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I know that it can be very frustrating to turn on the computer and find you cannot access the internet. Sometimes its an easy fix, resetting the router or the modem. Other times it just makes you want to through the machine out the Window. We are not the only ones who have these problems.
The problems started when Wikimedia servers overheated in the organization’s European data center and shut themselves off automatically.
Wikimedia then switched all its traffic to its server cluster in Florida, but the failover process, which involves changing servers’ DNS entries, malfunctioned, knocking the organization’s sites offline around the world.
“Shortly after we did this failover switch, it turned out that this failover mechanism was now broken, causing the DNS resolution of Wikimedia sites to stop working globally,” wrote Mark Bergsma, Wikimedia’s operations engineer in a post on Wikimedia’s Technical Blog.
According to Fortinet, an Internet security firm, miscreants recently hit Internet with a massive campaign of ransomware, as per the news published on NETWORKWORLD on March 6, 2010.
Spotted by Fortinet, the HTML/Goldun.AXT campaign made up for over half the overall malware identified for the entire month of February 2010. This happened within the time period of just two days, i.e. February 8 and 9, 2010, pointing towards its unusual magnitude.
The daily detected amount for HTML/Goldun.AXT ransomware containing malicious e-mails was quite near the record levels during these two days. The campaign used the filename “report.zip” to deliver the malware, which when executed would download rogue AV.
This malware actually downloaded “Security Tool”, a ransomware. Security Tool is an advanced version of “Total Security,” a group of scareware which was prevalent in 2009.
From PC Magazine
Facebook Worm Sells Itself with a Booty Call
Gadi Evron noted a new Facebook worm over the weekend. The hook to it appears in a friend’s profile as the racy image at left.
Click the image, and you are brought to a Web page with the same image.
Analysis by famous malware analyst Nick Fitzgerald calls this a CSRF
(Cross-Site Request Forgery) attack, a cousin to cross-site scripting:
A sequence of iframes on the exploit page call
a sequence of other pages and scripts, eventually resulting in a form submission to Facebook “as if” the victim had submitted a URL for a wall post and clicked on the “Share” button to confirm the post.
Afterward, you are redirected to a porn site.
The search giant said that it had taken immediate action to safeguard the affected accounts.
Phishing involves using fake websites to lure people into revealing data such as bank account details or login names.
BBC News has seen two lists that detail more than 30,000 names and passwords that have been posted online.
This is part of an article from PcMagazine.
More and more, users, however, put stress on the network. Broadband speeds advertised by ISPs are generally slower than they claim to be – as much as 50 percent “and possibly more during the busy hours,” according to a statement from the FCC. About 1 percent of all users drive 20 percent of traffic and 20 percent of all users drive 80 percent of traffic, the FCC added.
Raise your hand if it surprises you that the ISPs have been lying to us. Ok…….I see one hand in the back of the room. Just go to the bathroom, you don’t have to ask.
When, not if, but when, your computer gets infected after calling us at 563-388-1727 you need to call your bank and have them change your password. It is also advisable to do this for Paypal and also Ebay and any brokerage account you may access online.
A computer virus lying in wait for a few years is now stealing online banking log-in information around the world, but several major banks operating in central Ohio say it hasn’t hit their customers.
The Clampi malware — also called Ligats and Rscan — is a Trojan virus, which means that it infects a computer when a user visits an infected Web site.
While evidence exists that Clampi first surfaced in 2007, the latest uptick in online crimes began in July. The Washington Post reported three instances in which cyberthieves siphoned money during that month.
In the first case, a Kentucky county treasurer’s computer was infected with the malware, and the county lost $415,000 to cybercriminals, The Post reported. In the other two cases, online crooks took more than $700,000 from a public-school district near Pittsburgh and robbed an auto-parts store in Georgia of nearly $75,000.
Norway’s Opera Software ASA on Tuesday launched a new feature for its Internet browser allowing users to share photos, music and files directly with one another, without needing to go through outside services such as Facebook and Flickr.
The company said its Opera Unite service can also be used to access personal files stored on a home computer from a laptop, office computer or a mobile phone. Unlike traditional Web services, the files are never stored on any external servers, but move directly from one computer to another.
Trend Micro is reporting that the Waledac worm is on a spamming tear, sending out messages that push Google money-making schemes and swine flu vaccine scams. They provide numerous samples. Here are some of the subject lines.
- Be your own boss with Google
- Earn cash using Google today
- Google System that really works
- Make a fortune online
- Anti-swine flu drugs are available here
- Anti-viral treatment for swine flu
- Are you worried about swine flu?
- Are you worried about swine flu? buy medicine!
- Be quick! anti-swine flu drugs are almost sold out
- Buy medicine that prevent you from getting swine flu
- Buy medicine to prevent swine flu
The links in the messages lead to a Canadian pharmacy site that is all too familiar to people who follow these schemes. Don’t fall prey to these schemes. If it sounds to good to be true it is.
Dear Customer:
After three unsuccessful attempts to access your account, your Wells Fargo Online Profile has been locked. This has been done to secure your accounts and to protect your private information. Wells Fargo is committed to making sure that your online transactions are secure.
To unlock your account, and verify your identity please follow this link and sign in:
Sincerely,
Wells Fargo
Online Customer Service
This is the email I received. Since I do not have any Wells Fargo accounts I knew it was a fake. What we wanted to show you is that if you move your mouse over the link and then look down in the lower left hand corner ( in Internet Explorer) you will see it directs you to a site that has nothing to do with Wells Fargo.
By Adam de Boor, Software Engineer Google Gmail
I used to have a problem. People would ask me questions, over chat or email, and I’d have to leave Gmail to search Google for an answer. Then I’d have to select the answer, copy it, go back to Gmail and paste the answer into the chat window or my reply. Sometimes I’d get distracted and forget to go back to Gmail, and I’d have to go through it all again when I remembered what I’d been doing.
With the new Google Search experiment in Gmail Labs, my problem is solved. When you turn this feature on from the Labs tab under Settings you’ll see a new search box on the left side of your inbox.