Computer Security Today: January 2010

Friday, January 29, 2010

First Tutorial on How to Keep Your System Secure Using Spybot Search & Destroy

In this Tutorial I show you the simple task of updating your software. I know simple enough, right? I see day in and day out where even this simple task was not done,

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Sunday, January 24, 2010

Drive-by Virus's On The Rise, But Not New

Well last night I saw a news article on Fox about Facebook status messages that are linked to a site that downloads viruses to your computer. This drive by attack is not new. MySpace users have faced it for years with injection code in themes and advertisements. Back in 2006 there was an attack on MySpace users through a flash vulnerability where user accounts were hijacked and menus were inserted. Yahoo and AOL chat users get regularly attacked with links to malware sites. The first and best advise I have for my customers is use trusted anti-virus and spyware software.

Free Trustable Solutions:
AVG
Avast
Avira
Spybot S&D

I use all 4 of those on my own system, My parents computers, and my customers systems. With all the malicious website out there you cant afford to trust bloated antivirus software that admits that they do not look for even one half of the virus's they used to.

Even While writing this another drive by site was formed with a sensationalized news headline about a Hollywood Icon Killed in a Car Crash and spread by Twitter and Facebook users. So new ones are formed as soon as the old are caught and removed. Do Not Let Your Guard Down Ever.

Sunday, January 17, 2010

IE Flaw leads to Intrusion at Major Companies

Well here we are again, Due to bad code in Internet Explorer 30 some companies including Google, Adobe and Microsoft themselves were compromissed. What were tha hackers after? What else customer data, I know times are tough but come on people you dont need to be stealing other peoples identities to survive. Just go get real job. If you dont want a real one, I know write something to actually fix the problem you found and exploited and sell it to Microsoft. if your good enough to write bad code, I am sure your good enough to write good code to, and hey, not get locked up in a fedral penetentary without being alloewed to touch a computer again. That would mean oh, I dont know, maybe only working construction or Burger King forever. I know what I say wont change thier minds but I am still entitled to My Opinion. For all of you out there dont forget to keep your Automatic Updates on I am sure a patch will be released Tuesday or soon at least to cover this flaw.

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