February 27, 2009 - We recently read an interesting story from MSNBC's "The Red Tape Chronicles" regarding an emerging Social Networking scam.(There's also video.)The victim of the scam had his Facebook account hacked. The attacker then targeted his (continue reading...) Read more
February 27, 2009 - In the last days we have received a good number of new variants of rogue fake codec. That’s why we propose you a little game that consists in finding the differences between the images: (continue reading...) Read more
February 27, 2009 - Recently, we published the latest bulletin about the steep increase of Banker Trojans. Today we have massive amounts of malware circulating the Web and most of them are Financial/Identity Theft related. See the report: hereThe increase (continue reading...) Read more
February 27, 2009 - Adi Sharabani, manager of our own IBM Rational Security Group, gave a keynote presentation on the subject of Active Man in the Middle attacks at the recent OWASP AU conference that was held yesterday. With an Active (continue reading...) Read more
February 26, 2009 - In a second attack, extremely reminiscent of the one that took place this weekend, Facebook users have once again been victimized by cybercriminals. Reports started surfacing this afternoon of yet another rogue Facebook application posting notifications to user profiles (continue reading...) Read more
February 26, 2009 - A few weeks ago we talked about cyber-criminals using Digg.com to spread malware. Today we see that the very same group responsible for the Digg.com incident was using the same tactic on YouTube through the (continue reading...) Read more
February 26, 2009 - Next Tuesday's Microsoft Update notification has been released. The details are in Microsoft's Security Bulletin Advance Notification.Critical fixes for Internet Explorer 7 and Exchange are coming: (continue reading...) Read more
February 26, 2009 - UK Justice Secretary Jack Straw had his web-based email account compromised last Thursday. Jack Straw, former Home Secretary, used a Hotmail account as his sole public email address. Figure 1. Jack Straw’s contact information from http://www.jackstrawmp.org.uk/contactus.asp In a (continue reading...) Read more
February 26, 2009 - Over the weekend, an application of extremely dubious intent was released on Facebook. Called “The Error Check System“, this said application appears to be non-destructive, but spread very quickly and very widely and could in the process have collected (continue reading...) Read more
February 25, 2009 - I am pissed off. I am hurt. I built a big part of the Check Point product and to see what a bunch of jerks have done to that company really hurts. Check out “Check Point Revolutionizes Security (continue reading...) Read more
February 25, 2009 - Some days ago we talked about how old infection techniques had emerged and how malware with economic goals had been combined with traditional viruses. Today, we have come across an interesting case with regard to (continue reading...) Read more
February 25, 2009 - Xbox Live users, specifically winning players, are being targeted by hackers. Researchers believe that the attacks are done so other Xbox Live users could get back at the players who beat them in a game. A BBC report (continue reading...) Read more
February 25, 2009 - The Gmail downtime experienced today may have caused a nasty ruckus by frustrated users, but unknown to these users is an issue bigger than not being able to access email messages. In the midst (continue reading...) Read more
February 25, 2009 - There have been some concerns over whether another new Conficker variant (DOWNAD for Trend Micro) has been released or not. Recall that in January, we have witnessed cybercriminals update WORM_DOWNAD.A’s routines (continue reading...) Read more
February 25, 2009 - Cybercriminals are actively taking advantage of another vulnerability, this time in Microsoft Office Excel. This is the third threat in less than two weeks that featured exploits. Exploit codes on IE7 and PDF bugs were discovered (continue reading...) Read more
February 25, 2009 - At about 11pm GMT last night, 24th Feb, I heard people complaining that they were being sent unsolicited instant messages from their friends over a number of networks including Facebook, Google Chat, and AOL Instant Messenger. The messages weren’t sent by (continue reading...) Read more
February 25, 2009 - Our Downadup sinkhole logged 1.9 million unique IP addresses yesterday; our last reported count was just over one million.Now, this doesn't necessarily reflect a growth in infections. Our sinkhole has been monitoring a greater number (continue reading...) Read more
February 25, 2009 - A new mobile phone application, Google Latitude, was introduced yesterday. It's an interesting new addition to Google Maps.According to Google, with Latitude you can: • See where your friends are and what they are up (continue reading...) Read more
February 24, 2009 - Hello, Bill here, I wanted to let you know that we have just posted (continue reading...) Read more
February 23, 2009 - Websense Security Labs™ ThreatSeeker™ Network has discovered that the eWeek.com Web site is serving malicious advertisements (malvertisements) to visitors. Update 2/24/09 - eWeek has informed us that the problem has been rectified. We have verified that the Web site is (continue reading...) Read more