Spyware

The chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, Deborah Platt Majoras, plans to step down next month, the agency announced yesterday.

Pageforsafety.com, which promotes rogue anti-spyware program VirusHeat, is a malevolent browser hijacker designed for malicious purposes. Pageforsafety.com is often brought to your computer by various Trojans through browser security cracks. Upon execution, Pageforsafety.com will change your homepage to www.Pageforsafety.com and redirect it to various malicious websites that are producing and promoting malicious applications. Pageforsafety.com modifies registry to start at every Windows boot and by doing so, it will annoy you with numerous notifications of imaginary errors every time you turn on your computer. In addition, it can steal your personal and financial information to a remote hacker and slow down your system severely. Pageforsafety.com is also known to be extremely difficult to eliminate.

If you are going to do any kind of extended packet capture and analysis, it is best to capture it to a file, then use something like Ethereal or Snort to sort it out. It can be useful to show the MAC addresses , especially when you’re debugging network problems, because the MAC address is the definitive identification for a host. In practice, this field is mostly useless in IPv4, because routers can be configured to ignore the TOS field, and there is no way to enforce the sensible use of it. IPv6 promises to make it meaningful, but again the problem lies in the implementation, not the standard. When you look at what goes over the wires after the simple act of clicking on a URL, or checking email, it is amazing that it works at all. In these here spyware-infested times, one of the most useful things you can do with a packet sniffer is monitor the traffic coming off Windows PCs. More Spyware News

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WHITE PLAINS - A 22-year-old Peekskill man was sent to prison today for breaking into a neighbors' home, stealing their teenage daughter's panties and putting spyware on her computer.

Federal Trade Commission Chairwoman Deborah Platt Majoras will resign in late March, the agency said Thursday, to handle antitrust issues for Procter & Gamble Co.

clipped from wcbstv.com Teen Catches Alleged Mugger Via MySpace Flirting NEW YORK (CBS) ? A Brooklyn teenager became a cyber-sleuth when she used the MySpace Web site to track down a teen who mugged her on the street and stole her cell phone.

Nope, that would be hard to explain at the Neighborhood Watch meeting eh?
Seriously, its a great article. I recommend a read.

clipped from www.pcworld.com Virus Writers Going Local The program is nasty. It deletes pictures and movies from your hard drive and then it teases you: “Even though Mr. Kaneko was found guilty, you are still using Winny. I really hate such people,” taunts an animated woman on your screen.

Germany's highest court ruled that authorities may use computer spyware to secretly collect data from personal computers, but only under strict conditions. Basic rights aren't disposable, says DW's Daphne Antachopoulos.

Feb 28 -- St. Bernard Software Inc., a provider of web security appliances and hybrid secure content management solutions, announced Monday the launch of its Hybrid security solution, iPrism Instant Messaging Filter, an IM (instant messaging) filtering solution delivered on a Hybrid platform that integrates on-premises appliance and on-demand services.

Earlier this month, we noted that three large UK ISPs had agreed to a questionable deal with a startup named "Phorm." The ISPs would share all of your surfing data with Phorm who would then target advertisements to you based on your surfing patterns.