A hacker has become a popular hero in the Baltics, and scourge to the authorities, by leaking information on the finances of banks and state-run firms to Latvian TV.…
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Here’s My theory about cybercrime “every one hour almost 25 million kids gets cyberbullied by strangers online.” so should this be a good theory for crime investigators use?
Dina Dvinov is the Conference Marketing Manager at the MIS Training Institute and in this interview discusses the InfoSec World Conference.
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You probably heard about the major earthquake in Chile happening last night. So have the malware writers engaged in search engine poisoning. Search Google for Chile Earthquake and you will find a number of malware site or sites like Qooglesearch.com on the first page. As regular charities start to use these keywords, the poisoned results may be pushed back a bit and show up under other related keywords.
As usual, let us know if you find any odd sites related to this. So far the only thing I am seeing is the fake AV / malware push via search engine poisoning.
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Johannes B. Ullrich, Ph.D.
SANS Technology Institute
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Hanover, Germany – A German IT magazine recommends PC users buy virus protection software and additional security components for their computers separately as opposed to in a suite. The decisive elements of PC internet security software are the firew…