This is hardly a new thing – it is about a particular kind of spam trying to persuade you to give up login credentials. This has been labelled as “Phishing“, which some of you may be bored of reading about again. Unfortunately it is still the case that people fall victim to phishing attacks despite [...]
But still with a serious point :- And the serious point is that tacking the technical side of security may actually make things worse!
The DNSChanger malware that has been effectively neutralized by the take over of the Estonian servers hosting the rogue DNS servers will have a sting in the tail for those still infected when the servers are switched off on 9 July 2012 – no access to your favourite web sites or any service that requires [...]
Apr 192012
As we have had our first reports of Apple machines infected with malware, it is probably time to go into more detail on the Flashback infection. This is spread via a Java vulnerability that Apple neglected to fix as soon as it was fixed on other platforms, and they are apparently regretting this neglect. The [...]
Mar 202012
One common method of attack used in targeted attacks on organisations is the use of fake emails – an email that appears from someone important in an organisation telling someone else to do something unwise. Such as requesting that an important password be changed, or advising someone to check out some sort of attachment. Often [...]
Feb 232012
According to various reports, a bunch of malicious protesters (Anonymous) have announced plans to attach the global root DNS servers on the 31st March 2012. Another part of the same groups has distanced itself from the attack. Is this really going to happen ? And if it does, what effect will it have ? Well the only [...]
BBC’s Click programme recently undertook an investigation into financial malware – viruses that concentrate on grabbing your bank details and adding in transactions to steal money. Viruses such as “Zeus“. These infections lurk on your computer to intercept attempts to access your bank, and will insert elements into a web page to grab additional details [...]
Feb 022012
According to Sophos’s Naked Security blog, Apple have today issued a rather large set of updates for OSX. The updates include a number of very serious security vulnerabilities so we would recommend anyone running OSX apply this update as soon as possible. For the record, I have patched my laptop (running Lion) without any apparent [...]
