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Summarizing Zero Day’s Posts for January
on Feb 23, 2009 in ISO 27001 Latest Security News Information The following is a brief summary of all of my posts at ZDNet’s Zero Day for January. You can also go through previous summaries for December, November, October, September, August and July, as well as subscribe to my personal RSS feed or Zero Da...
Quality Assurance in a Managed Spamming Service
on Feb 23, 2009 in ISO 27001 Latest Security News Email Information Mail Spam Following previous coverage of the managed spam services offered by the Set-X mail system and a copycat variant of it, a newly introduced managed spam service is emphasizing on quality assurance through the use of a Google Search Appliance for storin...
Pharmaceutical Spammers Targeting LinkedIn
on Feb 23, 2009 in ISO 27001 Latest Security News Email Information Links Mail Spam Trace Following January’s malware campaign relying on bogus LinkedIn profiles, this time it’s pharmaceutical spammers’ turn to target the business-oriented social networking site. From a spammers/blackhat SEO-er’s perspective, this...
Community-driven Revenue Sharing Scheme for CAPTCHA Breaking
on Feb 23, 2009 in ISO 27001 Latest Security News Email Information Mail Spam What follows when a system that was originally created to be recognizable by humans only, gets undermined by low-waged humans or grassroots movements? Irony, with no chance of reincarnation. CAPTCHA is dead, humans killed it, not bots. A new market e...
Fake Codec Serving Domains from Digg.com’s Comment Spam Attack
on Feb 23, 2009 in ISO 27001 Latest Security News Information Links Scan Spam The following assessment details all the redirectors, fake codec serving domains, as well as related fake security software domains used in the Digg.com’ comment spam attack. The complete list of the domain redirectors used in the comment spa...
Crimeware in the Middle - Adrenalin
on Feb 23, 2009 in ISO 27001 Latest Security News Information Links Outlook Server Spam Zone What is Adrenalin? Adrenalin is an alternative to the Zeus crimeware kit that never actually managed to scale the way Zeus did. Following recently leaked copies of what is originally costing a hefty $3000, crimeware kit Adrenalin, it’s time to...