Tag Archive for: servers

Bamital botnet dismantled, as Microsoft seizes control of malware servers

Security experts at Microsoft, working with others in the computer security industry, have disrupted a botnet being used by the Bamital malware family. Here’s how you know if *you* need to take any action on your PCs.
Naked Security – Sophos

Security concerns for Apple servers – Financial Times

The team said that while the security of Apple’s Mac OS X operating system for individual computers had improved with new versions, infections were no longer unheard of. This year, Apple issued a series of security updates to its software as it battled …
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Phishing Sites Hosted on Google’s Servers – F-Secure

Google Docs allows users to create documents, spreadsheets, et cetera at google.com (hosted in Google’s cloud): Spreadsheets can even contain functionality, such as forms, and these can be published to the whole world. Unfortunately, that means we …
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Sony servers now hit by phishing scam – Silicon Republic

This latest attack is separate to the hacking attack that forced the PlayStation Network’s closure in recent weeks. F-Secure discovered the phishing site running on Sony’s official Thailand website that redirected users to a phishing site that …
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