Archive for July, 2009
Child pornography cybercrime needs to be stopped
Friday, July 31st, 2009Warning: The material on this page is graphic and not intended for children.
I watched an upsetting Oprah show today. And even though, it was almost impossible to watch I feel, it is important to bring awareness to this horrific cybercrime activity.
It’s estimated that more than 5 million pornographic pictures and videos of children are circulated [...]
12 things you can do to keep your child safer online
Friday, July 31st, 2009A quick checklist to get you started on the road to Internet safety.
1. Buy all the safety software you need and use good filtering tools.
Keep them current and use them unfailingly—as automatically as locking your door when you leave the house.
2. Discuss online safety with your family and friends.
Decide together how you will help [...]
One technique for producing the prefect password
Sunday, July 26th, 2009Everyone knows it’s bad to use the same password for different sites. People do it anyway because remembering different passwords is annoying. Remembering different difficult passwords is even more annoying.
Here is a foolproof technique for creating passwords, that are hard to crack and easy to remember. Plus, it takes just minutes to learn.
Step 1:
Start [...]
Carding, how individual hackers get paid for stealing information
Sunday, July 26th, 2009“There is a bustling trade in credit card information and personal details among hackers, phishers and other online criminals. This is called “carding”, and is generally how individual technical hackers get paid by organized crime for stealing information. Occasionally spreadsheets, databases, and other lists of personal information end up in public places on the web [...]
Anti-malware expert and CEO, Eugene Kaspersky, talks about cybercrime
Friday, July 17th, 2009During the 10th Annual Kaspersky Lab Virus Analyst Summit, I had the chance to sit down with CEO Eugene Kaspersky who offered his theory for stopping cybercrime. But first, I learned about his company, Kaspersky Lab which specializes in anti-malware technology.
It started out of passion; and now is quickly becoming a household name worldwide.
I found [...]
Koobface worms attacking social networks
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009As social networks become a mainstay, attacks targeting them continue to gain momentum.
The Koobface worms (over 575 new variants identified):
• Net-Worm.Win32.Koobface.a
• Net-Worm.Win32.Koobface.b
• Net-Worm.Win32.Koobface.c
• Etc
Targeted social networking websites (detected):
• Facebook
• MySpace
• Hi5
• Bebo
• Tagged
• Netlog
• Twitter
The Koobface worms come through social networks and transform victims’ machines into zombie computers to form botnets.
It spreads through the legitimate user’s account to their friends. Comments and messages sent by the [...]