Archive for the ‘Security’ Category

Tomorrow April 1, is D-Day for Conficker, as whatever nasty payload it's packing is currently set to activate. What happens come midnight is a mystery: Will it turn the millions of infected computers into spam-sending zombie robots? Or will it start capturing everything you type -- passwords, credit card numbers, etc. -- and send that information back to its masters? Full story

Here are a news about trojan from Greasemonkey - a Firefox addon. It is identified by BitDefender. BitDefender has identified this new bit of holiday cheer as Trojan.PWS.ChromeInject.A" (the ChromeInject suffix refers to the Chrome component of Firefox). The trojan installs itself into Firefox's add-on directory, registers itself as Greasemonkey, and begins searching your hard drive for passwords, login details, your World of WarCraft account information, and your library card number. Full story

The total number of viruses will reach one million by year's end, according to security experts. Malware writers have been forced to create new types of viruses and exploits more regularly as businesses and individuals improve security practices, the experts said. Sophos chief technology officer Paul Ducklin said about 25 percent of unique malware has been created in the last six months of its 20 year history. Full story

This application is designed to assess the strength of password strings. The instantaneous visual feedback provides the user a means to improve the strength of their passwords, with a hard focus on breaking the typical bad habits of faulty password formulation. Since no official weighting system exists, we created our own formulas to assess the ... Full story

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1. Bug Me Not www.bugmenot.com 2. Google Cache 3. Be the Bot ... Full story