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 | If there was one computer that was badly infected as this then you'll be horrified! It was about 7PM Australian time and I just got this Lenovo Laptop from this guys house in Queensland. The laptop looked like it belonged to a kid before because it looked like someone loves … Information Security cybersecurity microsoft windows-vista-7-8 |
| | Had anyone else problems with this add on. Seems to be almost impossible to get rid of it Information Security virus-malware |
 | The UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) has said that it has dealt a "major blow to dark web markets." In a [statement](http://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/news-listings/483-international-law-enforcement-deals-major-blow-to-dark-web-markets) issued on the 7th November the NCA says that a coordinated operation between law enforcement agencies in Europe and the US has "targeted market places for illegal commodities … Information Security cybersecurity windows-virus |
| | Although it took eBay itself an absolute age to disclose that a serious breach had taken place, and then [completely screwed up the process of ensuring users change their passwords](http://www.daniweb.com/hardware-and-software/microsoft-windows/viruses-spyware-and-other-nasties/news/479152/more-ebay-security-stupidity-exposed), this should come as no real surprise. Happygeeks' Law states: the larger the corporate, the longer it takes to admit … Information Security cybersecurity dataset microsoft-windows open-source storage windows-virus |
| | The news that JPMorgan Chase & Co, which is the largest of the US banks with a reach that extends to half of all American households, has been breached will surprise nobody. At least not in the sense that this is old news, with a disclosure of the event happening … Information Security cybersecurity engineering windows-virus |
| | Adobe Flash users have been under attack from cybercriminals again, this time courtesy of [a zero day exploit kit by the name of Angler](http://malware.dontneedcoffee.com/2015/01/unpatched-vulnerability-0day-in-flash.html). The exploit kit has been readily available on the dark market, and hits vulnerabilities to be found in Flash Players up to 15.0.0.223, as well as … Information Security adobe cybersecurity flash windows-virus  |
 | I got infected right after a Java and Adobe update on my Windows7 machine. folder \jnihmpibahpjjmcodbopcpdaelkbpjnc is most likely a random generated folder. Note on malware **PriceLess** (pops up as Chrome extension, highlights strings for ads): PriceLess is in folders: C:\Users\HomeGroupUser$\AppData\Local\Chromatic Browser\User Data\Default\Extensions\jnihmpibahpjjmcodbopcpdaelkbpjnc\5.2 C:\Users\HomeGroupUser$\AppData\Local\Comodo\Dragon\User Data\Default\Extensions\jnihmpibahpjjmcodbopcpdaelkbpjnc\5.2 C:\Users\HomeGroupUser$\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Extensions\jnihmpibahpjjmcodbopcpdaelkbpjnc\5.2 C:\Users\HomeGroupUser$\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome SxS\User Data\Default\Extensions\jnihmpibahpjjmcodbopcpdaelkbpjnc\5.2 … Information Security virus-malware web-browser windows-virus |
| | So, today is '[World Paper Free Day](http://www.aiim.org/events/paper-free-day)' apparently and I'm not sure whether it's appropriate to buy a card in the circumstances. Joking aside, what I am sure of is that such Hallmark days do provide an opportunity for press releases to be thrown in my general direction. And so … Information Security cybersecurity data-protection storage windows-virus |
| | At the start of the year, [DaniWeb reported](https://www.daniweb.com/internet-marketing/social-media-and-communities/news/470719/snapchat-plays-blame-game-after-hack) how Snapchat, the self-destruct photo messaging service, had been hacked and information regarding 4.5 million users had been stolen. Fast forward to now, and Snapchat is again in the mire: nude images have started to appear on 4chan which have been stolen … Information Security app-store cybersecurity social-media window-manager windows-virus  |
| | Some interesting [research](http://www.proofpoint.com/threatinsight/posts/phishing-in-europe.php) from security outfit Proofpoint was published this morning which reveals that unsolicited email heading towards users in the UK is three times more likely to contain malicious URLs than that destined for users in the United States, or Germany, or France for that matter. It's not, as … Information Security abuse cybersecurity email virus-malware windows-virus |
| | So, a bunch of US financial institutes have been hacked. Nothing new there, if we are being brutally honest. The newsworthyness in this particular case comes courtesy of one of those organisations apparently being none other than JP Morgan Chase. USA Today reported yesterday that a federal law enforcement official … Information Security cybersecurity politics windows-virus |
| | SuperValu has confirmed that is has, indeed, suffered a data breach. The supermarket company [stated](http://www.supervalu.com/security.html) that what it calls a "criminal intrusion into the portion of its computer network that processes payment card transactions for some of its retail food stores, including some of its associated stand-alone liquor stores" may … Information Security cybersecurity windows-virus |
| | It seems like forever, but actually it was only the end of last year that we were [writing about CryptoLocker](http://www.daniweb.com/hardware-and-software/microsoft-windows/viruses-spyware-and-other-nasties/news/470427/cryptolocker-250k-infections-in-100-days-nets-300000-or-does-it) which had pretty much redefined the ransomware landscape. Now this particular threat market is morphing again with the discovery of onion crypto ransomware. Also known as Critroni, and CTB-Locker for … Information Security cybersecurity microsoft-windows operating-system windows-virus |
| | Following on from the news that an eBay password database has been compromised, and universal advice from security experts that users should now change their passwords, one thing has been loud clear: the total lack of that password change requirement from eBay. Sign into eBay and there is nothing to … Information Security cybersecurity windows-virus |
| | According to a [report](http://www.fireeye.com/resources/pdfs/fireeye-operation-ke3chang.pdf) from researchers at US security outfit FireEye, a number of computers belonging to diplomats attending the G20 summit in Russia three months ago, including at least five European foreign ministries, were successfully targeted by Chinese hackers. FireEye researchers had monitored a server, one of 23, used … Information Security abuse cybersecurity politics virus-malware windows-virus |
| | Small groups of what are best described as cyber-mercenaries, willing and able to perform surgically precise hit and run hacking operations, are offering their services for hire out of China, Japan and South Korea. That's the conclusion of security researchers at [Kaspersky Lab](http://www.kaspersky.co.uk/) who have been following the progress of … Information Security cybersecurity mac-software microsoft-access microsoft-windows os-x windows-virus  |
| | UK home shopping pioneers Lakeland have sent an email to all customers past and present to warn them that the retailers website has been hacked. What Managing Director Sam Rayner calls a "sophisticated and sustained attack" took place late on Friday 19th July. Measures were taken at the time to … Information Security cybersecurity encryption windows-virus |
| | Security researchers at ESET [have revealed](http://www.welivesecurity.com/2013/05/16/targeted-threat-pakistan-india/) that a prolonged and highly targeted data stealing attack aimed at Pakistan, using fake PDF documents, appears to have originated in India. Using a code signing certificate (issued to what looks like a legitimate company 'Technical and Commercial Consulting Pvt. Ltd') to sign malicious … Information Security cybersecurity pdf windows-virus  |
| | It has been just over a month now since North Korea gloated about its successful nuclear weapon test. A test which prompted the imposition of new UN sanctions against Pyongyang, and if the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) which acts as a state mouthpiece for the Democratic People's Republic of … Information Security cybersecurity gaming windows-virus |
| | Zurich Insurance in the UK has just discovered the true cost of failing to secure confidential customer data properly, as the Financial Services Authority (FSA) fines the company a record £2.275m ($3.5m) for the data loss incident in 2008 which potentially put some 46,000 customers at risk. [attach]16866[/attach]The incident occurred … Information Security cybersecurity data-protection windows-virus |
| | Just as your average Joe starts to 'get' the importance of online security, and that means using anti-virus software, so the bad guys start exploiting this new found understanding by flooding the Internet with fake AV products. [attach]16913[/attach]Security researchers at [URL="http://www.sophos.com"]SophosLabs have today identified a major new fake anti-virus software … Information Security abuse cybersecurity virus-malware windows-virus |
| | With no actual Halloween-based security threats to report, it looks like the security vendors have had no choice but to start reporting scary stuff that might happen to your data instead. While I have no qualms about genuine warnings to 'be careful out there' this Halloween, a little reminder about … Information Security cybersecurity virus-malware windows-virus |
| | You might not have heard about Dirt Jumper yet, but the bad guys have. In fact, the high-risk and highly-effective DDoS toolkit is probably the most aggressive of the malware tools being employed by DDoS attackers at the moment, and the situation is set to get much worse very quickly … Information Security cybersecurity file-system virus-malware windows-virus |
| | China may be odds-on to top the medal table at the London 2012 Olympic Games, with less than a week to go, but according to a new report South Korea has the Chinese well and truly beaten as far as malware infected PCs are concerned. And unlike at the Olympic … Information Security cybersecurity virus-malware windows-virus |
| | New research shows that hackers are becoming increasingly lazy in their search for online exploits, with 98% of Remote File Inclusion and 88% of SQL injection attacks now being fully automated. It comes as no surprise whatsoever to DaniWeb administrators and moderators that your average cybercriminal is looking for the … Information Security cybersecurity shell-scripting windows-virus |
| | With the London 2012 Olympics due to open in just a few days time, the expected push by the bad guys has started. No, I don't mean the banning of wearing Pepsi T-Shirts in the Olympic Stadium as it might upset official sponsors Coke, or the fact that nobody is … Information Security cybersecurity social-media virus-malware windows-virus |
| | Apple, Facebook and Twitter have all been the target of hackers recently, and now Evernote has admitted to a potential breach that has forced it to reset the passwords of approximately 50 million registered users. Evernote, a kind of web scrapbook that enables you to take notes, save web pages … Information Security apple cybersecurity windows-virus |
| | Security vendor Malwarebytes has reported that a new variation of an old password stealing Trojan is out in the wild, but all is not as it may seem. Notably, this particular Trojan is signed with an apparently 'genuine' digital certificate that authenticates the file. Which rather prompts the question: "say … Information Security cybersecurity virus-malware windows-virus |
| | The 'World's Greatest Anti-Malware Software' is the spurious claim being made by Malwarebiter, which just so happens to sound an awful lot like Malwarebytes which could perhaps justifiably lay claim to that accolade. Take a look at this forum and you will see that Malwarebytes is a very valuable tool … Information Security abuse cybersecurity virus-malware windows-virus |
| | Background: I had one of my users bring in a home PC that they said has been "very slow" and has additional pop ups etc. They had installed a bunch of products to try and fix it (SpyBot, AVG etc) but could no longer get to the internet. So I … Information Security virus-malware windows-virus windows-vista |
| | The FBI took claims by new hacking group The WikiBoat that it was going to bring down the likes of Apple and Tesco last Friday at 4pm so seriously that it sent email warnings to those targeted. It's now Sunday morning, and the threatened DDoS attacks do not appear to … Information Security apple cybersecurity windows-virus |
| | A friend told me that hackers can only hack with telnet if you have telnet server enabled. Is it so or are there are means of hacking with telnet? Information Security windows-virus  |
| | Running Win XP Home, SP-3 and, without any warning, suddenly got "The file does not have a program associated with it for performing this action. Create an association in the folder options panel" error message with almost everything I try to light up from Desktop or the start tower. Not … Information Security windows-virus windows-xp |
| | Just of today my pc has suddenly been acting-up when I attempt to launch a number of exe files (applications) including the System Restore application. I receive this error message, "This file does not have a program associated with it for performing this action. Create an association in the Set … Information Security windows-virus |
| | Using newly registered domains with a very short lifespan to host malware websites is so last year. It would appear that these days such things are far more likely to be hosted on much older compromised web sites instead. Could this be down to a decline in domain tasting? The … Information Security abuse cybersecurity virus-malware web-server windows-virus |
| | I have a processing showing up in my task manager (iexplorer.exe) this is the first time I've seen it. It shows up when I start my computer and is taking up a very large amount of memory. Please tell me how to delete it? I ran hijackthis and it does … Information Security microsoft-office windows-virus  |
| | Have you ever thought about measuring the Internet in terms if malware per minute? Me neither, but someone has and it makes for uncomfortable reading if you are a Microsoft Windows user. [attach]17145[/attach]How fast is the Internet? It depends on the metric being used, of course, but one new report … Information Security cybersecurity microsoft virus-malware windows-virus |
 | [ATTACH=RIGHT]16752[/ATTACH]Intel announced on Thursday their agreement to purchase all of McAfee’s common stocks at $48 a share, a deal approximately worth $7.68 billion. McAfee will act as a wholly-owned subsidiary and report to Intel’s Software and Services Group. The endeavor marks what is sure to be a harmonious relationship for … Information Security cybersecurity virus-malware windows-virus  |
| | [ATTACH=right]16305[/ATTACH]No more shortcuts for hackers - that's the word from Microsoft, which plans to release a patch today that the company says will fix a security loophole. The issue is tied to the way the Windows OS handles shortcuts, or .lnk files, or as Microsoft explains it in the [URL="http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/2286198.mspx"]official … Information Security cybersecurity microsoft virus-malware windows-virus |
| | [attach=right]14422[/attach]File under oops. The website of The Telegraph newspaper has been defaced by hackers, apparently upset at a cult British television show and the newspaper itself for mocking their country. The 'Romania National Security' hacking group has claimed responsibility for the attack which hit a couple of third party services … Information Security cybersecurity sql windows-virus |
| | For the longest time there has been an implied, some might even say explicit, connection between computer infection and online pornography. According to one developer of AntiVirus software that connection has now been well and truly broken. Ondrej Vlcek, the CTO at [URL="http://www.avast.com"]AVAST Software[/URL], has announced the results of research … Information Security cybersecurity virus-malware windows-virus |
| | Symantec today launched a new hosted security as a service solution for small and medium sized business in the form of its '[URL="http://www.messagelabs.com/trials/hep"]Symantec Hosted Endpoint Protection[/URL]' offering. Delivering a simple and convenient cloud-based service covering Windows-based laptops, desktops and files servers, the solution aims to protect these endpoint systems using … Information Security cybersecurity web-browser windows-virus |
| | Hi, i need MD5 Hashes of all the virus can any one help me to finding them. Thanks Information Security windows-virus |
| | Hello all, Unfortunately I have this bad habit of turning to this magnificent community only with requests for helping hand on malware issues, but since that's the root nature of this part of the forum, I can just say that I'll be happy to drop by more frequently in future. … Information Security virus-malware windows-virus  |
| | Hi, Has anyone else experienced this? I have two firewalls, and antivirus so i am surprised to say the least! But not that surprised.. Can anyone help me work out what is going on? Cheers! Information Security windows-virus |
| | If it were not bad enough that the Iowa Division of Homeland Security official website was hacked, defaced and forced to close down temporarily it appears that another Iowa state government resource was also compromised a few weeks before. At the end of January the Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission … Information Security cybersecurity politics windows-virus |
 | Hi all, I was not sure if I should post here or software but... I have been running Microsoft Security Essentials now for about 1 month and I have had no problems up till this week. On two occasions only out of maybe 10 the program failed to start correctly … Information Security microsoft microsoft-access windows-virus |
| | I have a lot of passwords to get me onto various online sites and services, but I only need to remember one: the complex and hard to crack one that unlocks my encrypted password store. Not everyone is as paranoid as I am it seems, and many fall neatly into … Information Security cybersecurity windows-virus  |
| | Hello - need some help with my wife's computer. As soon as I boot up, a window which says "windows police pro" opens and does an apparent scan which says the computer is infected with various viruses. At that point, another window opens which doesn't give any option to exit … Information Security windows-virus |
| | According to a new report, published today by SANS, the overwhelming majority of all cyber-security risks can be laid at the door of just two areas: unpatched client-side software and vulnerable Internet facing web sites. The report was compiled by Rohit Dhamankar, Mike Dausin, Marc Eisenbarth and James King of … Information Security cybersecurity sql windows-virus |
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