Yahoo! pimping malware from banner ads
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| Over the past three days, Yahoo has been exposing visitors to banner ads that
| try to trick them into installing malware, and there's no indication anyone
| at the company is even aware of the problem.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/28/yahoo_serves_rogue_ads/
Botnet agent plays lost sheep to avoid detection
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| The latest variants of Kraken have thrown up innovations in black hat stealth
| technology that are making botnets spawned by the malware harder to detect
| and dismantle.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/28/kraken_botnet/
HSBC plugs hole that exposed site directory
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| The problem was first drawn to our attention by Reg reader Martin, who came
| across it when looking at his John Lewis Partnership credit card statement.
| He told us about the bug back at the start of April.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/29/hsbc_john_lewis_security_snafu/
Anti-virus hacking contest polarizes vendors
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| Contest organisers said that the exercise will help to demonstrate
| shortcomings in signature-based virus detection. They also want to highlight
| weaknesses among anti-virus vendors exposed by the testing process, which
| will involve passing modified samples through a number of antivirus engines
| housed on a closed portal.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/28/av_hacking_contest_controversy/
Recent:
Bots rule in cyberspace
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| USA TODAY REPORTS that on an average day, 40 per cent of the 800 million
| computers connected to the Internet are bots used to send out spam, viruses
| and to mine for sensitive personal data.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/03/17/bots-rule-cyberspace
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2008-03-16-computer-botnets_N.htm
Botnets Running Rampant
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| How much money is being stolen by cybercriminals? No one knows, and no one
| even knows how to go about coming up with that number, IronPort's Peterson
| said.
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/144489/botnets_running_rampant.html
Related:
Online banking fraud 'up 8,000%'
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| The UK has seen an 8,000% increase in fake internet banking scams
| in the past two years, the government's financial watchdog has warned.
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| The Financial Services Authority (FSA) told peers it was "very concerned"
| about the growth in "phishing".
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6177555.stm
Trend, Sophos and McAfee flunk Vista SP1 anti-virus tests
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| Top tier anti-virus vendors including McAfee, Trend Micro, and Sophos all
| failed to secure Windows Vista SP1 in recent independent tests.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/03/vista_sp1_av_tests/
Does antivirus have a future?
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| Peter Gutmann, a researcher at the University of Auckland who presented the
| results of a study of the commercial market for malware at August's Defcon,
| estimates that a good virus programmer can make as much as $200,000 a year
| (here, a 660KB PDF). Alan Cox, an open-source security researcher, points out
| some additional possibilities. One is malware designed to sit under today's
| virtual machines. A proof-of-concept paper proposing such an attack, called
| Subvirt (PDF), appeared last year, written by three researchers from
| Microsoft and two from the University of Michigan. A presentation at last
| year's Black Hat security conference from Joanna Rutkowska, a researcher at
| Coseinc, a Singapore-based security company, covered a much leaner attack she
| called Blue Pill, which targets the virtualisation built into Windows Vista
| and into current processors from both AMD and Intel.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/sep/20/guardianweeklytechnologysection.spam
Is an antivirus gap looming?
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| The failure of antivirus companies to adapt to the dramatic malware
| appearance rates in 2007 tells us there's time for a change and there's room
| for a new class of tools. "AV is dead" is the battle cry of a new industry
| analyst report. Antivirus companies may not be going the way of the dodo, but
| to many customers, the concept of antivirus as the last line of defense has
| been thrown out the window. It's time for a better approach, one that can
| keep up and really defend networks.
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http://news.com.com/2010-7348_3-6195322.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news
Predicting the demise of antivirus apps
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| "It's the beginning of the end for antivirus," says Robin Bloor, partner
| at consulting firm Hurwitz & Associates, who adds he began his
| "antivirus is dead" campaign a year ago and feels even more strongly
| about it today. "I'm going to keep beating this drum. The approach
| antivirus vendors take is completely wrong. The criminals working to
| release these viruses against computer users are testing against
| antivirus software. They know what works and how to create variants."
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http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/mgmt/0047A206FF40A92ECC2572C3000FD867
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