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iWork 2009 Trojan building a botnet

This week security researchers reported that pirated copies of iWork 2009 may contain a Trojan horse. Experts note that with Mac OS X threats, you have to be fooled into installing them. In this case, the chance to own iWork 2009 on the cheap is the potential draw. Most antivirus programs for the Mac are [...]

January 23, 2009  Tags: Apple, botnet, Defense in Depth, iWork, Jose Nazario, Robert Vamosi, Trajan horse  Posted in: DDoS, Defense in Depth, Jose Nazario, Mac OS X, P2P, Robert Vamosi, Trojan horse, botnets, conficker, denial of service, downadup, iWork  Comments Closed

Is the Downadup/Conficker worm building a new botnet?

There’s a new Internet worm spreading that may be comparable to Melissa, Sasser, and Blaster in terms of the number of machines infected.
The worm, Downadup (also known as Win32.Conficker.B or simply “Conficker”), exploits a specially crafted RPC request vulnerability found in unpatched versions of the Windows Server service. Microsoft issued a rare out-of-cycle patch, MS08-67, [...]

January 19, 2009   Posted in: MS08-067, Patch Tuesday, Robert Vamosi, botnet, conficker, downadup, firewall, malicious server, microsoft, worm  No Comments

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  When Gadgets Betray Us: The Dark Side of our Infatuation with New Technologies.

  Technology is evolving faster than we are. As our mobile phones, mp3 players, cars, and digital cameras become more and more complex, we understand less and less about how they actually work and what personal details these gadgets might reveal about us.

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