by Joseph Forbes | Apr 14, 2013 | Cloud Apps, DATA, INTERNET, Internet Scam Notices, NERD NEWS, SECURITY, Technical Support
from the stop-or-i’ll-say-stop-again dept. Social Media Widget, a free plug-in for the WordPress blogging platform with more than a million downloads, was restored to WordPress’s official plugin directory on Thursday, days after it was found injecting...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 11, 2013 | DATA, INTERNET, Internet Scam Notices, Malware Reports, Microsoft Security Response Center, Microsoft's Malware Protection Center, SECURITY
We can safely say that since we encountered our first rogue, they’ve always commanded a presence in the malware ecosystem. That was, until recently we observed a decrease in rogue activity. That’s not to say they went away altogether – no, not at all – but...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 10, 2013 | DATA, HARDWARE, INTERNET, Internet Scam Notices, SECURITY, SOFTWARE, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
from the or-perhaps-a-catalog-of-people-doing-dangerous-things dept. This is an article about a search engine that is designed to look for devices on the net that are not really intended to be viewed and used by the general public. Devices include pool filters,...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 10, 2013 | Microsoft Security Response Center, SECURITY
Windows XP was originally released on August 24, 2001. Since that time, high-speed Internet connections and wireless networking have gone from being a rarity to the norm, and Internet usage has grown from 360 million to almost two-and-a-half billion users. Thanks to...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 9, 2013 | HACKING, HARDWARE, INTERNET, Internet Scam Notices, KnowledgeBase (KB), Malware Reports, SECURITY, TECHNOLOGY
Protip: don’t install an Android application package file if it’s named “Certificate.apk”. It’s not legit (obviously). Trojan:Android/Pincer.A is able to forward SMS messages and perform other actions based on commands it receives from...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 29, 2013 | DATA, INTERNET, Malware Reports, Microsoft's Malware Protection Center, SECURITY, Technical Support, Technicals
We recently came across the file 1ac150ddb964722b6b7c96808763b3e4d0472daf during the course of regular research. We detect this file as Trojan:Win32/Preflayer.A. The file had been distributed with the file name FlashPlayer.exe and not surprisingly, when executed, it...
