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March 30, 2007- PC Virus Doctors were hit with a phish scam recently that asked to download the most recent release of IE7. Willing participants are actually downloading the W32/Grum-A worm, according to the report by Information Week.
March 24, 2007- A Russian trojan named Gozi has stolen identity from about 5,200 people with over 10,000 pieces of identities and is designed to circumvent banking institution protection. Over 2,000 social security numbers were stolen from entities like student portals, banking applications, online tax return applications, government human resource applications, online job applications, online call centers and others.
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March 19, 2007- According to Information Newsweek, Cingular and Velocity came under fire as Google's white pages started showing their ads on users screens. Cingular and Velocity were accused of using spyware to introduce the ads through Google' white pages to unsuspecting users; Google does not advertise on white pages. New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo held the pair liable and said they would be responsible for contracting throught 3rd party vendors. Cingular and Velocity have refused to cut their ties with known spyware vendors although they insist the contracts with those vendors explicitly state not to use spyware, however, both companies were fined by the State of New York.
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March 19, 2007- Symantec has released their Internet Security Threat Report Volume XI with the following highlights: (1) 6 million bot-infected computers in the last half of 2006 which was a 39% increase over the previous first 6 months of the year. (2) Trojans represented 45% of malicious code, an increase of 23% for the first 6 months of 2006. (3) Underground Economy Servers are being used to sell personal identities. (4) Theft, loss of computers or storage data resulted in 54% of all identity thefts. (5) Symantec releases malicious activity information from the most proliferant countries for the first time: United States 31%, China 10% and Germany 7%.
March 16, 2007- Mozilla is about to role out its first beta security patch to those who signed up and tested the beta version 2. This will mark the procedures in which updates will be released beginning with 2.0.0.3 due out some time tomorrow, Saturday. The regular release to the public is said to 'follow shortly after', according to InformationWeek.com.
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March 11, 2007- The "spring forward" time-change (Daylight Savings-Time) that was authorized to start the second Sunday of March this year by the U.S. Congress has not gone off without a glitch. The government time servers, time.nist.gov, time.nist.gov and time.windows.com are still reporting no time change at exactly 10:30 PM, Dallas C.S.T. These are the time servers that are built into Windows XP by default. PC Virus Doctors feel confident, however, that Microsoft and the Federal Government will have no problems shirking their responsibilites. The airlines have had glitches in their time schedules and municipalities are reporting they are having to manually adjust traffic signals.
PC Virus Doctors have now made a link to our page with two independent time clocks and local weather as a "public service" and will be permanently linked with the "Time and Weather" text in the right-hand column on the main page.
Now, the legitimate question to ask is how much has this cost we the tax payers?
March 8, 2007- Secunia announces that Apples's QuickTime can be exploited by malicious hackers to compromise systems through 3GP video buffer overflows. A boundary error in many of Apples' QuikTime handling is causing buffer overflows that can be exploited, according to Secunia.com
Dallas Computer Repair NewsMarch 3, 2007- Well, the unleashing by one infamous hacker has began; his undaunting threats to Symantec and SANS.org have come to fruition. Stephen Doherty, of Symantec told the news media that the virus writer gave an explicit message to him directly, stating, "For years I have longed for just one thing, to make malware with just the right sting, you detected my creation and got my domains killed, but I will not stop, I can rebuild." The virus hacker left a multitude of explicit language for Doherty and Symantec. The Internet Storm Center was also given a message containing several explicitives for Johannes Ullrich, chief research officer at the SANS Institute and chief technology officer for the Internet Storm Center. The hackers also treatened Mr. Ullrich with a Denial of Service (DoS) if he and his coherts did not comply with the hackers demands.
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