security

Jiangmin Releases 2007 Virus Report

vietjim — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 14:26:00 -0600

China Tech News reports:
Jiangmin, one of the largest anti-virus software providers in China, has published its annual computer virus epidemic report and top ten virus rank for 2007, which shows that the company blocked more than 363,000 kinds of new computer viruses in 2007 when an accumulative 34,414,793 computers were attacked.
They spot a disturbing trend:
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Make Your Own Malware (in Chinese)

vietjim — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 00:26:00 -0600

F-Secure, the anti-virus and security company, has a great post in its blog explaining why there are so many variants of malicious software (malware) out there.
They provide the example (with screen shots) of a Chinese kit to build variants of the Hupigon trojan. The kit allows the user to pick what kind of file [...]
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All Hail the King: Kaspersky Succeeds in Rising Suit

vietjim — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 07:35:00 -0600

Pacific Epoch reports:
Chinese anti-virus software company Rising was found on December 19 to have engaged in unfair competition with its Russian competitor Kaspersky, reports Sohu. Tianjin No.1 Intermediate People’s Court ordered Rising to pay RMB451,000 in compensation to Kaspersky, post a public apology for a week, as well as delete all slanderous posts about Kaspersky, [...]
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China Online Banking: Security Warnings and Bad Advice

vietjim — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 07:00:00 -0600

Shanghai Daily reports:
CHINA’S Ministry of Public Security has released a circular advising investors who trade or bank on-line to monitor their accounts for fraud.
The circular said that although on-line bank accounts were convenient, they were subject to security flaws.
What are the security flaws? Trojans designed to steal account information. While there’s no description [...]
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Hacking the Beijing Olympics

vietjim — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:57:00 -0600

The South China Morning Post reports:
The Beijing Olympic Games will spark an outbreak of aggressive hacker activity, topping a wave of intense malicious internet attacks expected next year, according to security experts.
They said Beijing Olympics-related websites were prime targets for so-called large-scale denial-of-service attacks. These actions prevent legitimate users from accessing a site’s information or [...]
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Waiting for Zbot: Online Banking Grows in China

vietjim — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 21:14:19 -0600

People’s Daily reports:About one-third of both individual and corporate banking clients in China’s 10 major cities used online services this year, an increase of 4.2 and 1.7 percent from 2006, the China Financial Certification Authority (CFCA) report said.Security was a key concern:The report said that over half of the individual online banking customers surveyed saw [...]
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Understanding China’s Hacker Economy

vietjim — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 21:35:32 -0600

Jianwei Zhuge, Chengyu Song, Jinpeng Guo, Xinhui Han, and Wei Zou of Beijing University and Thorsten Holz of Mannheim University have written an excellent study of the Chinese underground economy titled Studying Malicious Websites and the Underground Economy on the Chinese Web. Malicious software (malware) has become much more than a nuisance. Hacking has [...]
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Searching Other People’s Mail with Baidu

vietjim — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 07:21:12 -0600

An odd story from the Shanghai Morning Post, via Pacific Epoch:Baidu (Nasdaq: BIDU) and Chinese domain name registrar HiChina (www.net.cn) have been sued by a Hangzhou lawyer surnamed Guo for the publication of personal email content, reports Shanghai Morning Post. Guo sued for one million Yuan in emotional damages and 1,000 Yuan in economic damages [...]
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Props To Chinese Hackers

vietjim — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 00:27:31 -0600

The South China Morning Post reports on a speech by security smartypants Bruce Schneier:Central government agencies, banks and companies should reinforce their computer security systems to fend off increasingly harmful international hacking activity, warned BT Counterpane network security specialist and chief technology officer Bruce Schneier.What does he see as the biggest security problem in the [...]
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Rising Signs Security Promotion With Taobao

vietjim — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 01:15:34 -0600

Shanghai Daily reports:CHINA’S No. 1 anti-virus software company has teamed up with the country’s biggest online auction Website to provide about 40 million online traders a more reliable and secure platform, the companies said yesterday.…Taobao’s users can download and use Rising’s 2008 beta anti-virus software for free for three months. Taobao’s Wangwang accounts have been [...]
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