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September 2009 Archives
September 16, 2009
A New Way of Phishing - Chat-in-the-Middle
The RSA FraudAction Research Lab has recently discovered a new type of phishing attack that targets online banking customers (e.g. me and you). While past phishing attacks simply look for the victim to enter in their online banking credentials, this one does not stop there.
After the victim is tricked into entering their login credientials (usually at this point, entering in their login credentials, the victims are redirected to the phishing Web site or to the real bank Web site.), the attacker goes one step further by initiating an online live chat session. During this live chat, the attacker attempts to extort even more information from the victim through social engineering (phone numbers, addresses...etc).
Attackers are always finding new and creative ways to obtain sensitive information. You can never be too sure. My best advice is: When in doubt, go to your local branch.
Posted by: Pete at 10:31 PM
Categories: General , Phishing
September 14, 2009
ProSecure STM and UTM Hit 3 Million and 1 Million Malware Signatures Respectively
Nine months into 2009, and we've already seen record setting growth in malware. This exponential growth does not look like it is going to stop any time soon. As the malware industry cranks out more malware, those of us in the security industry are busy keeping up so that networks all over the Internet can remain safe.
As of now, the STM has over 3 million malware signatures on the appliance, up from 1.6 million at the start of 2009.
On the other hand we have the UTM, now with over 1 million malware signatures, up from 600 thousand only half a year ago.
We pride ourselves in bringing the best malware (virus, spyware, adware, trojan, keylogger, rootkit, backdoor...etc) protection for small to medium businesses and will continue to counter each and every threat that emerges onto the Internet.
Posted by: Pete at 12:43 AM
Categories: General , Malware , Spyware , Viruses
