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Michael Jackson death malware

Michael Jackson death malware is already spreading according to the latest news.

RMS – Remote Malware Scanner

I present to you, RMS – Remote Malware Scanner.
What is it? It’s a online tool that scans for possible malicious content inside the source code of a specific web page. It might give you false results, specially because it searches for .js files, iframes, etc… but also for specific and existent malware code.
You can check [...]

Want an IT job? Code a Worm

Almost everyone read that the author of the worm that targetted Twitter, Michael Mooney, had two proposals to work in large IT companies, after crashing Tweet-fest last week. Does crime really pays?
9 years ago, another Michael aka Mafiaboy, also committed the crime of attacking huge sites like yahoo, ebay, cnn, amazon, and others and now [...]

Zombie macs a true reality?

It seems that Symantec malware researchers found two variants of some kind of malicious code, OSX.Iservice and OSX.Iservice.B, inside pirated copies of Apple’s iWork 09 and Adobe Photoshop CS4. According to them, these would be used to conduct Denial of Service attacks – being the first attempt to create a botnet for Mac OS X.
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