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Follow up on the top blacklisted sites

Earlier this week, I researched the top websites blacklisted by Google. I’ve looked at more of these websites over the last three days to better understand the most common attacks. The findings are quite disappointing. First, most infected websites are not cleaned up after three days. Webmasters should see a huge drop in their traffic, …

Rise of .in URLs in Spam

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Symantec has observed an increase in spam messages containing URLs using the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for India. This chart shows percentage of spam containing .in URLs:

While there were few daily spikes last year, clearly there has been more activity in the last two months.

Looking …

What the FBI didn’t tell us about the hotel malware threat

If you follow the field of computer security chances are that you saw the warning issued by the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) this week about using hotel internet connections.

Here’s the full text of the advisory, with some responses sprinkled throughout from yours truly:

Malware Installed on Travelers’ Laptops Through Software Updates on Hotel …

AVG CodeWord: Update – Apple Mac OS X

Apple provides users of its OS X operating system with a Software Update feature which is run at defined intervals, but which may be accessed manually at any time by visiting the (?) menu and selecting Software Update.

If you have set your Software Update preferences to run weekly then you see a list of …

Beware Adobe Software Upgrade Notification – malware attached!

Cybercriminals have widely spammed out a malware attack posing as upgrades for Adobe Acrobat Reader and Adobe X Suite Advanced.

The emails, which pretend to come from Adobe, have a ZIP file attached which contains a version of the Zeus Trojan horse, designed to steal banking information from compromised computers.

The risk is that less …