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  • Supreme court, freedom of speech and internet filtering

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    It was bound to happen. It didn’t work in Third World countries, attempts to do it in Western civilization failed one by one, and now it is proven again that you can’t really prohibit people by law from viewing certain content on the internet. What I’m talking about is this: The Supreme Court rejected child…

  • Conficker continues its rounds. Hits 9 million mark

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    It is funny how security works, isn’t it? When you think you got rid of the old-school (aka “stupid”) threats, reality hits you right back. Confiker/Downadup is a simple worm;  it exploits a Microsoft Windows vulnerability, that can only be utilized over a local network as it uses the SMB protocol, and uses an initial…

  • Social networking strikes again

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    A lot of write-ups have been covering this, so here are a few from InformationWeek, Dancho, SCMagazine and McAfee. Besides saying the ever satisfying “told you so”, nothing much to add here. More bogus profiles enticing users to connect to them, look at the content, and catch the same old nastiness – only packaged in…

  • Hosting provider crackdown?

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    Recently, there has been a lot of focus from the security research community on a hosting provider named McColo corporation (out of San Jose, CA). Reports on spam, phishing and connections to Malweb distribution amongst other have been accumulating (including our own malicious server analysis which has been spotted to be administered from a McColo…

  • Obama Leads in US Presidential Election Poll – the eCrime Way

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    And the leader according to the highly non-scientific research done using Google for a specific attack vector is: Barack Obama. Obama related sites have managed to get infected in such a way that they attack their visitors in 364 separate instances, while McCain is right behind with 230 instances. As always, and as we have…