Here’s an example of how social engineering can be more important than technical sophistication. It’s an email with a credible from address, credible header, credible subject line, credible contents: From: john@flexiprint.co.uk Subject: Photo Approval Needed Hello, Your photograph was forwarded to us as part of an article we are publishing for our May edition of… Read More »
The Register, quoting AP, says that an Estonian man suspected of plundering millions from hundreds of online bank accounts accounts across Europe was arrested last week. AP reports that the unnamed 24 year-old allegedly used a sophisticated Trojan in order to monitor the keystrokes on victims’ PCs and extract confidential banking passwords that allowed him… Read More »
PC Tools has released a new version of Spyware Doctor, 3.2, with what it calls “groundbreaking Keylogger Guard technology that protects users from identity thieves”. A press release says: Existing solutions can allow keylogger threats to run undetected for weeks or months by which time the damage is already done. Spyware Doctor 3.2’s Keylogger Guard detects… Read More »
Vmyths, the web site that takes a skeptical look a the anti-virus industry, is for sale on eBay: item 5762562547 at a starting bid of $200,000. (Or you can buy the whole thing for $280,000: Vmyths.com is the leading independent voice in the computer security and computer virus industry. The site is owned by an… Read More »
What does it take to create a chain of infection? Perhaps just one credible link. Last night I came back to my computer to see a an IM message from Josh Rowe, an Australian contact who is active in the anti-spam world Down Under. You couldn’t find a more diligent, experienced and responsible person, so… Read More »