Spyware

The Dutch telecommunications watchdog has fined the makers of a group of malicious software programs known collectively as "DollarRevenue".

clipped from www.darkreading.com Turn In a Software Pirate, Collect $500 Under the plan offered by the Software & Information Industry Association, anyone who unwittingly buys fake software from an online fraudster can receive up to $500 if they report the scam.

clipped from www.darkreading.com ‘Super Spam Me’ DECEMBER 20, 2007 |?McAfee is soliciting volunteers from around the globe for a study on spam email: All the participants have to do is respond to every piece of spam email they receive during a 30-day period.

Malware is replacing Google text ads with ads from another source, according to BitDefender. The virus, Trojan.Qhost.WU, is using the host's file to redirect the initial query sent to the Google Adsense servers to a malicious host, according to an advisory issued by the firm.

The Washington Post's Rob Pegoraro discussed his recent reviews and answers your personal tech questions.

Online content creation is an increasingly popular pastime among American teens, but there are sharp differences in the media preferred by boys and girls, according to a new report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project. A full 64 percent of online teenagers ages 12 to 17 engage in at least one type of content creation today, up from 57 percent of online teens in 2004, according to the ...

Worm.Win32.Netsky is a parasite that has returned recently in the popup warning messages claiming that your system has been hijacked and infected with this dangerous Worm infection. This fake alert is generated by a Trojan program that creeps into the system bundled with Active-X plug-ins related to fake video codecs. Once executed, this Trojan will bombard the user with irritating pop-ups in the system tray, warning messages and may even slow down tour system performance. If you click on any of these notifications, you will be directed to the website where the rogue anti-spyware applications will be promoted and you will be tricked into buying one of them.

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The year 2007 may go down in the annals of Internet crime as the year when organized cyber criminals finally got serious about their marketing strategies -- crafting cyber schemes that were significantly more sophisticated and stealthy.

clipped from www.securityteacher.com Password integrity Use strong passwords and pass-phrases for your login accounts, WiFi encryption and other identifiable entries. Simple passwords can be cracked in a matter of days, if not hours by brute-force password generators. Avoid using the same passwords for different accounts, because if one password gets into the wrong hands it will automatically unlock access to the other accounts that share it.