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Sexual assault by Internet
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| Now, this is different. A computer cracker,
| Luis Mijangos of Santa Ana, CA has been
| arrested by the FBI for taking over more
| than 100 Windows PCs and using what he
| found on them to extort sexually explicit
| videos from women and teenage girls by
| threatening to release their personal data.
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http://blogs.computerworld.com/16413/sexual_assault_by_internet
Save the Women and Children From That Other OS
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| A predator distributed malware to PCs
| through digital music files. He used the
| malware to gather information and control
| PCs which escalated to demanding explicit
| images and video from the ladies.
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http://pogson.6k.ca/2010/06/25/save-the-women-and-children-from-that-other-os/
Malicious code on Lenovo driver download page - Update
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| The driver download portal of hardware
| manufacturer Lenovo temporarily deployed
| malicious code. Various virus scanners
| issued alerts about a Java-based Trojan
| downloader or dropper. The iframe injected
| by attackers points to the volgo-marun.cn
| server and can still be found on several
| pages of the download.lenovo.com server.
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http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Malicious-code-on-Lenovo-driver-download-page-Update-1025886.html
Anti-Virus Elite 2010 Looking for a Way to Hijack your PC
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| Be sure not to trust this soft! Remove it
| as soon as you notice it on your PC! These
| are just several warnings flying around the
| web these days.
|
| Cyber criminals have created a new
| rogueware, named Anti-Virus Elite 2010.
| Usually installed from malicious websites,
| or during the process of downloading video
| codecs or updates for your computer, the
| fake application starts its activities as
| soon as it gets to your PC.
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http://www.pc1news.com/news/1486/anti-virus-elite-2010.html
OU Reports Virus, Security Breach
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| The University of Oklahoma is warning
| students about a security breach that may
| put their personal information at risk.
|
| The university said its Information
| Technology department noticed unusual
| Internet activity on a laptop computer
| associated with its network. It said it
| determined the computer belonged to an
| employee and was infected with a virus
| known as Zeus or Z-Bod.
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http://www.koco.com/mostpopular/24031441/detail.html
South Central Ambulance Service hit by computer virus
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| A virus has hit parts of the computer
| system used by South Central Ambulance
| Service (SCAS).
|
| The problem first occurred on Tuesday but
| has not affected the parts used to deal
| with 999 calls, the trust said.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/10288832.stm
BIS helped uncover computer attack on G20 meeting
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| The Czech counter-intelligence service
| (BIS), along with other secret services,
| last year participated in the investigation
| into the attack on the information systems
| of the delegates to the G20 summit in
| Seoul, BIS says in its report for 2009,
| released on its website.
|
| Last June, the BIS as an intelligence
| service of the EU presiding country
| uncovered a "sophisticated attempt at
| cybernetic espionage."
|
| According to the BIS annual report, the
| contact persons at the finance ministries
| of the participating countries received
| forged electronic post in the form of an
| attachment to an e-mail with a special pdf
| file containing "a harmful code."
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http://www.praguemonitor.com/2010/06/24/bis-helped-uncover-computer-attack-g20-meeting
New zombie code in effect by December
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| The Federal Government, alongside the
| Internet Industry Association (IIA),
| yesterday launched a code of practice that
| aims to reduce the amount of zombie-
| infected computers on the internet.
|
| Zombie-infected computers are PCs connected
| to the internet that are infected with
| malware.
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http://www.zdnet.com.au/new-zombie-code-in-effect-by-december-339303681.htm
Recent:
One-third of Security Essentials users infected: Microsoft
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| Almost a third of the customers who have
| installed Microsoft's free Security
| Essentials software have been found to be
| suffering from major malware infections.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/28745/53/
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