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Another Round of Beladen? Or, The New "Go" Infection
On Wednesday July 22, 2009 we started seeing what looks to be a new round of beladen style website infections by cybercriminals. The reason we think they’re beladen style is that they appear to infect all the websites on shared … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-virus, beladen, cybercriminal, daobrains.info, deobfuscate, evading detection, globalsecurityscans.com, goscansome.com, goscansoon.com, goslimscan.com, gumblar, hacker, hackers, hosting provider, ina6co.com, infected webpage, infected website, infectious website, legitimate website, malicious code, malscript, malware, martuz, obfuscate, oigmlob, safetyshareonline.com, social engineering, sql injection, this site may harm your computer, trojan, undetectable, ventsol.info
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What Conficker was – and wasn't
Well, the big April 1st “dooms day” has come and gone. I’ll admit that even though we really didn’t think anything malicious was going to happen, we did add a Conficker scanner to The Box (our security appliance at www.ebasedsecurity.com) … Continue reading
Bomb Threat SPAM
Cybercriminals are using cleverly crafted SPAM messages to get you to click on a link that supposedly takes you to a Reuter’s video of bomb blasts in your area. I say cleverly crafted because the email will change based on … Continue reading
Social Networks & Social Engineering – Twitter Round 2
Continuing on from Round 1, I decided to take a step further and show you exactly how susceptible you are to a socially engineered infection through Twitter. Actually it’s more an attack through TinyURL.com, but since Twitter automatically converts URLs … Continue reading
Social Networks & Social Engineering – Twitter Round 1
My first review will be Twitter. I selected Twitter because it’s widely used and even easier for social engineering than some of the others. First a little background on Twitter. Many people categorize Twitter as a “micro” blog. This means … Continue reading
Posted in Social Networks
Tagged bit.ly, cyber attacks, cyber threats, cybercriminal, cybersecurity, evading detection, Facebook, get-shorty, hacker, hackers, infected webpage, infected website, infectious websites, malicious code, malware, snipurl, social engineering, tinyurl, Twitter
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Social Networks & Social Engineering – What a Pair
When we started this service we knew that one of our main goals was to “get the word out” on how websites have been in the line of fire for cybercriminals. We published a report, “How Cybercriminals Use Your Website … Continue reading
Posted in Social Networks
Tagged anti-virus, cyber attacks, cybercriminal, Facebook, fastpitch, Frank Kern, hacker, hackers, infected webpage, infected website, infectious websites, Jeff Walker, linkedin, malicious code, malware, myspace, security threats, social engineering, trojan, Twitter, Yanik Silver
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Malware and Internet Marketing Methods
Everyone knows that in order to be successful online you have to have visitors and buyers – makes sense right? In working toward getting this site more visitors and thus more buyers (clients) I’ve studied many of the methods that … Continue reading
Is the Internet worth it?
I know I’ll be accused of FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt) with this post but here goes. The whole world knows the Internet is used for building businesses. Some businesses rely solely on the Internet – they simply wouldn’t exist without … Continue reading
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Tagged Add new tag, anti-virus, CMS, computer security, cyber attacks, cyber threats, cybercriminals, cybersecurity, hacker, inauguration, infectious websites, malware, malware strategies, Obama, security threats, social engineering, trojan, virus, vulnerabilities, worm, www.businessweek.com, www.cbs.com, www.mlb.com
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