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Security Alert: Resume Emails

Be aware of malicious emails with the subject line “Resume”. The body of the email usually looks like this: Hi, Please find the resume as a word attachment. Thanks Luke Gordon Attachment Converted: “c:\resume.zip”

Lock It When You Leave It

SANS Institute — Never leave your computer logged in when you walk away, not even for a minute. Make it a habit to log off your workstation whenever you get up. Remember to always leave your Windows computer by pressing the keyboard shortcut combination of the Windows logo key and the letter “L” on a [...]

ANTIVIRUS PRO 2009 Is Malware

I was just attacked by a virus (ANTIVIRUS PRO 2009), it masked itself as a antiviral program. I did not download it. It downloaded itself. I may have exposed myself with a few websites I viewed. I’m thinking that’s how i got it. I’ts some sort… of rouge. I didn’t wanna try and delete it [...]

Warning To Businesses Banking On-line

The Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center represents some of the largest banks in the United States of America. They have issued a report that recommends to commercial banking customers to take rigorous steps in securing online bank accounts. The report recommends to “carry out all online banking activity from a standalone, hardened, and [...]

Einstein 3: Homeland Security and NSA Vs. Privacy

Washington, DC, USA — The Department of Homeland Security is getting ready to release the long delayed Einstein 3. The Einstein 3 project is meant to detect and prevent attacks against government computers. Because the National Security Agency (NSA) is involved, there is concern among citizens and civil liberty organization over privacy. The following assessment [...]

Mac OS X and Java Alert

Mac OS X Includes Known Vulnerable Version of Java Current releases of Mac OS X (version 10.5.7 and version 10.4.11 with security update 2009-002) include a version of Java Runtime Environment (JRE) containing known security vulnerabilities. US-CERT is aware of publicly available exploit code for one of these vulnerabilities. This vulnerability may allow untrusted applets [...]