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Stop malwares using device control: a real life experience

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If your one of those administrators who hardly try to keep their networks clean and prevent the next malware from infecting their systems, this is definitely for you…

Spending thousands of dollars on security solutions to protect the enterprise from the outside alone is an outdated concept. If you want to ask anyone works in the security arena? What are the main sources of malwares today? He’ll probably answer this: e-mail spam, websites, and removable drives.

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http://extremesecurity.blogspot.com/2008/06/stop-malwares-using-device-control-real.html

Use default password, get hijacked

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As the title says, use default password on your wireless/wired routers and wait for the new variant of the "Zlob" trojan to infect some machines, then try every default router username/password combinations from www.routerpassword.com. Or even check this text file, search for your current user/pass to make sure they are not in the list. http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/zlobpass.txt

Zlob (or as known DNSChanger) will modify the DNS settings to use other rogue DNS servers.

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http://extremesecurity.blogspot.com/2008/06/use-default-password-get-hijacked.html

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