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TWiT.tv – malware infects Leo Laporte’s website

15

Sep

2011

The website run by internet celebrity Leo Laporte, TWiT.tv, has been hit by a malware infection intended to infect visiting computers. Hackers have managed to inject a line of malicious code, in the form of an iFrame, at the very top of the TWiT website pointing to a webpage with a .cz.cc domain name. Although […]

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Microsoft has $250,000 for you – some strings attached

19

Jul

2011

Recently published on Microsoft’s Technet Blogs site, nestling between Haiku #154 and Bloom’s Taxonomy for Learning Objectives, you will find an unassumingly erudite, if lawyerly, posting. You probably want to read it. It could be worth US$250,000. To get all the money for yourself, there are, of course, conditions. You will need to rat out […]

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W32.Qakbot – Under The Surface

20

May

2011

W32.Qakbot is a worm that's been around since at least 2009. The worm initially infects users by exploiting vulnerabilities when a certain Web pages are visited. It subsequenly spreads through network shares and removable drives. It downloads additional files, steals information, and opens a back door on the compromised computer. During the past few months […]

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