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Security 101: Vulnerabilities, Part 1

01

Oct

2011

Welcome back to Security 101. The topic of today’s blog is vulnerabilities. In our frequent McAfee Labs Threat Advisories you see the term vulnerability in almost every item. “A vulnerability has been found…” or “A vulnerability in some versions of…” are commonplace. What is a vulnerability? A vulnerability is a program bug that under certain […]

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Botnet Shutdown Success Story: How Kaspersky Lab Disabled the Hlux/Kelihos Botnet

29

Sep

2011

Earlier this week, Microsoft released an announcement about the disruption of a dangerous botnet that was responsible for spam messages, theft of sensitive financial information, pump-and-dump stock scams and distributed denial-of-service attacks. Kaspersky Lab played a critical role in this botnet takedown initiative, leading the way to reverse-engineer the bot malware, crack the communication protocol […]

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Phone scam on the rise, some tips to avoid becoming victims.

04

Jul

2011

It has been observed that cyber criminals are targeting innocent elderly people at home. The scam works by criminals posing as computer security engineer who is actively calling people at home. The scammer indicates on phone that their computer is at risk from Internet threats and they are computer security personnel calling them to fix […]

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