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I read recently in SC Magazine that Web 2.0 technologies may be Open Seasons for Attackers. Why?

With the advent and uptake of Web 2.0 and its associated server environment of P2P networking, social networking, bookmarking, media sharing, blogs, wikis and RSS feeds, the boundary between the trusted network and the Internet is quickly disappearing.
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From ITWire

With Valentines Day approaching, users are warned of a fresh outbreak of the Storm (Dorf) Trojan that uses romantic themes to infect the unsuspecting.

Targets will receive emails with Subject lines include “Falling In Love with You”, “Special Romance”, “You’re In My Thoughts”, “Sent with Love”, “Our Love Will Last”, “Our Love is Strong”, “Your Love Has Opened”, “You’re the One”, “A Toast My Love”, “Heavenly Love”, “Memories of You”, “Pages from My Heart”, “Eternal Love” and “A Dream is a Wish”.

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According to SC Magazine, for security professionals, there are two new Phishing scams that you should be aware of.

The first scam uses a reference to the recipient’s holiday credit card spending pattern during the Christmas season. The start of this phishing campaign coincides with the arrival of credit card statements and is expected to last until the middle of next month. As usual, social engineering will play a major part in the attack - an email will be received by advising of problems with their credit card transactions and will target the gathering of account information, like account numbers, usernames and passwords. The concern is that people do get confused at this time of year because of the number of transactions conducted over November / December for Christmas.

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Similar to anti-virus software, trojan removal programs clean your computer of spyware, adware, and other offending programs to help ensure the health of your PC.

To manually remove spyware can be a very daunting process when you consider that each spyware program typically has it’s own list of files you will need to search for throughout your hard disk. If you miss one or more of these components you run the risk of it automatically re-installing itself or causing other programs to work improperly.

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Key-Logger - What is it?

A Key-Logger is a program that when installed on your PC can record every key stroke of the keyboard which can be viewed by the owner of the PC or another person without the knowledge of the owner.

Key-Logger threats are extreme privacy risks as they can lead to identity theft and financial losses resulting form such theft. These may include theft of credit card numbers, theft of on-line bank login details and many other very serious privacy risks.

There are hundreds of known Key-Logger tools distributed via major shareware download sites. And there are possibly many more that are custom written for the purpose of obtaining confidential information and are not available for download. Key-Loggers are almost impossible to detect without using specialized privacy protection tool such as Spyware Doctor.

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