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News
On the same day that the Internet Crime Complaint Center issued an alert on the ongoing dangers of social networking fraud, a computer security researcher reported on a new Facebook threat in which scores of fake member profiles were attempting to push rogue anti-virus programs.
October 02, 2009
News
Users of popular blogging platform Twitter fell victim this past week to a scareware scam.
June 02, 2009
Brief
A new rogue anti-virus family has been added to the latest Malicious Software Removal Tool, released Tuesday by Microsoft as part of its monthly security update. The family, Win32/FakeSpypro, which goes by the name "Antivirus System PRO," blasts users with false warnings that their machines are infected,...
July 16, 2009
Brief
Malware authors are leveraging the eighth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks to try to infect internet users with rogue anti-virus software, according to researchers at Trend Micro. The cybercrooks are using search-engine optimization tactics so that when a curious user searches for news or information...
September 11, 2009
News
Victims have lost more than $150 million falling for rogue anti-virus schemes, the FBI says in a new warning.
December 14, 2009
News
An ongoing attack on Google users is sending victims to rogue AV software sites, according to researchers at eSoft's Threat Prevention Team.
September 22, 2009
News
A new Symantec report released Monday reveals a booming marketplace for criminals involved in installing bogus anti-virus products on victim computers.
October 19, 2009
Brief
Cybercriminals have launched a black hat search engine optimization (SEO) campaign exploiting the interest surrounding Apple's newly released tablet computer, iPad, according to researchers at web security vendor Websense. Searches for "apple tablet announcement" have been poisoned by attackers and now yield a malicious link within the top five search...
January 27, 2010
Brief
The latest Malicious Software Removal Tool, released Tuesday by Microsoft as part of its monthly security update, includes detection and elimination of the Internet Antivirus Pro family of rogue security programs. Like other scareware, Antivirus Pro tries to trick users into believing their computers are infested with malware,...
June 10, 2009
News
Attackers are leveraging users' desire to "go green" with a new round of fake anti-virus programs.
September 03, 2009
News
Researchers at Trusteer credit the trojan's morphing and rootkit capabilities with keeping it in the wild.
September 16, 2009
Brief
Security researchers at Arbor Networks have discovered a malicious application in Google's cloud-based application development environment, AppEngine, the security firm said in a blog post on Monday. The malicious application was acting as a command-and-control hub, used by cybercriminals to issue download instructions to zombie computers that make up a...
November 10, 2009
Product Review
The Network Security Inspector from Sunbelt Software is a network vulnerability scanner using a database of over 4,000 ranked multiplatform vulnerabilities.
May 01, 2009
Product Review
The Enterprise Random Password Manager from Lieberman Software is an extremely powerful tool which automatically discovers, updates, stores and allows secure recovery of every privileged account password throughout the enterprise.
August 01, 2009
News
Google searches for a number of security products and vendors -- including F-Secure, Norton, McAfee and Trend Micro -- have yielded advertisements with links to rogue products.
April 17, 2009
Brief
Google searches on terms related to its new collaboration and communications platform, Google Wave, are leading to a rogue anti-virus programs, according to the Websense Security Labs. Users seeking information on how to sign up for Wave, which currently is by invite-only, have been victimized by manipulated search...
September 30, 2009
Events
Winner: Fortify Software for Fortify 360
April 22, 2009
Product Review
Numara Patch Manager 9.1.1 is one of eight modules integrated into the Numara Asset Management Platform (AMP) solution.
February 01, 2010
Brief
Cybercriminals have launched a black hat search engine optimization (SEO) campaign to exploit the earthquake in Haiti, according to security researchers at anti-virus company Panda Security. Searches for "Haiti earthquake donate" or "Haiti earthquake donation" yield malicious links leading to rogue anti-virus products, Luis Corrons, lead researcher...
January 14, 2010
Product Review
The iPrism 100h is an inline web content management appliance using a combination of a URL database, user defined policies, and active anti-virus/malware scanning to provide blocking, filtering and reporting of access to websites and content.
March 01, 2009