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Threat Update
Many malicious URLs invisible to antivirus software
from PC Advisor | Thursday, March 04, 2010
The web security company pitted three leading but unnamed antivirus products against 15,000 malicious URLs and found that only 39 percent were successfully blocked.
When they ran a second set of malicious URLs against a leading URL list the news was even worse. Only 444, or around three percent, were correctly identified.
Astoundingly, of the 15,000 URLs filtered, 5,273 were not only missed as being malicious, they were actually tagged as being legitimate.
Hacks and Website Attacks
‘Google’ Hackers Had Ability to Alter Source Code
from Wired.com by Kim Zetter | Thursday, March 04, 2010
Hackers who breached Google and other companies in January targeted source code management systems, security firm McAfee asserted Wednesday, manipulating a little-known trove of security flaws that would allow easy unauthorized access to the intellectual property it is meant to protect. The software management systems, widely used at businesses unaware that the holes exist, were exploited by the so-called Aurora hackers in a way that would have enabled them to siphon source code as well as modify it to make customers of the software vulnerable to attack — akin to making yourself a set of keys in advance for locks that are going to be sold far and wide.
Related News: Other Companies Than Google Faced Big Risks in Attack, McAfee Says
Microsoft Xbox Vulnerable to Hacking Attacks
from SPAMfighter | Thursday, March 04, 2010
Chris Boyd, security researcher at Sunbelt Software, states that phishing and hacking threats suffered by PC users for several years have come as a parcel with Microsoft Xbox console (interactive entertainment computer for video games) for online game lovers, as reported by The Register on February 21, 2010.
The researcher has also studied different tricks designed to help hackers to control privileged Xbox accounts through social engineering or target rivals with denial of service attacks. He has also indicated that the development of social engineering threats and malware for online game lovers has created a lot of problems which resemble to complexities faced by other parts of Net. But neither the industry nor gamers are serious enough to take these threats seriously.
Phishing Scams
Scammers Asking Donations for Haiti Earthquake Victims
from SPAMfighter | Thursday, March 04, 2010
As per the news reports, criminal groups have been exploiting Haiti earthquake to the maximum by collecting funds by means of fake online charities. The criminals have been distributing several spam e-mails, some of which use authentic charities logos.
UNICEF recently issued an alert that hackers are exploiting their name for bogus donation requests, asserting that the money will be used for the Haiti earthquake relief.
U.S. Census Bureau warning of phishing scams
from SunbeltBlog | Thursday, March 04, 2010
The U.S. Census Bureau is warning of phishing and other scams that are using the 2010 Census as bait. Here is the warning from the bureau’s web site:
If you are contacted for any of the following reasons — Do Not Participate. It is NOT the U.S. Census Bureau.
Gotcha!
eBay scammer gets four years
from theregister.co.uk | Thursday, March 04, 2010
The leader of a UK-based gang who made millions selling counterfeit luxury golf kit and other knock-off goods through auction site eBay has been jailed for four years.
Gary Bellchambers and six others ran what is reckoned to be the biggest ever such scam between June 2003 and March 2008. Their fraud was eventually rumbled by a trading standards team at Havering Council, who were put on the trail of the fraudsters by pensioner Christine Manz.
