Many people use Monster.com to look for JOBS. According to an article in the BBC, monster.com suffered an online attack that led to personal data belonging to hundreds of thousands of users be uploaded to a remote server. Remember that this data contains information that can be used for phishing attacks against you. If you have an account with monster.com, be aware of phishing emails. One scenario can be of a company emailing you about a certain job and is asking for more information to be emailed back to them. DO THE RESEARCH FIRST. Make sure the company is legitimate. Remember, never give your information over email to anyone.

Another very important scenario is if you get an email from monster.com asking you to download a Job seeker tool; DO NOT DOWNLOAD IT. According to Symantec, this such tool can encrypt all your data on you computer and then leave a ransom note asking for something in return for the decryption of you files. Once again be careful and be aware.

Related Information: Symantec Security Response Weblog: A Monster Trojan

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Just about everyone today has their own digital music collection. I have about 20 plus GB of music. I like to collect high quality music. But what if all your music collection that you have been collecting for years gets deleted? You may also ask how and why someone would want to delete your music. A newly discovered worm W32.Deletemusic deletes all .mp3’s from the compromised computer. The risk level is low, but can be devastating to the music collectors if infected. Removal instructions can be found on the web. This type of worm is not the first of its kind.  Nopir-B  and Erazer also tried to delete .mp3’s and other music/movie file formats. Nopir-B poses as a DVD copying software. Erazer-A targets peer-to-peer folders and disguises itself with names such as games.exe and officecrack.exe. It seems to me that these trojans are written by the music companies in respose to piracy. Sophos‘ senior technology consaltant Graham Cluley, states “The Erazer Trojan targets internet users it believes are involved in piracy, but fails to discriminate between the true criminals and those who may have MP3 music files or home movies that they have created themselves. Malware is not the way to fight internet piracy.” What do you think?

Using Gmail on your laptop on a wireless connection can be proved to be insecure. Robert Graham, CEO of errata security, demonstrated how easily this can be done. During the Black Hat security convention,  Graham did a live demonstration on a journalist in the audience. This was done by capturing cookies, then cloning them into his browser. Related Article also at slashdot.Capturing the cookiesSame information on both laptops

Last Saturday I was sitting at work, when I started getting alot of emails from our IT Virus Notification Team. First it started with 1 then  more and more. I was seeing how fast it was replicating. I did a little research on this tojan and it turns out that it is a fairly new trojan. This trojan “drops a file” called TROJ_ROOTKIT.EA. I included a picture diagram showing how this trojon behaves.

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