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| 3/02/10 — What will the next decade bring in the information security world? |
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What will the next decade bring? Future predictions on IT security, including thoughts from eSoft CTO Patrick Walsh.
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| 3/02/10 — Hotmail Snag Causes Infection on Innumerable Computers |
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Thoughts on the Hotmail outage and Blackhat SEO poisoning as reported by eSoft on the Threat Center Live Blog.
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| 2/22/10 — ‘Super Bowl 2010’ Search Results Lead to Poisonous Websites |
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Internet security researchers warn that with the '2010 Super Bowl' tournament fast approaching and ardent supporters searching for the event's latest information online, cyber criminals have begun taking advantage of the situation.
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| 2/18/10 — Targeted Irs E-Mail Scam Chooses Organizations |
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eSoft is warning consumers to remain vigilant of an ongoing phishing scam. Appearing similar to the ordinary Internal Revenue Service e-mail scam, the recent malicious campaign, however, has a fresh twist.
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| 2/17/10 — Hotmail outage leads to contaminated search results |
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Yesterday’s outage of Windows Live caused a disruption in the web-based Hotmail email service. This presented a golden opportunity for online crooks to poison search results related to the incident.
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| 2/09/10 — Mozilla Firefox hit by malware add-ons |
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Zero Day blog describes recent threats to the Firefox browser including fake download pages discovered by eSoft.
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| 2/08/10 — IRS phishing scam targets corporate email |
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Security firm eSoft is warning clients about an IRS phishing con that is specifically targeting businesses and corporate email accounts.
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| 2/08/10 — Fake Firefox Update Spreads Spyware |
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PC World covers the latest threat from eSoft's Threat Center Live blog.
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| 2/05/10 — Hackers use fake Firefox update to spread toolbar |
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Security vendor eSoft said in a warning that the reprised Hotbar app, run as of May last year by a new entity called Pinball Corp, is being fed to users via a fake but convincing Firefox update page.
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| 2/05/10 — Fake Firefox update spreads unwanted app |
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According to a warning put out by eSoft, the reprised Hotbar app, run as of May last year by a new entity called Pinball Corp, is being fed to users via a fake but convincing Firefox update page.
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| 2/05/10 — Fake Firefox updates with adware in circulation |
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Cyber criminals are trying to exploit the release of Firefox 3.6. The alleged update pages are professionally designed in part. The counterfeit versions contain malware and adware.
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| 2/05/10 — Phony Firefox update comes with Hotbar adware |
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Sunbelt digs into the Firefox threat reveals more information on the Hotbar and Pinball affiliate network.
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| 2/05/10 — Fake Firefox Update Spreads Unwanted App |
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CIO covers the latest threat blog from eSoft.
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| 2/05/10 — Fake Download Site Offers Firefox as Bait |
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A fake download site has been created for the Firefox browser, which provides users with contaminated software.
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| 2/04/10 — Fake Firefox update spreads unwanted app |
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The successor program to the notorious Zango spyware Toolbar is being used to target users of Mozilla's Firefox, as noted in the eSoft Threat Center blog.
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| 2/04/10 — Are you sure you’ve installed the right Firefox 3.6? You may have a malware |
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Are you sure you’ve installed the right Firefox 3.6? You may have a malware
Users who were too enthusiastic about getting the latest version of Mozilla Firefox browser were tricked by adware slingers who directed them to the fake website to download bogus software.
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| 2/04/10 — Fake Firefox update is spyware |
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ID Theft Protect covers the eSoft's latest threat in "News and Reviews".
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| 2/03/10 — Fake Firefox update spreads unwanted app |
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TechWorld reports on eSoft blog: The successor program to the notorious Zango spyware Toolbar is being used to target users of Mozilla's Firefox with fake browser updates, a security company has alleged.
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| 2/03/10 — Fake Firefox site pushing out adware |
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v3.co.uk reports on eSoft's recent blog entry: Security experts are warning that adware and spyware pushers are trying to bundle their wares into the latest version of Firefox in order to trick users into downloading the software.
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| 2/03/10 — Fake Firefox site bundles undead adware |
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The Register reports on eSoft's latest news: Adware slingers have taken advantage of the buzz around the latest version of Firefox to establish a fake browser download site.
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| 1/26/10 — eSoft highlighted in Infosecurity roundup |
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Infosecurity magazine highlighted eSoft in its recent security roundup.
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| 1/13/10 — Boeing 787 Maiden Flight Search Results Poisoned |
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As Boeing 787 Dreamliner jet completes its much hyped first flight on December 15, 2009, web enthusiasts hit Internet to find related news articles and videos. This has given yet another opportunity to blackhat hackers to poison Google search results.
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| 12/24/09 — v3.co.uk Reports on eSoft's Latest Blog |
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"Security firm eSoft warns blogging platform is being used to help promote fake pharmaceutical sites."
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| 12/23/09 — Pharma link spammers invade Live Space |
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The Register reports on eSoft's research and discoveries surrounding this emerging technique being used by scammers.
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| 12/21/09 — Security News Blog Reports on 1.5m Sites eSoft Discovered Compromised |
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The eSoft Threat Prevention Team has uncovered an additional 1.5 million sites associated with the newest series of SQL injection attacks.
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| 12/16/09 — TechWorld reports on eSoft's blog about recently poisoned search results |
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"A good example from the last 24 hours is the first test flight of the Boeing 787 airliner, the Google video searches for which were infested with rogue links to malware within minutes of the event itself, according to security company, eSoft."
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| 12/14/09 — InfoSecurity Reports on eSoft's Discovery of 1.5m hacked websites |
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Another 1.5 million websites associated with the newest series of SQL injection attacks have been found by network security specialist eSoft.
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| 12/11/09 — eSoft InstaGate 604 Wins Government Computer News' Product of the Year Award |
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eSoft's InstaGate, which earlier this year won GCN's coveted Reviewer's Choice award, has now received the highest honor and won GCN's Product of the Year Award picked over hundreds of products and named as part of "The Great 8 Products of 2009."
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| 11/23/09 — Scareware Taints Chromium OS Searches |
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Blackhats quickly take advantage of Google Chromium OS announcement, poisoning search results to spread scareware.
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| 11/23/09 — Blackhats Unleash Fake Blog Campaign Spreading Rogue AV |
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In September, eSoft reported as many as 720000 compromised sites hosting fake blog pages and being used to distribute rogue anti-virus programmes.
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| 11/23/09 — Google hoodwinked into pushing Chrome OS scareware |
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"Rogue anti-virus scammers have tainted search results for Chromium OS - the open source version of Google's Chrome OS - in a bid to expose surfers hunting the web operating system to a fake anti-virus scan scam instead."
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| 11/20/09 — Rogue blogs pollute Google results |
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eSoft Threat Prevention research cited in SEO attacks targeting Google search
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| 11/20/09 — Scareware tool dumps smut on Windows PCs |
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The Register reports on scareware, citing a blog posted by the eSoft Threat Prevention Team. Over 800,000 web pages detected in rogue anti-virus distribution campaign.
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| 11/20/09 — Web Saftey - Learning in a Web 2.0 World |
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eSoft's CTO Patrick Walsh explores the topic of web safety in schools. The article illustrates a number of security issues associated with Web 2.0, and offers solutions to mitigate these threats.
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| 10/23/09 — Security Park reports on increase in compromised sports sites |
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eSoft, Inc. has announced that as the American football and hockey seasons get underway and baseball heads into the playoffs, the company’s Threat Prevention Team has noticed a startling increase in the number of compromised sports websites.
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| 10/14/09 — New Malware Sites Targeting Google Users |
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SPAMFighter reports on eSoft research regarding the targeting of Google users in malware attacks.
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| 10/10/09 — Foiling Web App Attacks |
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Web application security is critical for every internet-facing initiative, especially in light of an unending growth of websites. Lurking among even the most popular places on the internet are dangers that proliferate as fast as the websites themselves.
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| 10/09/09 — Report: Fox Sports website compromised to serve malware |
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| 10/07/09 — Attackers Improving Search Engine Optimization to Push Rogue Security Tools |
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eSoft cited in article discussing the techniques used by hackers to poison Google and other search engines.
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| 10/07/09 — Report: Fox Sports website compromised to serve malware |
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MXLogic says, "According to eSoft, the popular Fox Sports website was compromised on a fantasy baseball page that contained a hidden iframe that retrieved content from the malicious site."
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| 10/05/09 — Increasing web threats call for web filtering says eSoft’s CTO |
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As web threats by far surpass email threats as the preferred vector of attack, eSoft’s CTO, Patrick Walsh, insists that organisations should be looking to web filtering to secure their business.
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| 9/29/09 — eSoft Blog Makes Dark Reading's Best of the Web |
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eSoft's ThreatCenter blogpost titled, "Blackhats Quickly Saturate Google With Tropical Storm Ondoy," has made Dark Reading's Best of the Web list.
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| 9/24/09 — eWeek: Exposing How Rogue Antivirus Sites Snag Victims |
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Behind the reports of rogue antivirus scams is a multi-million dollar business lining the pockets of cyber-thieves. The threats aren’t new, but they have been growing in prevalence, according to malware researchers.
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| 9/23/09 — Malicious Anti-Virus Sites Set to Scam Google Users |
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Hackers have found a way to attack high-ranking sites in the Google algorithm and embed links to malicious, fake anti-virus sites within results
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| 9/22/09 — Google users targeted by new malicious websites |
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Network security company eSoft’s threat prevention team has discovered new malware sites specifically targeting users of Windows operating system and Google.
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| 9/22/09 — Rogue AV scam targets Google users |
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An ongoing attack on Google users is sending victims to rogue anti-virus software sites, eSoft researchers said this week.
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| 8/26/09 — eSoft discovers 30,000 compromised websites |
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eSoft researchers discovered a widespread web server infection affecting 30,000 websites which have been compromised and are now hosting malicious web pages.
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| 8/20/09 — Targeting Browsers |
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SC Magazine takes a close look at the pervasive issue of browser (in)security. Includes comments from eSoft's CTO, Patrick Walsh.
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| 7/27/09 — The stormy debate on cloud computing security |
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The debate over cloud computing tends to center on one fundamental point: Is the cloud an insecure place to store data? But this is the wrong question, because the power and promise of cloud computing can be realized without ever storing data there at all. An article by eSoft's CTO, Patrick Walsh.
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