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April, 2007
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April 20, 2007- Police in Britain are cracking down on people stealing their neighbor's wireless connection, known as "leeching". Even those people who leave their wireless network unsecure may now be protected in England it appears. Although the act may seem harmless the activity could be used to steal identities or commit cyberfraud.
Two individual in Worcestershire received warnings for "dishonestly obtaining electronic communication services with intent to avoid payment.”
Solution: Secure your wireless internet connection.
April 14, 2007- Microsoft's Domain Name Server System is suffering attacks from the botworm known as Rinbot and also known as Delbot-AI and Nirbot exploiting a vulnerability that has some corporations worried, according to Information Week.
Rinbot exploits internet relay chat and takes over a computer when successful, stealing a users personal information. Microsoft "hopes" to have a patch by May 8th.
Solution: Stay off internet chat until May 8 or until Microsoft announces a patch or solution.
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April 14, 2007- a variant of the Storm Worm hit last Thursday and by Friday had infected more thatn 20,000 machines. The worm comes in an email with the subject line "Worm Alert", "Virus Alert", "Worm Activity Detected!". Inside the email is a graphic with a pass code and a zip file. The code is used to unlock the file where the worm is released. This is a particulartly nasty virus that is hard to remove once it has infected the computer. The worm then takes data and connects to a peer-to-peer network where it uploads users profiles and sesitive documents.
This worm can download additional malware and searches the drive for the users email addresses and sends out infected email to them.
Solution: Ignore such emails. Never open emails from someone you do not know or trust.
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April 7, 2007- PC Virus Doctors have had numerous hits to our site from internet surfers trying to find information on iPod viruses. An iPod virus was submitted to F-Secure who reports the virus can only replicate through iPod Linux Operating Systems loaded on the Apple iPods. This is a proof of concept virus and will not replicate on other Operating Systems. On a related note, Kaspersky Anti-virus claims to have created the first iPod virus operating on the Linux iPod OS, according to Kaspersky's VirusList Blog. The iPod virus is called Oslo Virus.
April 6, 2007- Microsoft's Patch Tuesday this week had a .ANI vulnerability which had hackers exploit it and the hackers sent emails to "promise nude pictures of Britney Spears" to attempt and lure internet surfers to malicious sites, according to Information Week. Anti-virus company, Sophos, reports that the malicious site contains the Iffy-A Trojan pointing to another trojan Sophos identifies as the zero-day .ANI exploit, Animoo-L. Security experts have said about 700 websites now contain the .ANI exploit. Also to note is specially designed and crafted emails may contain the exploit.
Solution: A new Microsoft Patch is offered to repair the problem.
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