Archive for the 'Malicious Code' Category

Site Blocking

If you allow your kids to go online on their own, use the built-in the windows content blocker. It allows you to specify which sites you do not allow them to access blocking entry with a password or to totally prevent entry to a site by blocking it altogether. There are facilities where you list [...]

Read More..>>

Encryption Technology

This is the main feature of so-called secure web sites that encrypt data for all transactions. This is only necessary when sending information say as you pay your bill, you would notice the browser if you watch closely shift to some other mode which would become evident due to it working a bit slower than [...]

Read More..>>

Anti-Virus Protection

Most anti-virus programs of today come in packages that have different features. It may be the basic anti virus that intercepts or removes viruses before they spread. It may also come with email protection which scans all incoming and outgoing e-mail for viruses and other malignant programs preventing them from leaving your computer and infecting [...]

Read More..>>

Top 10 Internet Scams

The Fraud Center of the National Consumers League lists the top Internet scams of last year. Fake Check Scams make up 29% of all compaints, making it the most common scam. Second and third are General Merchandise and Auctions, or goods bought online that are misrepresented or not delivered. Although Nigerian Money Offers are only [...]

Read More..>>

The Human Factor

Still considered to be the largest security threat the world over, human nature defies explanation even with terabyte calculations to predict what people would do and how they would react to stimuli. The internet has suffered a lot mainly due to human error, failure of equipment that was already way past their prime, cables dug [...]

Read More..>>

Information – The Cyber-Criminal’s New Gold Standard

The internet has changed the lives of all people on earth, getting news out faster than traditional media, reaching out to for social functions and many more. It has also become the battle ground between the people who aim to gain information and those who own them, with the people who protect us from such [...]

Read More..>>

Light at the end of the battle against malicious site makers

The malicious scriptwriters out there are churning out what they can to make you click on their site, but according to the report below, a lot of you didn’t fall for their shenanigans:
The investigation, conducted by McAfee(R) SiteAdvisor(TM), studied the five major U.S. search engines (Google, Yahoo!, MSN, AOL, Ask) and found that the [...]

Read More..>>

Bots on to RPC Flaw

Image Source: judah.webanalyticsdemystified.com
Many anti virus companies are discovering a new set of exploitation on Microsofts MS08-067. The weakness in the security bulletin which is responsible for the behavior of RPCs or Remote Procedure Calls that are handled in Windows Server service has the workings of becoming a [...]

Read More..>>

Youtube is one of them now.

Image source: www.shusterman.com
Today is a bad day for us to browse the internet unarmed with knowledge. That is because hackers have found a new place to burn. YouTube. Some of the videos in Youtube contain links to malicious pages, or links that makes you download a malware, that allows hackers to save your keystrokes, [...]

Read More..>>

Information and Anonymity (Part 3)

To clean up your personal information after accessing the Internet through computers that are not your own, simply delete them. Go to the Tools menu of your Internet browser and select Options for Firefox or Internet Options for Internet Explorer. In IE, click Delete under Browsing History in the General Tab and individually delete temporary [...]

Read More..>>

Next Page »