Microsoft security center search results poisoned with malicious links
Microsoft suspended the search capability on its Safety & Security Center Web site after it was discovered cyber criminals poisoned the results with malicious links. Search result poisoning, technically known as black hat search engine optimization (BHSEO), is a common…
Top level domain explosion could wreak mayhem on net
A plan to populate the Internet with hundreds or thousands of new top-level domains has security researchers pondering some of the unintended consequences that could be exploited by online criminals. Mayhem might result from addresses that end in “exchange,” “mailserver,”…
Popular FTP package download tarball poisoned
A backdoor was discovered in the source code of a widely used FTP package. Version 2.3.4 of the source code for vsftpd – billed as probably the most secure and fastest FTP server for Unix-like systems – was replaced with…
Microsoft clarifies MBR rootkit removal advice.
Microsoft June 29 clarified the advice it gave users whose Windows PCs are infected with a new, sophisticated rootkit that buries itself on the hard drive’s boot sector. Several security researchers agreed with Microsoft’s revisions, but a botnet expert doubted…