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A compilation of the latest information about viruses and worms, security issues and patches to rectify the same

Eclipse spam

At some time or the other, we have been bombarded with spam of various kinds. With times, spammers change their tactics and attack lines. Recently Websense Security Labs discovered a run of spam that attempts to dupe users into downloading and installing a video of the solar eclipse. In past, we have seen similar blocks of spam purporting to contain videos of movie stars, singers, and other entertainers. If users access any of the various Web sites hosting the malicious code, and attempt to view the video, they are infected with an information-stealing Trojan horse. There is no exploit code hosted on the sites. Users are prompted to confirm that they want to run the code.

Threat: mistyped e-mail

According to researchers, it seems that some companies and political organizations should have put some more efforts into registering mis-typed versions of their primary domain. The need of that is not only to protect visitors to their Web sites but also to prevent mis-addressed e-mail from falling into the wrong hands.

Typosquatting is the registering of common misspellings of domain names which could be used not only by the rivals in election campaigns but also by competing companies as means of advertising to their rivals’ customers.