A brief case study of California Casualty’s decision to ditch its Cisco MARS security box in favor of a less expensive and more comprehensive product from AccelOps. View full post on Network World on Security
04 June 2010
Websense® Security Labs™ ThreatSeeker™ Network has detected a spam posing as a Twitter Password Reset Notification. We have seen about 55,000 instances of this malicious spam email so far. The spam contains a link to a compromised Web site that, when clicked or pasted into the browser, prompts the user to download a malicious executable named [...]
04 June 2010
Microsoft has issued an advance notification for patch Tuesday next week. There will be: – Six bulletins affecting Windows (two critical, four important) – Two affecting Microsoft Office (important) – One affecting Windows and office (important) – One affecting Internet Explorer (critical) Jerry Bryant, Group Manager of Response Communications also said Microsoft will be acting [...]
04 June 2010
Buster Sandbox Analyzer 1.23 has been released. Actually the tool is being hosted here: http://bsa.isoftware.nl Version 1.23 introduces the automatic malware analysis mode. This mode allows the analysis of multiple files without any user intervention. New version also adds other features like the digital signature verification. The tool can be downloaded directly from: http://bsa.isoftware.nl/bsa.rar Buster [...]
04 June 2010
On Tuesday, Mac security firm Intego blogged about their discovery of Mac based Spyware which they dubbed OSX/OpinionSpy. To quote Intego: “OSX/OpinionSpy is installed by a number of applications and screen savers that are distributed on sites such as MacUpdate, VersionTracker and Softpedia.” Back in March we said that Macs are generally safer but that [...]
04 June 2010
I’m presenting you a little puzzle… The prize is a Windows 7 Ultimate license. Unless you don’t care for Windows, then you get a sticker The puzzle contains a text. Find it and post it in a comment to this post. You don’t have to be the first with the correct text to win. This [...]
04 June 2010
If you haven’t been living under a rock, you would of heard that webmail security company “StrongWebmail” issued a $10,000 hacking challenge to prove the security of their product. If any hacker could get into the CEO’s email account and read the task list off his exchange calendar they would win $10,000. To make it [...]
04 June 2010
Microsoft will issue 10 updates, three labeled as ‘critical,’ to fix 34 vulnerabilities in multiple versions of Windows, Internet Explorer, Office and SharePoint. View full post on Computerworld Security News
04 June 2010
Yet another Anonymous coward decided to comment, this time in response to my previous article on fake diplomas from December 2007: Fake Diplomas Are Illegal. Here was his comment (dollars to donuts it’s a man.): Anonymous said… Whomever made this post, isn’t that bright!!! Is it illegal to pretend to earn credentials that you didn’t, [...]
04 June 2010
Security researchers today said Facebook’s new requirement that developers link legitimate accounts to their software won’t stop rogue applications from infecting its users with adware. View full post on Computerworld Security News
04 June 2010
I’ve been looking for an acronym for our clearing house site. First I used MDL (MalwareDiariesList), but it’s too similar to MalwareDomainList.com (the REAL MDL that is). How about Paretologic’s MUCH (Malicious URL Clearing House)? Well, we’ll see. Anyhow, malware researchers looking for the latest threats may be interested in joining our site for free [...]
04 June 2010
tcpdump is one of those utilities we take for granted. Ask in any networking class, and more or less everybody has used it before and knows how to use it. tcpdump was first written in 1987 as a research project. Since then, the library behind it (libpcap)and the tool itself have been ported to more [...]
04 June 2010
Money mule View full post on Securelist / All Updates
04 June 2010
Christopher Null – Facebook users are being pounded by “clickjacking” attacks that have been affecting the site at unusually heavy levels for weeks. View full post on Yahoo! News: Security News
04 June 2010
Panda Security blazed new trails in PC security when it launched its free cloud-based antivirus protection last year. Now, Panda Security is expanding the protection provided in the free version, and adding a Pro Edition with additional features and capabilities. Panda Cloud Antivirus delivers malware protection that small and medium businesses need, and the price [...]
04 June 2010
PC Magazine – The latest rage in criminal malware in Russia and parts of Asia is the SMS blocker, which locks your PC until you send an SMS text message to a premium number to unlock it. View full post on Yahoo! News: Security News
04 June 2010
Microsoft has released their advance notification for the June Patch Tuesday next week. They will be releasing 10 security bulletins and patches to address the 34 vulnerabilities disclosed in them. It’s a fairly heavy Patch Tuesday for Microsoft. 6 of the bulletins affect various versions of Windows; 2 of those have a maximum severity of [...]
04 June 2010
Panda Security has bolstered the features available in its free antivirus product, Cloud Antivirus, adding a new behavioural engine and Windows autorun control. View full post on Network World on Security
04 June 2010
Remember the massive blackhat SEO campaign using U.S Federal Forms themed keywords, which was extensively profiled in August, 2009? Blackhat SEO Campaign Hijacks U.S Federal Form Keywords, Serves Scareware U.S Federal Forms Blackhat SEO Themed Scareware Campaign Expanding Dissecting the Ongoing U.S Federal Forms Themed Blackhat SEO Campaign Koobface-Friendly Riccom LTD – AS29550 – (Finally) [...]
04 June 2010
Cambridge scientists have come up with a simple way to generate the entangled photons needed by quantum computers using a cheap light emitting diode (LED) powered by electrical voltage. View full post on Network World on Security
04 June 2010
For the past three days the most vigorously spammed phishing site in the UAB Spam Data Mine was for American Express. Here’s a sample of the spam message . . . Dear American Express customer, A newly revised American Express Online Form has been issued by the American Express Customer Care Team. Please complete this [...]
04 June 2010
We have discussed previously that malware writers and cybercriminals read the same news that the rest of us do. They use the same tools as we do and go to the same sites we go to as well. Over the last several years we have seen cybercriminals and malware writers consistently use high-impact news events [...]
04 June 2010
There’s a new game available for download on the internet called Loose/Loose. It has the look and feel of the arcade classics from the 80s like Space Invaders and Missile Command. The following snapshot shows a lone silver airship at the bottom of the screen battling multicolored alien ships descending down on him: But wait…if [...]
04 June 2010
Probably the biggest computer threats nowadays are the Exploits. Exploits seek out the vulnerabilities of an application to launch their malicious activities. Cyber criminals target popular applications such as Shockwave Flash and Adobe Acrobat PDF to keep the chances high that a user's computer is vulnerable. In this blog we will examine a Flash exploit [...]
04 June 2010
