Archive for the ‘Security’ Category
After launching the latest version of the Microsoft’s own search engine called Bing, it was reported that Microsoft is now testing with its own employees the early version of the free anti-virus software that will soon be released as trial version or beta product. The product is called with its codename as “Morro”.
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Posted by SELaplana, 11 June 2009
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Yesterday, I was about to reply an email from a feed-email subscriber of this blog who was asking my advice regarding his blog. But I noticed that a message that I did not write was appended at the end part of email which goes:
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Posted by SELaplana, 7 June 2009
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Kamera World Philippine’s website is considered by Google as unsafe to browse or visit by telling the Google Search Engine’s users, “Babala- ang pagdalaw sa web site na ito ay maaaring makasama sa iyong computer!”
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Trojan Downloader is another variant of Trojan that downloads another program via the Internet and launches it on the victim machine without his knowledge or consent. Trojan Downloader is an encrypted Java Script within an HTML document. Trojan Downloader is 14147 bytes in size.
The Trojan Downloader activates when the infected page is opened using the [...]
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Posted by SELaplana, 15 June 2008
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The new version of the “malicious blackmailer’ Gpcode – Virus.Win32.Gpcode.ak is now on the wild. This new version of Gpcode encrypts files with extensions DOC, TXT, PDF, XLS, JPG, PNG, CPP, H etc. on hard drives using an RSA algorithm with a 1024-bit key. After encrypting files, the virus leaves a text file in the [...]
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Posted by SELaplana, 15 June 2008
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Yesterday, I received an email coming from my email address. Yes! I didn’t send email to my own but I received an email coming from me. Here’s the content of this email:
Best Way To Shop Online (note: these keywords is linked to an online store)
These are our lowest prices of the year — but they [...]
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Posted by SELaplana, 8 February 2008
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I receive an email from customerdata_service@yahoo.com asking me to verify my email account or else it will be terminated.
Dear Account User,
This Email is from Yahoo! Customer Care and we are sending it to every Yahoo! Email User Accounts Owner for safety. we are having congestions due to the anonymous registration of Yahoo! accounts so we [...]
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Posted by SELaplana, 21 January 2008
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The latest version of the PC Security Shield has already been released and they called it, “PC Security Shield 2008.”
What is PC Securit Shield 2008? To answer this question, I will copy what the manufacturer has said about their product.
Protect your data and privacy when you email, download music, bank or shop online. Security Shield [...]
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Posted by SELaplana, 26 December 2007
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Security
Hackademix reported that the United Nation’s official website was hacked and defaced. The hacker gained access to the said highly profiled website by simply using the technique called, “SQL injection”.
What is SQL injection?
According to the wikipedia, “SQL injection is a security vulnerability that occurs in the database layer of an application. Its source is the [...]
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Posted by SELaplana, 13 August 2007
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Is your notebook computer made by Toshiba? If so, this is to inform you that Toshiba recalls notebook battery that are made of lithium-ion that contain Sony cells. The manufacturer of this battery is the Sony Energy Devices Corp. of Japan. These batteries are said to be prone to overheat posing fire hazard to users. [...]
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Posted by SELaplana, 12 August 2007
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Security