July 14, 2009 - Summary of Microsoft’s monthly security bulletin release for July 2009. This month we are releasing six bulletins. Three of those affect Windows and are rated Critical. All three of those also have an Exploitability Index rating of “1” (continue reading...) Read more
July 14, 2009 - I was talking to a colleague the other day about the need to provide security to users as they surf the web … after all, Web sites have taken over as the major source* of attacks today. The discussion started (continue reading...) Read more
July 14, 2009 - In case you haven’t heard, the economy is in a slump and everyone is looking for ways to maximize their investments. Customers tell me they need security technology that allows them to conduct business (and not restrict them), while giving (continue reading...) Read more
July 14, 2009 - Last week in England Lord West (Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Security and Counter-terrorism) indicated that the UK has the ability to launch cyber-attacks. Though his interview was very thin on facts (continue reading...) Read more
July 14, 2009 - An official website of the Iranian government was compromised. A hidden Iframe tag which retrieves an obfuscated malicious scripts which exploit multiple vulnerabilities was injected into the website. Visitors of the governmental website may end up with a Trojan downloader taking (continue reading...) Read more
July 14, 2009 - It's always interesting to browse through the bait document files used in targeted attacks. These are files that have been used to infect specific individuals in different organizations in order to gain access to their computer.All (continue reading...) Read more
July 14, 2009 - Charlie Miller, a well-known security researcher who specializes in Mac and iPhone security, yesterday revealed information about a new vulnerability in iPhone that allows remote code execution via SMS. Not a lot is known about the vulnerability, which (continue reading...) Read more
July 13, 2009 - Today, Microsoft released a security advisory on active attacks in the wild using a vulnerability in Microsoft Office Web Components. Computers installed with Microsoft Office features that uses vulnerable versions of the Microsoft Office Web Components could be infected (continue reading...) Read more
July 13, 2009 - Cyber seems to be one of the buzzwords in Washington these days, with the recent botnet attacks generating a lot of extra noise. This has included at least one rather bellicose response from a US Representative who either (continue reading...) Read more
July 13, 2009 - Websense Security Labs™ ThreatSeeker™ is currently tracking exploit sites related to a new zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft Office Web Components. CVE-2009-1136 has been allocated to this vulnerability. The vulnerable component is an ActiveX object used by Internet Explorer to (continue reading...) Read more
July 13, 2009 - The Wall Street Journal reports that Beijing has delayed its mandate to have Green Dam Youth Escort filtering software installed on all new Windows computers sold in China. The deadline was originally July 1st. (continue reading...) Read more
July 13, 2009 - McAfee Avert Labs has received a new variant of the Koobface worm. Unlike the previous variants, this one spreads using Twitter by sending fake tweets. These fake tweets contain links to a video; some of (continue reading...) Read more
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July 13, 2009 - Firefox 3.5 was released yesterday. I've been waiting to try out the Private Browsing Mode, so I installed it today.Here are the privacy settings from my installation of Firefox 3.0.1. (continue reading...) Read more
July 13, 2009 - With all the talk of Michael Jackson spam and Michael Jackson malware going on, it was mildly interesting today when a Fellow in our KUL Lab received an SMS – with link – that mentioned the King of (continue reading...) Read more
July 13, 2009 - Welcome to the 2nd Panda Challenge. As promised, this will be harder. In the previous one we had more than 1 thousand downloads and just 44 right answers, let's see how this goes. Joxean has (continue reading...) Read more
July 13, 2009 - First of all, let me thank you all for having participated in this challenge. The solution to this challenge is described below:The binary was packed in UPX, and we changed a section name (continue reading...) Read more
July 12, 2009 - Our Q2 Security Threat Summary is available from: http://www.f-secure.com/2009/Video is available via our Video Channel, and also the Lab's YouTube Channel. On (continue reading...) Read more
July 10, 2009 - What do LinkedIn, Twitter, Blogging and Wikis have in common? According to this article, they are increasingly used within enterprises with a quarter of organizations actually rolling out these types of tools across all departments, up from (continue reading...) Read more
July 10, 2009 - I travel a bit as McAfee’s Cyber Mom and therefore I occasionally use Wi-Fi in the hotels in which I stay. So one night, I got into my PJ’s, crawl into bed and sign onto the hotel Wi-Fi (the (continue reading...) Read more