9% of your company's machines can be infected by a boutique botnet customized to infect your organization.

Hey I got Money in RBTT Bank!

By aewhale - 9/18/2009 This is yet another Spam message trapped by the Spam Zapper. I really love seeing all of the Spam coming from Email Hosting Providers.

Visiting China? Get a throw away phone.

By aewhale - 9/17/2009 Intelligence agencies are recommending that you throw your cell phone away, after visiting China.

Linux Based Web Servers used to control Botnets

By aewhale - 9/13/2009 Linux being used to control a complete network of Botnets which communicate to infect others. Linux, the secure choice for Hackers worldwide.

New tool calculates your value to Identity theives

By aewhale - 9/11/2009 Wow, that sounds useful. I think that Symantec should be working on making their security tools safer, not telling the thieves how much your ID is valued at.

FTP attacks on Microsoft

By Admin - 9/8/2009 OK, in case you haven't heard, the FTP protocol sends your User name and Password on the Internet using Plain Text. Meaning my 7 year daughter could read your login credentials for you! Time to eliminate clear text protocols.

Is your Ex hacking into your Email?

By Admin - 9/8/2009 Is your Ex hiring the services at YourHackerz.com to read your web based email at AOL, Yahoo, Gmail, Facebook or Hotmail?

Woman sues bank for Hacker stealing $26,000.00

By Admin - 9/5/2009 An Illinois district court has allowed a couple to sue their bank on the novel grounds that it may have failed to sufficiently secure their account, after an unidentified hacker obtained a $26,500 loan on the account using the customers’ user name and p...

Latest site for Identity theft - Walmart-Winners.com

By Admin - 9/3/2009 This site is asking you to complete a survey for you to get $150 credit from Walmart. Hey want free money from Walmart - Warning this is another scam.

Australian Police Database Lacked Root Password

By Admin - 8/20/2009 Ooops! Some one forget to secure the database. Where were the security guys?

Local privilege escalation on Linux Kernels

By Admin - 8/14/2009 A security flaw found in Linux kernels since 2001. Are your servers safe?

Pay per Email, with Yahoo!

By Admin - 8/14/2009 Wasn't this a previousl free email service? Guess that didn't work did it?

Man Jailed After Using LimeWire For ID Theft

By Admin - 8/13/2009 Are your kids using a File Sharing tool on your PC? Looks like you need our Identity theft protection tool.

WordPress Exploit Allows Admin Password Reset

By Admin - 8/13/2009 First you have the Blog, then you don't! Is this web hosting with holes?

UK National ID Card Cloned In 12 Minutes

By aewhale - 8/8/2009 What is the benefit of a National ID Card that can be duplicated (or created even) in less than 12 minutes?

Null-Prefix SSL Attacks Enabled In New sslsniff

By Admin - 8/5/2009 Yet another attack method for Internet Explorer an Microsoft Outlook.

BIOS "Rootkit" Preloaded In 60% of New Laptops

By Admin - 8/2/2009 Ah the smell of a New Laptop ... sigh, I guess that fast running computer is gone.

Bootkit Bypasses TrueCrypt Encryption

By Admin - 8/2/2009 This permits a Hacker to bypass the encryption security on your hard disk to bypass the encryption and grant them direct access to your data, data which you thought was secure.

Apple Keyboard Firmware Hack Demonstrated

By Admin - 8/2/2009 Apple keyboards are vulnerable to a hack that puts keyloggers and malware directly into the device's firmware.

MI5 Website Breached By Hacker

By aewhale - 7/31/2009 While they admit that their site was breached by hackers, they claim that they did not misuse the breach on their site. (How is that possible?)

P2P Network Exposes Obama's Safehouse Location

By aewhale - 7/30/2009 What else can I get from Limewire?

Spam levels continue to rise

By aewhale - 7/30/2009 Global levels of spamare over 90%, while it also reaches more than 95% in Europe.

New DoS Vulnerability In All Versions of BIND 9

By aewhale - 7/30/2009 OK, who broke the internet?

Sandia Labs studies how a botnet will effect 1 million computers

By aewhale - 7/29/2009 How many people out there wanted to know the effects of a botnet on their computer and 999,999 others.

92% of Windows PCs Vulnerable To Zero-Day Attacks On Flash

By aewhale - 7/29/2009 Adobe will not patch this until Thursday.

Could Cyber-Terrorists Provoke Nuclear Attacks?

By aewhale - 7/28/2009 I';ve always said that the Internet places your enemy a few router hops away.

Security Certificate Warnings Don't Work

By aewhale - 7/28/2009 What do you do if you get a web server certificate error?

America's 10 Most-Wanted Botnets

By aewhale - 7/23/2009 .... The Zeus Trojan uses key-logging techniques to steal user names, passwords, account numbers and credit card numbers, and it injects fake HTML forms into online banking login pages to steal user data.

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