Computer Security Today: March 2010

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Seem's someone is noticing me

Well it would seem in the last week or maybe even longer someone has noticed me, My website http://www.saacomputer.com has come under attack. Some of you out there would say 'yeah right' but I use Qualys to scan my site daily, on both the 29th and the 30th my site tested true for Malware. Both days that it was found I imeadiatly upon being notified of the infection cleaned the site. Both days the infection was employed differently, first was through an iframe implementation and the second time was an embedded javascript. All I can think off is that someone does not like the fact I inform users of what is out there and what to avoid. Educated users are less likely to become infected which in turns lowers the rate of which these malicious children are able to do damage. Well I have to thank the children as now I know at least someone reads my posts and notices my work. It also tells me that I may be on the right path of educating people.

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Monday, March 22, 2010

SEO Poisoning, The latest CSI episode or just kids with to much time?

SEO Poisoning, Sounds like a murder mystery for Sherlock Holmes or Gil Grissom (Though I like Abby on NCIS better). In fact it is the art of getting websites that will make you infect your computer with Rogue AV's to the top of very recently popular searches. Rogue Anti Viruses are really Viruses Desqused as Anti Viruses and will cost you Money, Stress, and Time. The rogue AV will say your infected with a large number of Viruses usually Trojans and will then say to remove them you need to buy the full version. This in turn means you enter your credit card information and hit the Buy button, then, wait, and nothing happens. It does not activate or remove the viruses, in fact it sent your credit card information to the writters of the virus. They now have your CC Info and you still have the virus. All because you were searching for the latest gossip about some famous person, or the latest game scores, or the olympic outcomes, while the games are actually still playing. That is what SEO Poisoning is, not you getting upset and feeding your marketer Hemlock cause your google rank is not high enough. So what does this mean? It means that even though you just heard about it today or that the big game is on and your looking for the latest instant replay, you could still be searching for trouble and find it in the form of a computer virus.

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Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Fake PIN pad units in US chain store

In a daily digest I get from another blog source about security, I see this story titled 'Fake PIN pad units in US chain store' my first thought is. Oh Great! and not in a good way. I am a Point of Sale Tech, that means I service registers and ATM devices like these. An average month I can replace 15 to 20 of these at times. Does this mean my work will slow down cause people are afraid to have their registers serviced? These skimmers are hurting more than the people that they get Credit Card info from, they are hurting the stores, and the service techs because now people will not trust the techs that work on the systems.

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