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Home Today's Catch Reader Comments Top-Rated Blogs Add a Blog Info for Bloggers About Us All Topics News Entertainment Politics Technology Cars Sports Health General   Latest post rated: Why Do We Click Randomly And Rapidly When An Appli.... Rating: 3 stars.   Latest blog added: Mason Dexter Adventure Books. Welcome!   More recent ratings:   Married gay celeb challenges misconceptions, eleme.... Rating: 4 stars.   This is the Celebritology goodbye. Rating: 3 stars.   Friday list: Celebritology reminiscences. Rating: 1 stars. Technology Home > Top-Rated Blogs About All Topics > Top-Rated Blogs about Technology > McAfee Avert Labs Blog   Latest Entries from this Source Total Score 139 Rate It McAfee Avert Labs Blog: Bank Account Logins for Sale, Courtesy of Citadel Botnet Financial theft is one of the most lucrative forms of cybercrime. Malware authors continue to deliver sophisticated tools and techniques to unlock online bank accounts. Attackers design and develop botnets to perform financial fraud, targeting banks and o... Dateline: 2013-05-16 11:36pm -07:00T (359 words) Average Rating:   Total Score 139 Rate It McAfee Avert Labs Blog: Travnet Botnet Controls Victims With Remote Admin Tool The malicious binary behind the Travnet botnet has been updated. The new code has a new compression algorithm, steals the list of running processes, adds new file extensions to its list of files to steal, and has improved its control commands. Also, after... Dateline: 2013-05-14 12:36am -07:00T (803 words) Average Rating:   Total Score 137 Rate It McAfee Avert Labs Blog: NCCDC 2013 – Red Team Recap           This past April (4/19 to 4/21) I had the great pleasure and experience of joining the Red Team at 9th NCCDC competition.   It was actually my 2nd year on the Red Team and 4th year to attend in total (I judged in 2010 and 2011).  McAfee is a... Dateline: 2013-05-07 9:06pm -07:00T (743 words) Average Rating:   Total Score 137 Rate It McAfee Avert Labs Blog: Emerging ‘Stack Pivoting’ Exploits Bypass Common Security [This blog was primarily written by Xiaoning Li of Intel Labs, with assistance from Peter Szor of McAfee Labs.] In February 2013, the Adobe Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) released security advisory APSA13-02. In that report they listed tw... Dateline: 2013-05-06 1:51pm -07:00T (1231 words) Average Rating:   Total Score 139 Rate It McAfee Avert Labs Blog: Tracking PDF Usage Poses a Security Problem Looking back this year’s RSA Conference, you might have the feeling that the current threat landscape is primarily a series of advanced attacks. This concept includes well-known advanced persistent threats (APTs) and zero-day vulnerability exploits.... Dateline: 2013-04-26 5:05pm -07:00T (601 words) Average Rating:   Total Score 136 Rate It McAfee Avert Labs Blog: Travnet Botnet Steals Huge Amount of Sensitive Data In a McAfee Labs blog by my colleague Vikas Taneja last month, he discussed high-level functioning in the malware Travnet. Since then we have continued to analyze different samples and now classify Travnet as a botnet rather than a Trojan because of the p... Dateline: 2013-04-23 6:36pm -07:00T (894 words) Average Rating:   Total Score 138 Rate It McAfee Avert Labs Blog: Cybercriminals Exploit News of Boston Marathon Bombing, Texas Fertilizer Plant Explosion McAfee Labs Messaging Security recently observed a spam campaign based on the Boston Marathon bombing and the Texas fertilizer plant explosion. The messages take advantage of our interest in these tragic events to lure victims to malware and exploits. Las... Dateline: 2013-04-23 12:21pm -07:00T (497 words) Average Rating:   Total Score 136 Rate It McAfee Avert Labs Blog: Blackhole Exploit Kit Spam Campaigns Disguised as Top Service Brands Spam campaigns based on the Blackhole Exploit Kit send messages that contain links to compromised legitimate websites, which serve hidden iframes and redirections that exploit vulnerabilities across operating systems–from Android to Windows. Spam th... Dateline: 2013-04-17 4:20pm -07:00T (338 words) Average Rating:   Total Score 138 Rate It McAfee Avert Labs Blog: Fake Vertu App Infects Korean and Japanese Android Users A new threat has surfaced targeting users in Korea and Japan, but this attack, unlike others making the news, is not one motivated by political or ideological dogma. Instead, this one is based purely on old-fashioned greed. Vertu phone owners or those loo... Dateline: 2013-04-10 1:36pm -07:00T (566 words) Average Rating:   Total Score 136 Rate It McAfee Avert Labs Blog: One-Click Fraud Variant on Google Play in Japan Steals User Data Last week McAfee Labs reported a series of “one-click fraud” malware on Google Play in Japan. We have been monitoring this fraudulent activity and have found more than 120 additional variants on Google Play since the previous report. The malic... Dateline: 2013-04-09 11:36am -07:00T (490 words) Average Rating:   Total Score 137 Rate It McAfee Avert Labs Blog: Tibetan Activists Targeted with More Android Malware Following the recent discovery of Android/Chuli.A, yet another Android malware has now been found using the same method as Chuli.A: via forged email messages with the Android malware (APK file) as an attachment. However, instead of creating a standalone m... Dateline: 2013-04-08 3:35pm -07:00T (930 words) Average Rating:   Total Score 139 Rate It McAfee Avert Labs Blog: Turkish ‘Delete Virus’ Targets Facebook Users Facebook continues to be a favorite target for attackers to spread fake wall-post messages or fake scams. Most of the time these fake messages are involved in fake scams that ask users to respond to surveys. Recently, I discovered a Facebook wall post wit... Dateline: 2013-04-08 3:35pm -07:00T (425 words) Average Rating:   Total Score 137 Rate It McAfee Avert Labs Blog: Phishing Threat Uses UTF-8 BOM in ZIP Signature to Evade Detection Last week, we noticed thousands of malware files in the wild that employ a simple phishing attack by modifying the hosts file on Windows systems. What’s interesting, however, is the technique chosen by the malware authors to distribute their payload... Dateline: 2013-04-08 1:06pm -07:00T (504 words) Average Rating:   Total Score 141 Rate It McAfee Avert Labs Blog: Ongoing Google Play Attacks Plague Japanese with Variation on One-Click Fraud In what may be the biggest security-related incident on Google Play this year, multiple Trojans targeting Japanese users were discovered carrying the strain of Android one-click fraud. McAfee Mobile Research has already identified multiple developer accou... Dateline: 2013-04-03 9:51am -07:00T (421 words) Average Rating:   Total Score 141 Rate It McAfee Avert Labs Blog: Beware of Clicking the Web Translator Hyperlink Foreign languages are no longer as difficult to understand as they once were, thanks to improvements in web translation services, which instantly translate words and web pages. The website translator plug-in can expand your global world with an amazing an... Dateline: 2013-04-03 9:51am -07:00T (519 words) Average Rating:     Copyright 2013 Blogowogo.com. 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