by Joseph Forbes | Mar 14, 2013 | DATA, INTERNET, KnowledgeBase (KB), NERD NEWS, PRIVACY, SECURITY, Technicals
Google wants to aid webmasters in identifying site hacks and recovering from them Google has launched a site for webmasters whose sites have been hacked, something that the company says happens thousands of times every day. The new site features articles and videos...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 13, 2013 | HACKING, KnowledgeBase (KB), Malware Reports, Microsoft's Malware Protection Center, SECURITY
Wecykler is a family of worms, that shares some similarities with the Worm:Win32/Autorun family, in that it takes advantage of removable drives attached to an infected system in order to propagate to other machines. They target users’ familiarity with the...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 13, 2013 | HACKING, INTERNET, NERD NEWS, SECURITY
from the subtext:-or-else dept. For the first time, the United States has mentioned the People’s Republic of China in relation to cyber crime, officially acknowledging what has been long suspected by private security experts and the U.S. business community. The...
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by Joseph Forbes | Mar 13, 2013 | HACKING, KnowledgeBase (KB), Malware Reports, SECURITY
Have you ever wondered which exploit kits are the most prevalent? We have been tracking several exploit kits that we have identified these past few months and it’s interesting to see which gets the biggest chunk of the pie: 56% of the coverage is owned by only...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 12, 2013 | HACKING, Malware Reports, SECURITY
A number of HP LaserJet printers can be accessed through the network and unencrypted data can be read from them without authentication. The US-CERT has issued an advisory that warns users of these printers and is calling on them to update the printer’s firmware...
