Is Your Computer Part of a Zombie Army?
(NAPS) — Hackers and spammers may be using your computer right now. They invade secretly and hide software to get access to the information on your computer, including your e-mail program. Once on your computer, they can spy on your Internet surfing, steal your personal information and use your computer to send spam to [...]
Waledac Trojan Horse Spam Campaign Circulating
US-CERT is aware of public reports of malicious code circulating via spam email messages related to bogus terror attacks in the recipient’s local area. These messages use subject lines implying that a fatal bomb attack has occurred near the recipient and contain a link to “breaking news.” Users who click on the link will be [...]
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Next World Cyber-security Contest
Next World Cyber-security Contest Launched by FIRST, CERT Coordination Center
Pittsburgh, PA, February, 25 2009 – The second international competition honoring best practices and advances in safeguarding the security of computer systems and networks was announced today by FIRST (the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams) and the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute CERT Coordination [...]
New Variant of Conficker/Downadup Worm Circulating
US-CERT is aware of public reports concerning a new variant of the Conficker/Downadup worm, named Conficker B++. This variant propagates itself via multiple methods, including exploitation of the previously patched vulnerability addressed in MS08-067, password guessing, and the infection of removable media. Most significantly, Conficker B++ implements a new backdoor with “auto-update” functionality, allowing machines [...]
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Active Exploitation of Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 Vulnerability
US-CERT is aware of a public report indicating active exploitation of a previously patched vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 7. This vulnerability was addressed in Microsoft Security Advisory MS09-002. Additional information is available in US-CERT Technical Cyber Security Alert TA09-041A.
US-CERT encourages users to apply the update or workarounds as specified in Microsoft Security Advisory MS09-002. [...]
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Malicious Code Spreading Via Valentine’s Day Spam
US-CERT is aware of public reports of malicious code circulating via spam email messages related to Valentine’s Day. These messages contain a link to a website that contains several images of hearts and instructs users to choose one image. If users click on one of the images, they will be prompted to download an executable [...]
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Microsoft Vista And Windows 7
Microsoft continues to have problems with their Vista opperating system. Consumers complain about the problems that plague the software. The next service package to help fix the problems continues to be delayed. No official release date has been set. Security and privacy issues should be of concern to anyone using a Microsoft based computer to [...]
The Safest Web Browser
The Safest Web Browser
According to Mozilla, maker of web browsers, their Firefox is the safest web browser.
Here is their claim:
Firefox keeps your personal info personal and your online interests away from the bad guys.
So How Do We Do It?
What makes Firefox different? Most importantly, we’re open. That means anyone around the world (and we have [...]
Google’s New Web Browser Let’s You Go Incognito
Web browsing has become safer with Chrome, Google.com ’s browser. You can download it for free. It’s lightweight on your computer resources but heavy duty on surfing the web… pages load faster.
There is also an awesome feature that is the antithesis of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) web browser — secure browsing. Whereas Microsoft tries to [...]
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Recovering from a Trojan Horse or Virus
by the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team
www.us-cert.gov
Michael D. Durkota and Will Dormann It can happen to anyone. Considering the vast number of viruses and Trojan horses traversing the Internet at any given moment, it’s amazing it doesn’t happen to everyone. Hindsight may dictate that you could have done a better job of protecting yourself, [...]
