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Comments on Digg.com are used for malware distribution

Cyber-criminals, using the stolen data, place comments on Digg.com with links to video of celebrities. At viewing attempt the free advertising product with the subsequent infection of the computer and the offer of paid “treatment” is loaded.

Experts of anti-virus laboratory PandaLabs have faced the next example of use of services Web 2.0 for distribution of malware:  a wide-popular public news resource Digg.com (www.digg.com) has been used by cyber-criminals for distribution of a free advertising product with the information on a video game. Criminals left comments on pages with news  at which there were references to video with known people. Examples of such comments include following phrases:

Christian Bale freak out dubbed with video!

Jessica Simpson Hotel Sex Tape Megan Fox naked

NEW SEX TAPE

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ThePirateBay administrators will appear before the court

Four administratos of the famous torrent tracker The Pirate Bay will appear on February, 16th before the
Swedish court in Stockholm, writes Cnet News. Charge considers that they helped millions Internet users to illegally download films, music and computer games. Defendant, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi and to Carl Lundstrom, threatens till two years of prison and the penalty in 1,2 million crones. A day before court representatives The Pirate Bay have held press conference, writes Wired. They have declared that are completely innocent.
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Microsoft offers $250,000 reward for Conficker arrest and conviction

Today, Microsoft Corp. announced a partnership with technology industry leaders and academia to implement a coordinated, global response to the Conficker (aka Downadup) worm. Together with security researchers, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and operators within the Domain Name System, Microsoft coordinated a response designed to disable domains targeted by Conficker. Microsoft also announced a $250,000 reward for information that results in the arrest and conviction of those responsible for illegally launching the Conficker malicious code on the Internet.

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Total check of USA cybersecurity

US president Barak Obama has made the instruction to spend wide area studying of systems of computer security of the country.

Two-month check should answer on a question as affairs with protection against hackers, the malicious software and foreign secret services are. State counteraction to electronic attacks was one of pre-election pledges of 44th president. George Bush’s administration was criticised often by independent auditors for insufficient attention to this problem, therefore it should get to the list of urgent matters of the successor automatically.

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St. Valentine’s Day congratulations spam

Websense Security Labs experts have detected mass dispatches of messages in which malefactors suggest users to visit a certain web site and to see a card with congratulations by a St. Valentine’s Day. If the user agrees to pass the link, the image of two puppies and heart will be shown. After that the potential victim is recommended to download a certain file and to prepare a gift to a sweetheart. Actually the file appears malware program Waledac: having got on the computer, the worm collects e-mail addresses and dispatches on them the copies.

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OpenDNS against Conficker

OpenDNS service has learned to resist the attempts of computers infected by the Conficker worm to contact with a possible controlling domain. Thus, the use of OpenDNS will protect from evil actions of the worm, when (and if) the authors try to take advantage of built a potential super-botnet.

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Windows 7 UAC vulnerability

The release of Windows Vista has brought the new possibility intended for security of the computer – the User Account Control (UAC). However so useful possibility became at first the excellent reason of criticism to the operating system that has been linked to huge number of the warning diagnostics, which many users have considered irritating and simply disabled.

However the reduced number of messages from UAC in Windows 7 as it has appeared, still is not an advantage at all. In Windows 7 Microsoft has decided to change the policy and already in beta-versions of the future operating system began to offer less irritating UAC. Now it can receive an absolutely return estimation since blogger Long Zheng (Long Zheng), the leader of blog Start Something, has in details described the concept of attack against new UAC in Windows 7.
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Microsoft has prepared a new portion of patches

As it is informed in the prior notification, all four security bulletins with the description of “holes” in browser Internet Explorer, a control system of databases SQL Server, post server Exchange and package Visio which is a part of a set of office applications Microsoft Office will be published.

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Mp3-player with military secrects has been sold in the USA

In the United States it has been sold a second-hand МР3-player with a lot of secret military information inside.

As it is informed, the player has come into the hands of the inhabitant of New Zealand Chris Ogle which has purchased it for 18 dollars in one of second-hand shops in Oklahoma. 29-year-old buyer was very surprised, when, after connecting the device to the computer, he has detected about 60 files with the information which has been not intended for extraneous eyes. In documents phones and numbers of social insurance of the American soldiers who were in Afghanistan and Iraq, engineering lists on military bases and even the short description of one of military missions have been specified.

The majority of the files written in memory of the player is dated 2005. Nevertheless some personal data of soldiers is actual till now, therefore, can pose threat of a personal security of military men.

Why all it has not been erased before player sale — a riddle. Chris says that under the first requirement is ready to transfer a player to the authorities for investigation carrying out.

Let’s notice that it’s not the first time when the confidential data gets thus to casual people. In 2006 the American special services have gained a stolen flesh-charm with the information on operations in Afghanistan.

Distribution of Conficker worm decreases

By estimations of the anti-virus companies, the quantity of infections with the sensational net worm actively travelling on the Internet and corporate networks of last 2-3 weeks, has reached 10 million computers. However the last some days speed of distribution of this harmful code has considerably decreased. We will remind that various variants of worm Conficker (Downadup) extend, maintaining vulnerability MS08-067 in Windows operating systems.
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