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1000 days of Conficker

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Aug

2011

It has been 1,000 days since the Conficker worm first appeared on November 21, 2008. For the first two months after its initial appearance we received a trickle of reports through our ThreatSense.NET telemetry system. By January of 2009 that had become a flood, and then a deluge, as this “super worm” rose to meteoric […]

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Harvard Ethics youngster charged with massive online theft

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Jul

2011

A 24-year-old, described as a researcher at Harvard University’s Center for Ethics, has been arrested in Massachusetts, USA, on a raft of computer crime charges. The youngster, Aaron Swartz, has an interesting history, considering his age. He is a co-author of the RSS 1.0 specification, which was published just one month after his 14th birthday, […]

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Possible Phishing with DKIM

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Jun

2011

In a recently concluded discussion by the Domain Keys Identified Mail (DKIM) Working Group, a group created under the Internet Engineering Tasks Force (IETF), some of those involved have decided to disregard phishing-related threats common in today’s effective social engineering attacks. Rather than validating DKIM’s input and not relying upon specialized handling of DKIM results, […]

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