April 30, 2010 03:35 by
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As we approach the 40-day mark to World Cup 2010 kick-off Symantec researchers have uncovered huge data theft associated with the Qakbot botnet with up to two gigabytes of stolen confidential information being uploaded to FTP servers every week.
W32.Qakbot is a worm that spreads through network shares. It downloads additional files, steals confidential information and ...
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April 21, 2010 03:52 by
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The 50-day landmark before the kick-off of football’s 2010 World Cup is here and while a gloomy Europe waits for Icelandic volcanic ash to settle, South Africa’s President, Jacob Zuma, is all smiles as he confirms his country is ready to host the world’s premier sporting event.
Almost simultaneously, football fans have welcomed the initiation of the f...
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April 14, 2010 03:09 by
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Almost three weeks after 2010Netthreat.com reported a malicious, targeted e-mail attack that used the 2010 Soccer World Cup to entice users to open an infected PDF attachment, we can report that less than 40% of major security vendors are blocking it!
According to Symantec’s Dan Bleaken, the cyber criminals used a very fresh vulnerability in Adobe Reader to launc...
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April 9, 2010 02:19 by
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Symatec researchers have uncovered yet another 419 or advance fee e-mail scam riding on the wave of publicity surrounding the 2010 Fifa World Cup. Purporting to be from the imaginatively named “Fifa Support African Team”, the e-mail informs recipients they have won US$1,950 million in a weekly lottery.
According to the researchers, the latest scam follows t...
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April 8, 2010 03:33 by
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Football fans are eagerly awaiting the release of Panini’s range of player stickers for Fifa’s 2010 World Cup and the Internet will be the centre of a bustling trade in these sought after collectables. Researchers warn, however, that even this seemingly innocent activity has its dangers.
According to Candid Wueest, senior threat researcher at Symantec, past...
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April 1, 2010 03:01 by
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By Candid Wueest
In previous columns we’ve discussed the different online threats Internet users face in the run up to the 2010 Soccer World Cup. These include spam e-mails offering false VIP tickets to important matches and hotel websites that unknowingly host Trojans that infect prospective guests’ PCs or steal credit card details during the online reserv...
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