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alt="" width="125" height="93">You have to
admit, the people who try to take over your
computer or steal your private information for
their own shady purposes are undoubtedly
inventive. It seems as if every month they develop
at least one surprising new major exploit of
computers and the Internet, and recently they have
been <a
href="http://www.securityweek.com/mcafee-sees-biggest-increase-malware-attacks-last-four-years">more
active</a> than they have been for years. We're
seeing news stories about routers turned into
botnet clients, government-built viruses (just who
are the good guys?), and new PCs shipped
pre-infected with malware. And what the heck is a
UDID anyway?
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font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.securityweek.com/router-botnets-are-more-reality-you-think">Router
botnets are more of a reality than you think</a>
(SecurityWeek/Steve Ragan) "Unfortunately, those
are just some of the ways to maliciously flash a
router without anyone being the wiser. Updated
firmware (as in ensuring the device is current
on the latest version) can help in some cases
but not all, as attacks that target retained
settings within the device's memory can still
lead to compromise. In the end, using an open
router within an active SOHO [Small Office/Home
Office] environment will come down to risk
tolerance. If the business is ok with the risk,
no need to worry."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/17/usa-security-viruses-idUSL1E8KEJBV20120917">Cyber
clues link U.S. to new computer viruses</a>
(Reuters/Jim Finkle) "The United States has
already been linked to the Stuxnet Trojan that
attacked Iran's nuclear program in 2010 and the
sophisticated Flame cyber surveillance tool that
was uncovered in May. Anti-virus software makers
Symantec Corp of the United States and Kaspersky
Lab of Russia disclosed on Monday that they have
found evidence that Flame's operators may have
also worked with three other viruses that have
yet to be discovered."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_blog/archive/2012/09/13/microsoft-disrupts-the-emerging-nitol-botnet-being-spread-through-an-unsecure-supply-chain.aspx">Microsoft
disrupts the emerging Nitol botnet being
spread through an unsecure supply chain</a>
(Official Microsoft Blog/Richard Domingues
Boscovich) "The discovery and successive action
against the Nitol botnet stemmed from a
Microsoft study looking into unsecure supply
chains. The study confirmed that cybercriminals
preload malware infected counterfeit software
onto computers that are offered for sale to
innocent people. In fact, twenty percent of the
PCs researchers bought from an unsecure supply
chain were infected with malware."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/09/ask-ars-whats-the-big-deal-with-iphone-udids/">What's
the big deal with iPhone UDIDs?</a> (Ars
Technica/Chris Foresman) "The UDID [Unique
Device Identifier] could be used as a sort of
'anonymized' token. However, many developers
connected a UDID with users' real names, user
names, passwords, location, or other data. While
the UDID alone would be of little use to hackers
or identity thieves, network snoopers could
correlate these UDIDs with other data gleaned
from multiple apps, which privacy advocates
believe is plenty to home in on a particular
person."</li>
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fact:</em></strong></small><br>
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font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;">According
to <a
href="http://www.mcafee.com/us/resources/reports/rp-quarterly-threat-q2-2012.pdf">McAfee
Labs</a> [pdf], more than eight million new
kinds of malware were launched in the second
quarter of 2012.
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