Monday, 26 October 2009

Guardianjobs website

Sunday,24 october 2009,Guardian jobs website was hacked into.
I believe email addresses/passwords have been taken

Friday, 23 October 2009

various threats,23 october 2009

Some sites that have news about stephen gately's death are spreading rogueware that falsely claim you have a virus on your computer.

The keywords`emma stone nude' could lead you to malware infected pages that prompt false warning messages on one's computer

Monday, 19 October 2009

Trojan horses

Today ,my avg detected two trojan pws.banker infections.

Trojan horses are malware that infect your computer,possibly to find out your passwords etc

29 march 2010;discovered another trojan

Saturday, 10 October 2009

Various threats;10 october 2009

There is a scam inviting surfers to play the monopoly board game online,surfers are redirected to a website,where their pc are prompted to download a trojan horse,when the trojan is activated on the victims' pcs, its links to another computer for more malware,that converts computer into in effect a botnet sending out spam promoting canadian pharmacy products.

Services that shorten urls are being used by cybercriminals to disguise links to malware-infected websites

Thursday, 8 October 2009

Thousands of email logins/passwords posted online

Details of over 10,000 passwords for hotmail accounts beginning with A and B appeared on the internet over the weekend.

Possibly 250,000 account details of Gmail/googlemail,yahoo and aol users have been posted on the internet.

Users are advised to change their passwords.

Some people also use same password for paypal etc