Daily Archives: November 6, 2006

PhishTank Statistics for October 2006

The United States and South Korea top the list of countries that hosted phishing sites in October, according to data from PhishTank, an open database tracking trends in e-mail fraud attacks. See details here.

Share
Posted in Internet Security, Privacy, Security | Leave a comment

New Zero-Day Exploit for Microsoft Systems

One more new zero-day exploit for Microsoft systems has appeared, capable of compromising fully patched IE 6/7 systems when a user visits a malicious website. Microsoft has issued an advisory on the ActiveX vulnerability and exploit (see it here), first … Continue reading

Share
Posted in Internet Security, Security | Leave a comment

Using Lasers to Boost Security

It’s been more than 20 years since quantum cryptography systems have been developed, taking over communication security from classical cryptography systems–the kind that used extremely difficult mathematical equations. Now, however, scientists Jacob Scheuer and Amnon Yariv have designed a new … Continue reading

Share
Posted in Cryptography | Leave a comment

Wikipedia can be Used by Scammers for Virus Distribution

This is awfull! Hackers entered a Web page into the German edition of Wikipedia that claimed there was a new variant of the Blaster virus floating around and provided a link to a download to remove the virus. The problem … Continue reading

Share
Posted in Internet Security | Leave a comment