Goodie, more viruses.

Virus from China the gift that keeps on living

An insidious computer virus recently discovered on digital photo frames has been identified as a powerful new Trojan Horse from China that collects passwords for online games - and its designers might have larger targets in mind.

"It is a nasty worm that has a great deal of intelligence," said Brian Grayek, who heads product development at Computer Associates, a security vendor that analyzed the Trojan Horse.

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There's something out there that's twice as big as Storm being called Kraken:

http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=150292&WT.svl=news1_1

The word is Dutch and means "to burgle/break in/to crack" or similar, but it's also a type of octopus. It's a spambot and infection is via images!

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Hackers get hold of critical Internet flaw

Internet security researchers on Thursday warned that hackers have caught on to a "critical" flaw that lets them control traffic on the Internet.

An elite squad of computer industry engineers that laboured in secret to solve the problem released a software "patch" two weeks ago and sought to keep details of the vulnerability hidden at least a month to give people time to protect computers from attacks.

Interesting website in here


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Kaminsky built a web page ,http://www.doxpara.com/ , where people can find out whether their computers have the DNS vulnerability. As of Thursday, slightly more than half the computers tested at the website still needed to be patched.