Hacker Halted 2010

discounted/free iPad offer for secgeeks visitors/users from hacker halted

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Make plans now to attend the fifteenth annual Hacker Halted information security event - October 9-15 in Miami. The format includes a 4-day training Academy, followed by a 2-day conference on October 13-14 and 1-day of free Training (October 15) for all registrants. The two-day Conference features a comprehensive program presented in three tracks.

Register for the 2-day conference by August 31 and receive a FREE iPad onsite. No tricks or anything else to purchase.  read more »

How to Reset Windows Password with Windows Password Unlocker Standard?

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Today many PC users are easy to forget Windows passwords they set for their computers. Windows Password Unlocker Standard is designed to help users recover forgotten Windows administrator password and other user password by burning a bootable CD/DVD. If you’ve forgot Windows password, you try this Windows password recovery tool and follow the below instructions to recover your lost password.

Before starting, a bootable CD/DVD and a computer with CD drive are required. (Internal CD drive and external CD drive are both OK.)  read more »

Intel buys security software firm McAfee for $7.68B

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Intel announced today that it will acquire McAfee, maker of anti-virus and other security software, for $7.68 billion in cash, or $48 per share.

The per share price is 60 percent more than McAfee’s $29.93 closing price on Wednesday. McAfee shares jumped 58 percent after the deal was made public to $47.42 in pre-market trading, while Intel shares dipped 2.5 percent to $19.11, the AP reports.  read more »

Verizon DBIR challenge clue #4

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Hopefully, this should be the last clue: “If you’ve found the p(f+) in a fingerprint, you should be able to find the key.”  read more »

Malware hosted on Google Code project site

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Malicious hackers are using the Google Code repository to host Trojans horses, backdoors and password stealing keyloggers  read more »

Verizon DBIR challenge clue #4

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Hopefully, this should be the last clue: “If you’ve found the p(f+) in a fingerprint, you should be able to find the key.”  read more »

Verizon DBIR challenge clue #4

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Hopefully, this should be the last clue: “If you’ve found the p(f+) in a fingerprint, you should be able to find the key.”  read more »

Verizon DBIR challenge clue #4

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Hopefully, this should be the last clue: “If you’ve found the p(f+) in a fingerprint, you should be able to find the key.”  read more »

Google pays $10,000 to fix 10 high-risk Chrome flaws

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Google has shelled out more than $10,000 in bounties for the latest batch of high-risk security vulnerabilities in its Chrome browser.  read more »

Google pays $10,000 to fix 10 high-risk Chrome flaws

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Google has shelled out more than $10,000 in bounties for the latest batch of high-risk security vulnerabilities in its Chrome browser.  read more »

SecuritySuite malware removal

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The most popular trend in nowadays Internet scam is fake and rogue antispyware. Such antispyware try to convince users that they have plenty of infections to remove showing basically the same alerts and nag screens as regular software products combating viruses.  read more »

Alert : Fake Join my network on LinkedIn Emails

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It seems that spammers are now started using well known LinkedIn.com website to spam users. i got a message from a unknown user stating me to connect to his network on linkedin.But then when i carefully looked at the links i found that the links int he email does not points to the linkedin.com but they point to hxxp://lccvnvxx.info/

see the image below:
Fake LinkedIn

So if you have receive any such invitation to connect on linked,then double check it!!

Verizon DBIR challenge clue #3

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Here is the third clue for the Verizon Data Breach Incident Report (DBIR) cryptography challenge.  read more »

Malware Watch: Fake Patch Tuesday emails, fake MSRT tool, spamvertised Bredolab, Android mobile malware

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This week’s Malware Watch features three currently active malware campaigns - fake Patch Tuesday emails, BREDOLAB-malware serving emails, fake MSRT tool, and the the first (reported) SMS-trojan targeting Android users.  read more »

Malware Watch: Fake Patch Tuesday emails, fake MSRT tool, spamvertised Bredolab, Android mobile malware

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This week’s Malware Watch features three currently active malware campaigns - fake Patch Tuesday emails, BREDOLAB-malware serving emails, fake MSRT tool, and the the first (reported) SMS-trojan targeting Android users.  read more »

Apple zaps JailbreakMe.com bugs in record time

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The iOS 3.2.2 update corrects two flaws — a stack buffer overflow in FreeType’s handling of CFF opcodes, and a privilege escalation issue in IOSurface — that combined to expose Apple’s devices to takeover if a user simply surfs to a rigged Web site.  read more »

Popular brands impersonated in latest malware campaign

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Multiple vendors are reporting on a currently ongoing scareware and client-side exploits serving, spam campaign, impersonating Best Buy, Chase, Macy’s, Target.com and Evite.  read more »

Adobe readies emergency fix for critical PDF Reader security hole

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This update will resolve critical security issues in Adobe Reader 9.3.3 for Windows, Macintosh and UNIX, Adobe Acrobat 9.3.3 for Windows and Macintosh, and Adobe Reader 8.2.3 and Acrobat 8.2.3 for Windows and Macintosh.  read more »

New vulnerability disclosure deadline puts pressure on tardy software vendors

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TippingPoint’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) will enforce a six-month deadline for patches on all vulnerabilities bought from the security research community and reported to software vendors.  read more »

Google tops comparative review of malicious search results

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A two-month study by Barracuda Labs, reviewing more than 25,000 trending topics and 5.5 million search results, names Google as the most popular search engine used by malicious attackers relying on poisoned keywords.  read more »

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