Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● September 1, 2011
You probably don’t remember Koobface, but it emerged a few years ago as one of the most prolific worms on Facebook and MySpace. Well apparently it’s back. Just to remind you, Koobface (a play on Facebook) was a very powerful and pervasive worm designed to steal Facebook users’ logins and passwords. It then hijacked those [...]
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● January 27, 2011
Can you believe that it’s been exactly 25 years to the month that the world woke up to the first computer virus? My, how time flies. Happy times, at least for many of the authors of this malware. And of course for the now multi-billion dollar anti-virus industry this one event spawned. Even the birth [...]
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Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● September 2, 2010
A security expert just revealed that as many as five million web sites hosted by Network Solutions, one of the biggest registrars of domain names and host to millions of personal and small business web sites, may have been serving up drive-by downloads, possibly for years. A drive-by download is more accurately a “surf-by” download, [...]
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● July 27, 2010
At last, it’s here. The list you’ve been waiting so long for (at least I have). A major network security company has just released what it regards as the Top 10 risks you can expect if you’re a fan of social networking. Now I have to caution you, so you’re not too disappointed, that the [...]
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Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● October 5, 2009
One thing I’ve learned from years in security is that if it makes financial sense for hackers to exploit something, eventually they will. And social networking is not immune. According to security firm Panda, since 2008 a malicious virus called Koobface has attacked and hijacked the pages of thousands of Facebook and Twitter users, and [...]
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