Friday, February 10, 2012
Security
Error 404--Not Found |
From RFC 2068 Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1:10.4.5 404 Not FoundThe server has not found anything matching the Request-URI. No indication is given of whether the condition is temporary or permanent. If the server does not wish to make this information available to the client, the status code 403 (Forbidden) can be used instead. The 410 (Gone) status code SHOULD be used if the server knows, through some internally configurable mechanism, that an old resource is permanently unavailable and has no forwarding address. |
Ransomware, plus Slobodan Milosevic and viruses
A virus that encrypts documents and demands a ransom to de-crypt them has been spotted making its way slowly across the Internet. Plus, another virus seeks to exploit the death of Slobodan Milosevic to fool users into opening a malicious attachment.
The trojan horse is known as "ransomware" because of its demand for money--in this case $300 to be placed in an account at the e-gold money-transfer site in exchange for a password to access the information.
At least one anti-virus vendor, Sophos, has analyzed the malicious code and found a way to extract the password.
Another threat making the rounds is a spam message claiming to have a photo containing secret evidence about the death of former Yugoslav president and suspected war criminal Slobodan Milosevic, who died suddenly last Saturday, prompting an investigation. But opening the attchment simply spreads the virus.
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