Scaring the bejesus out of a lot of security folk this weekend is a new kind of phishing attack that doesn’t require the victim to do anything but visit the usual websites he might visit anyway. It works like this: The bad guy uses a weakness in web servers running Internet Information Services 5.0 (IIS) and… Read More »
Seems like the big anti-virus boys are waking up to Korgo, the ‘phishing worm’ that F-Secure was warning about a few days ago. Symantec have just issued an advisory upgrading W32.Korgo.F, a new variant of the worm, from a Level 2 to a Level 3 threat. As Symantec says, W32.Korgo.F is a worm that attempts… Read More »
Welcome to the phishing worm. Korgo, a new worm that appeared last week, scans for random machines to infect and attack, using a vulnerability in Windows called the LSASS flaw which was discovered in April, according to Internet Week. Korgo, also known as Padobot, then sits on users’ computers waiting for instructions from home. Most such… Read More »
Opera has launched a new version of its browser, 7.50, for Windows, Mac, Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris. Opera 7.50 includes an e-mailer, newsreader, IRC-compatible chat client, contact database and support for RSS newsfeeds. It’s 3.5 megabytes in size (without Java). The interface has been revamped, with a new panel selector. Opera Mail has had a… Read More »
Just as phishing is getting noticed as a big problem, so a raft of solutions is appearing on the horizon. Here’s another: PassMarks. Here’s how it works. When a customer logs on to his banking website, a personalized image known only to the customer and the bank appears. If the customer doesn’t see the passmark… Read More »