I Am Security

Tag: press

  • Snooping into Palin emails? Watch out for the criminals snooping on you!

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    Following the recent news on how an anonymous group has managed to take over Sarah Palin’s Yahoo! email account; we have noticed some interesting happenings. As wikileaks which was the original posting location of the images taken from Palin’s yahoo inbox was unavailable for some time, copies of the wikileaks post started to appear on…

  • The impact of just 5 random letters…

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    We have been watching in amazement the impact our latest Malicious Page of the Month had on the industry and media. From coverage at Fox Business News, and the Washington Post, all the way to the more “traditional” security outlets such as SecurityFocus, SC Magazine and bloggers such as Dancho Danchev. The scary thing is the…

  • New Orkut worm takes us back in the wayback machine

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    I just love it how old news are recycled with a bit of a flare when they become relevant again. The latest Orkut worm reports talk about the technique that the worm writer has used to distribute its code. Quoting from the original article above: “It then downloads and executes a heavily obfuscated JavaScript”… looking…

  • Hitting the nail on the head

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    When we here at the MCRC are publishing our quarterly trends reports (http://www.finjan.com/Content.aspx?id=827), we are always facing the possibility that what we have been working on and predicting that would become the next issue with web security, isn’t really going to happen. Fortunately, we keep getting great feedback from the community since we started the…

  • The perils of running a security blog

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    This is a bit off-the-beaten-path of this blog’s usual in-depth hardcore security posts. I was going through some of the support related emails that have some relevance to the areas I’m responsible for, and found a pretty interesting correspondence between an avid blog reader (for privacy I’m not going to mention his/her name), and one…