Technologizer

Malware Inc.: The Criminals Behind the Attacks

Monday, November 2, 2009

Malware makers–the criminals responsible for viruses and worms –have become increasingly organized and sophisticated, according to a Microsoft security report that was released today. Gamers, the gullible, USB drive users, and people who don’t patch their PCs are their biggest targets. Cybercriminals are organized like corporations, and follow regular software release cycles, said Jeff Williams, [...]

All Your Apple Belong To Us: First Mac Botnet?

Thursday, April 16, 2009

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Ryan Naraine at ZDNet has a shocker: Symantec has said it has evidence of the first known Botnet comprised of Mac computers that are attempting to launch denial-of-service attacks. The root cause appears to be a cracked copies of iWork ‘09 and Adobe Photoshop CS4 that also includes an additional payload with the Botnet code. These [...]

Malware is Messing with Facebook Users

Friday, February 27, 2009

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A rogue application has struck Facebook for the second time within a week, reports Trend Micro’s Malware Blog. The malware uses social engineering to hoodwink Facebook users into installing it, and then proceeds to harvest their personal information. But don’t panic yet – it’s not that easy to do. When a user installs the application, it [...]

Parking Ticket Scam Leads to Malware

Thursday, February 5, 2009

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Give these hackers some credit: this malware scam takes an offline world incovenience — the parking ticket — and turns it into a way to dupe users into installing malware on their computers. These fake parking tickets have begun appearing on cars around Grand Forks, North Dakota, which directed users to a website. The yellow flier reads: PARKING [...]

Fox News: Pentagon Target of Cyber Attack

Friday, November 21, 2008

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Fox News is reporting that the Pentagon was the target of a cyber attack so severe that it has now banned the use of all external memory devices, such as flash drives and the like. Apparently, some type of worm or virus has been unleashed on the agency’s computer network, and is quickly spreading throughout [...]

Die, Scareware, Die! Microsoft Takes on Windows Scammers

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

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Maybe I’ve been living under a rock or something, but I never heard the term scareware until today. But without knowing the name, I’ve sure seen a lot of the stuff over the years–utilities that use questionable tactics such as fake error messages to lead you think you’ve got a computer problem in order to [...]