ISP Phone SCAM

It's a crime!

The dodgy folk are now trying a new variation on the previously mentioned Microsoft Scam.  

They've obviously realised that word has got round that nobody is trusting the "I'm speaking from Windows" speech and now they've replaced it with "I am from Technical support at your Internet Service Provider", they say something along the lines of "we have noticed on our servers that each time you switch your computer on, you are not getting full internet speed and this is because of a virus on your machine. " 

US Chamber of Commerce

US CHAMBER OF COMMERCE HACKED BY CHINESE HACKERS

In 2010, it was found that hackers with links to China had performed a complex hacking attack on the US Chamber of Commerce.

Read More at the Wall Street Journal

America is losing the cybersecurity war; China hacked every major US company

Gloom and doom is the predicted forecast, but that is in regard to U.S. cybersecurity instead of the weather. Four top government cybersecurity officials have basically come out to say America is getting her hiney kicked in cyberattacks by nation state hackers.

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America is losing the cybersecurity war; China hacked every major US company

Vulnerability Research into CVE2012-1852

I'm currently working on a project for my Msc in Computer Security to investigate CVE2012-1852, which is a vulnerability within Windows XP and the mechanism for discovering other computers located on the network.  It means that a Windows XP machine can be compromised just by opening a list of networked computers. 

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Null Terminated String Copy

Research into a heap buffer overflow error in Windows XP version of NetApi32.dll reveals that the code is using a null terminated string copy.  The patched version of the same dll shows that the copy code has been replaced by a better function that checks the size of the destination buffer.

It's all about trust

Before the days of social networking, hackers and malicious types had to rely on email to distribute their evilness.  They'd send an email with an infected attachment of something that looks interesting that are designed to tempt you in opening the file.  Things like "Cat does handstand on top of dog's head", "Naked Man with big tennis balls at Wimbledon"  or "Cute girl on Channel 4 Countdown spells rude word" - most people caught onto the fact that a lot of these unsolicited emails will most likely contain a virus meaning that the trust in email attachments has been lost and therefore the possibilities of attack via email becomes much less.

Moving into the 21st century and the overwhelmingly popularity of social networking sites, such as facebook and twitter, the malicious hacker is provided a whole new and far more powerful means of infecting hundreds, thousands or even millions of people - the reason is TRUST.

Where Does It Go?

So you're enjoying spending some time on Twitter and catching up on the latest trending topic when someone you've never heard of before sends you a shortened link - Do you click it?

Google Poisoning

Google's Adwords Keyword finder says that the word "Google" has  a huge google search rate a month!

Another highly searched for term is "What is Google?"

Telephone Scam - Not Microsoft or Windows

If someone phones you up and says that they're from Microsoft or "Windows" and that there's a problem with your computer being infected by a virus,  just say "no thanks" and hang up.

Its not Microsoft or anything to do with Windows - they never phone people up at home out of the blue like this.

It's a scam!  

Some of the aims of the scam are:

• Gain access to your computer to install viruses and other bad programs to monitor everything you do
• Obtain banking information - credit card information
• Charge you a lot of money for supposidly fixing this problem that doesn't exist