Total Protect 2009

Total Protect 2009 is a fake antivirus that has the honour of being the first fake security program for 2009 on Damn Trojan.

That’s the only positive thing I have to say about Total Protect 2009 as it will bombard you with fake security alerts to trick you into buying the “full” version.

Unless you want 365 days of closing popups, remove Total Protect 2009 with these instructions.

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GOOGLE CALENDAR PHISHING SCAM SURFACES

Mark your diary

Fraudsters are using Google’s Calendar service as a means to develop a new strain of phishing scam

The ruse appears in the guise of a Google Calendar email notification. Would-be marks are told their accounts will be deleted unless they submit their Google username, password and date of birth.

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WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER FLAW DENIED

Security pantomime

Researchers reckon a security bug in Windows Media Player creates a means for hackers to inject hostile code onto vulnerable systems. However Microsoft has denied this, saying that the bug only creates a means to crash the software without posing a more damaging security risk

Fully patched Windows XP systems running either Windows Media Player 9 and 11 are each potentially vulnerable, according to tests by SecurityTracker. Other configurations may also be affected.

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DECT WIRELESS EAVESDROPPING MADE EASY

Security bypass attack

Conversations relayed through cordless household phones might be far easier to snoop upon than previously suspected

A new attack against phones based on DECT (Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunication) technology – demonstrated during the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin earlier this week – might be carried out cheaply using off-the-shelf kit, together with a little know-how. A modified $30 VoIP laptop card running on a Linux portable were used to demonstrate the attack, which relies on using specially outfitted equipment to impersonate legitimate wireless base stations.

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BOFFINS BUST WEB AUTHENTICATION WITH GAME CONSOLES

PS3 fleet spoofs SSL certs

Researchers have uncovered a weakness in the internet’s digital certificate system that allows them to forge counterfeit credentials needed to impersonate virtually any website that relies on the widely used security measure

Armed with more than 200 PlayStation 3 game consoles, the researchers are able to create a secure sockets layer certificate for any website of their choosing. The forged certificate causes all the major browsers to display a message indicating the website the user is visiting is legitimate because it’s been vetted by a trusted certificate authority using supposedly robust cryptographic measures.

Such attacks could make it easier for phishers to impersonate the sites of banks and other sensitive online services. The findings were presented Tuesday at the 25th annual Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin by researchers from Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in the Netherlands, EPFL in Switzerland, Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) in the Netherlands and independent labs in California.

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2008: A YEAR OF COWBOYS IN IT SECURITY

Security pundits are fond are characterising personalties in information security with reference to Westerns – hence hackers wear either a “black hat” or a “white hat” like their cowboy counterparts

More recently these analogies have been replaced by comparisons with the horror genre. Security firms (usually ill-advisedly) talk about “silver-bullet” security technologies and, of course, networks of compromised PCs are called zombie botnets. Call us old fashioned but we still prefer the Westerns and, in celebration of one of the few quintessential American art forms (alongside jazz), we’d like to take a look back at 2008 in information security through the lens of classic Westerns, with a few Vulture Central casting suggestions.

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CA issues no-questions asked Mozilla cert

Snafu highlights wider trust problem

Security researchers have uncovered weaknesses in low-assurance digital certificates that create a means for miscreants to mount more convincing man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks.…

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Samsung digital picture frame CD infected by virus

You’ve been iframed

Christmas gifts of Samsung Digital Picture frames could come with the unwelcome gift of malware, Amazon has warned.…

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Express Antivirus 2009

Express Antivirus 2009 is yet another fake antivirus that wants to con you out of your money.

Once it is on your computer, Express Antivirus 2009 will make your life miserable by bombarding you with fake security alerts to trick you into buying the “full” version.

Buying Express Antivirus 2009 wont give you an antivirus program but if you are lucky, the scammers may send you a worthless activation code.

Save yourself some money and remove Express Antivirus 2009 with these instructions.

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iSafe AntiVirus

The latest marketing name gimmick that everyone seems to be following is to take the name and shove an “i” in front of it. Scammers are using this tactic too which is why we have iSafe AntiVirus.

iSafe AntiVirus generates ifake security popups to trick you into iBuying the “Full” Version.

That $1000 sapphire you can buy for your iPhone does more than iSafe AntiVirus.

iSafe AntiVirus is also known to generate the following the following popup:

“There are 118 serious threats detected on your computer. Your privacy and peronal data could not be safe. Do you want to clean up your PC?
Yes, remove threats [or] No, continue unprotected”

If you have iSafe AntiVirus on your computer, just follow the free instructions to remove iSafe AntiVirus.

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