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"Most men believe that they know more about online security than women, but new research suggests that both sexes are equally vulnerable to malware and other threats..
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"With more people finally switching to Windows Vista, the operating system is fast becoming a target for security researchers and–surprise!–hackers.
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"The very first computer virus did not happen on a Windows machine, or a Mac or an Apple II. The first virus did not travel via the Internet or in an email or in a floppy disk. The first virus was not on a minicomputer, nor was it on a mainframe. That’s because the first computer virus didn’t exist on any computer hardware or software of any kind. It was in a work of fiction.
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"Hackers are currently littering Google’s Blogger site with phony blogs — some containing malware, pornographic images, or pure spam. "Google Blogger is being used as a malware delivery mechanism," says Ken Steinberg, CTO and president of Savant Protection, who discovered the attack while working on his own blog this morning. The attackers apparently are automatically generating the blogs with scripts. The blogs come with nonsensical names and content that’s obviously been generated using English-compliant engines and keyword focuses, he says.
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"Viruses, worms and Trojans have probably done as much for Apple’s ascendancy in recent years as any single advertising campaign. Talk to any recent defector from Windows and invariably the security issue will be among the reasons for making the switch. Compared to the patch-obligatory PC experience, a war zone of zero-day exploits and encrypted Trojans, the Mac world is a walk in the park, it seems.
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"Mozilla’s security chief Window Snyder has confirmed a proof of concept information leak flaw in Firefox–even fully patched versions. Snyder confirmed the issue in a blog post. The proof of concept vulnerability was highlighted by researcher Gerry Eisenhaur on Jan. 19. In a nutshell, Firefox leaks information that can allow an attacker to load any javascript file on a machine.
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"Experts are warning of a new worm spreading across mobile networks via Symbian phones. The worm is similar to the CommWarrior mobile virus, and initially fooled researchers into believing that it was not new. However, it is actually a new class of mobile virus which spreads via file extensions named ‘beauty.jpg’, ’sex.mp3′ and ‘love.rm’.
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"A recurrent group of Moroccan fraudsters calling themselves Mr-Brain has launched a website dedicated to offering easy-to-use phishing site code, email templates and other hacking tools. The website offers phishing kits for many of the most common targets, such as Bank of America, eBay, PayPal and HSBC.
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"We recently saw instances of actual attackers attempting a basic version of drive-by pharming. Given the simplicity of the attack and the potential widespread implications, we always felt that it would simply be a matter of time before it happened. The building blocks have been out there for some time and anyone with sufficient familiarity could easily put them together. I’ve said before and I’d like to reiterate that the technical details of the attack are not nearly as noteworthy as the potential widespread implications.
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"The number of legitimate Web sites that have been hacked and seeded with code that tries to infect the visitor’s PC with malware now exceeds the number of sites specifically created by cyber criminals, according to a report released today.
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