Facebook phishing attack sought passwords

A Facebook e-mail phishing scheme was discovered early Thursday among users of the popular social networking site who may have inadvertently clicked on a fraudulent Web link included in a Facebook message to them.

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ConsumerMan: Beware of cute e-cards

Your “secret admirer” just sent you an electronic Valentine’s Day card and you can’t wait to find out who it’s from. Think twice before you do that. Your computer could wind up with a digitally transmitted disease.

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Criminals try to "copyright" malware

Even criminal hackers want to protect their intellectual property, and they've come up with a method akin to copyrighting — with an appropriate dash of Internet thuggery thrown in.

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Visitors to technology blog Gizmodo are being warned that they could have picked up more than tips about the latest must-have gadget.

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Trend Micro threat analysts were alerted to the discovery of a zero-day exploit that affects Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.1.3 and earlier versions (CVE-2009-3459). Trend Micro detects this as TROJ_PIDIEF.UO.

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[Manila, Philippines] The ads served by Bing and Google along with your search results are linking more and more often to sites trying to infect your machine. Neither Bing nor Google effectively prescreens these bogus advertisers, so it's up to us to detect and avoid them.

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New malware being used by cybercrooks does more than let hackers loot a bank account; it hides evidence of a victim's dwindling balance by rewriting online bank statements on the fly, according to a new report.

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A network of Russian malware writers and spammers paid hackers 43 cents for each Mac machine they infected with bogus video software, a sign that Macs have become attack targets, a security researcher said yesterday.

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A report (PDF) released by a cyber-intelligence company called Cyveillance suggests that the antivirus industry is failing to keep up with the cybercriminal enterprise and the threats that are most likely to affect Web users.

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Microsoft Corp on Thursday filed five civil lawsuits in Seattle, Washington against alleged "malvertisers."

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OVER the weekend, some visitors to the Web site of The New York Times received a nasty surprise. An unknown person or group sneaked a rogue advertisement onto the site's pages.

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Elance just suffered its second network security issue, sending thousands of emails containing private information to third parties. Read more: #ixzz0QBUZshYw

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The program, known as Conficker, uses flaws in Windows software to co-opt machines and link them into a virtual computer that can be commanded remotely by its authors.

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File Quarantine is Mac users' first line of defense against malicious software.

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Apple's commercials may give the impression that Macs are virus-free (.mov) but the company isn't taking any chances with the newest Mac OS X refresh.

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If the online chatter is to be believed, Apple's very soon to be released Snow Leopard has in its code new protection for fighting malware.

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The 100 websites most affected by viruses each have about 18,000 nasties to attack net users' computers, an internet security company says. Simply visiting one of the

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A whole in the BIOS system could allow someone to take over your computer from another location.

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Be cautious about sites that ask you to install a missing video plug-in...

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Twitter is suspending the accounts of some users whose computers have fallen victim to a well-known piece of malicious software that has targeted other sites such as Facebook and MySpace.

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Thousands of websites have been hit by fast-moving exploit code that installs a cocktail of nasty malware on visitors' computers by targeting a previously unknown vulnerability in some versions of Internet Explorer.

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When you look at the worst corporate security breaches, it's clear that network managers keep making the same mistakes over and over again, and that many of these mistakes are easy to avoid.

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A Sydney radio show has been caught up in a global Michael Jackson spam storm, after its website was hijacked in a bid to infect users with malware.

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The Anti-Malvertising site has been enhanced with additional educational materials relevant to "all Web publishers, ad operations teams and Internet users." Among the recommendations for publishers is that they perform comprehensive QA on creatives and that they avoid ad networks …

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Microsoft's Malicious Software Removal Tool was updated this week to detect a generic type of fake antivirus program known as "Win32/InternetAntivirus."

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A well-known security consultant says Apple is struggling to effectively protect its users against malware and other online threats and suggests executives improve by adopting a secure development lifecycle to design its growing roster of products.

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We're not going to start hiding our millions under our mattress (that's right, all bloggers roll in obscene amounts of money and own private jets), but the next time we withdraw a wad of cash, it might be a good idea to skip the ATM and flirt with a real live teller instead.

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With a little more digging, Schouwenberg found multiple Windows system restore points, typically an indication that the machine had been updated with new drivers or software had been installed before it left the factory.

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