Security

Fake Facebook Password Notice

Published April 12, 2010 | By InetDaemon

Received an e-mail today from hackers trying to trick me into opening a file attached to the e-mail. The file was, of course, malware. Below is a copy of the fake Facebook e-mail. These e-mails have been circulating since January 2010.

Full Story: Fake Facebook Password Notice

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Posted in Facebook, Malware Alerts, Technology

Top 10 Internet Security Suites of 2010

Published April 10, 2010 | By InetDaemon

Even if you are a computer expert, you need to protect your computer against viruses, worms and other malware to protect your data and financial security. Anti-virus isn’t enough any more, you need what is called an Internet Security Suite to even the odds and protect yourself and your computer. PC World did a bit more scientific review this year, testing performance instead of just comparing features.

Symantec, Kaspersky, AVG, PC Tools and Bit Defender top out the PC World list.

Symantec’s Norton Internet Security Suite the only suite to achieve a perfect score in detecting, disabling and removing malware based solely on behavioral detection. This makes Symantec your best choice in protecting your system from 0-day threats. McAfee scored an overall distant 7th.

The “Top Ten” List at PC World

http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/collection/3247/2010_suites.html

Posted in Endpoint Security, Tweet

Mac Gets Hacked, Again

Published March 29, 2010 | By InetDaemon

Third year in a row Charlie Miller has walked away with the prize at Pwn2Own. Apple is busy patching. As I keep telling my Mac-zealot friends, Mac’s can and do get hacked every day. There is no such thing as a system that is ‘inherently secure’ or ‘inherently immune’ to attack.

Posted in Computers, Malware Alerts, Technology

Yet Another Trojan

Published February 20, 2010 | By InetDaemon

Received a couple of e-mails with the following text:

FROM:   shipping@dhl.com
SUBJECT:  DHL Office. You need to get a parcel NR.xxxx

Dear customer!

The courier service was not able to deliver your parcel at your address.
Cause: Mistake in address
You may pickup the parcel at our post office personally.
The delivery advice is attached to this e-mail.
Print this label to get this package at our post office.
Please do not reply to this e-mail, it is an unmonitored mailbox!
Thank you,
DHL Services.

DHL will usually leave the package at your doorstep unless special instructions were provided or the package is insured (valuable).
If they can’t deliver, they leave a slip of paper at your door, as does UPS, FedEx and the postal service.
If someone flubbed the mailing address, and DHL can’t make sense of it, DHL will send it back to the point of origin (where it was mailed from).
If the address was mistaken and truely was from DHL, how could DHL possibly look me up by a mistaken address and get the right e-mail address, even if they DID have my e-mail (they don’t).
The e-mail address it was sent to is never used as an e-mail address, it is used as a ‘throwaway’ address so that spam sent to it goes in round-file 13 (trashcan).
Given the above, this can’t possibly have come from DHL.
A file is attached named “Facebook_password_xxxxx.zip”. If it is supposed to be ‘delivery advice’–why is the file named ‘Facebook Password’? The least these so-called hackers could have done is pay attention and got the lies straight.

ADVICE:

If you get an e-mail similar to this, don’t open the attachment, delete it unread.

Posted in Facebook, Malware Alerts, Social, Technology, Tweet | Tagged phish, phishing, security alerts, trojan, viruses, worms