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CNET News Security & Privacy Flashback creators netted $10,000 per day at its height? Symantec says, based on information it has collected, that the Flashback Trojan creators might have been generating some serious cash from the exploit.

by Don Reisinger May 1, 2012 7:41 AM PDT Apple’s Flashback Trojan was a major concern for Mac OS X users. But it might have also been a huge revenue opportunity for its creators. According to security firm Symantec, which has been analyzing Flashback, the Trojan known as OSX.Flashback.K included a significant ad-clicking component that the company says, was designed to help the creators generate revenue. ‘Flashback specifically targets search queries made on Google and, depending on the search query, may redirect users to another page of the attacker’s choosing, where they receive revenue from the click,’ Symantec wrote in a blog post. ‘Google never receives the intend”

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from the top get the following loaded on your computer:

Pick one anti-virus from below:
esetnode 32 http://www.eset.com/us/download/free-trial
AVG http://free.avg.com/us-en/homepage
Kaspersky http://usa.kaspersky.com/store/all-products
f-secure http://www.f-secure.com/en_US/
Now the question is why I have not listed symantec, mcafee or any CA products…. the big three tend to be long way behind the curve when it comes to new bugs and outbreaks…  They also tend to provide a false sense of protection. after all they do everything in one stop.
The problem with a compromise is that you will never get the best product in any category…,also the big three tend to be very very heavy in terms os system over head..
sorry that means they make your system run slower or sluggish….

And YES I also mean on MAC’s also…  my pick on mac is kaspersky
although apples systems tend to be less prone to get bugs…when they do it is usually because a user has installed something as root…   sorry I mean the mac displayed a screen box asking you the enter a password you put it in and NOW YOU STILL CAN NOT SEE THE VIDEO OF SOME CELEBRITY doing something naughty…. But the hacker now owns the system….

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Over on the post “Newly emerged banking Trojan challenges ZeuS-SpyEye duopoly • The Register” contains this text:

The Sunspot Trojan has already been linked to instances of fraudulent losses, according to transaction security firm Trusteer. The Windows-based malware is designed to carry out man-in-the-browser attacks, including web injections, page-grabbing, key-logging and screen shooting (a feature that captures screenshots of the location of a mouse as a user types his/her password on a virtual keyboard).

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Over on About Internet / Network Security the post “Gamers’ Data Pwned in Massive PlayStation Network Data Breach” contains this text:

“I haven’t been able to access any online content lately on my PS3 and now I know why.

 

Sony released an official statement on their blog yesterday informing gamers that there…”

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Over on the post “Enterprise Security Today | EC2 Outage Takes Out Multiple Sites, Including Foursquare” contains this text:

“EC2 Outage Takes Out Multiple Sites, Including Foursquare By Barry Levine April 21, 2011 1:54PM

Foursquare and other web sites were affected by problems at Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud data center. Amazon said additional capacity was added to support EC2’s ‘affected availability zone’ in Virginia. The outage is likely to add to the debate about reliability and security when using a vendor data center like Amazon’s EC2.   Related Topics Foursquare Amazon EC2 Outage Data Center Security Latest News EC2 Outage Takes Out Multiple Sites National Lab Needs Cybersecurity Your iPhone Knows Where You Were U.S. CIO Sets Ambitious Cloud Goals Windows 8: What’s in Store for OS?

Amazon’s cloud -based platform suffered outages Thursday. The company said the problems involved latency and other errors, and it brought down the web sites of Foursquare, Quora, HootSuite, Reddit and other companies. The problems hit the part of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) that supports start-ups. In a statement, Amazon said it is ‘now seeing significantly reduced failures and latency,’ and it continues to recover. It added that additional capacity has been brought online to support ‘the affected availability zone.'”

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“Hackers get ‘more violent’ against security firms

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By Tom Brewster
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Security firms are getting hit by more attacks.
Security firms are being targeted by more violent attacks than ever before, one of the industry’s top experts has warned.

Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer at F-Secure, said security providers had to deal with some ‘pretty aggressive attacks’ in recent months.

‘We are seeing more of them now than before and they are more violent attacks,’ Hypponen said today.”

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