October 28, 2009 - Facebook users are once again under attack. A new variant of Bredolab Trojan is spreading through spam email messages appearing to come from Facebook. The messages pretend to come from the “The (continue reading...) Read more
October 28, 2009 - Windows/Mac/Linux: Opera's released a 10.01 update for its speedy little browser, fixing a bunch of little niggling problems, boosting its security, and otherwise improving the red-hued app. Like Firefox, Opera has (continue reading...) Read more
October 28, 2009 - As I reported yesterday, Twitter suddenly removed my account without explanation.They have now unsuspended the account. You can visit it here.I also received this explanation from Twitter last night: I've unsuspended (continue reading...) Read more
October 28, 2009 - A new spam campaign that purports to be from Facebook is making rounds today. It bears the subject, “Facebook Password Reset Confirmation,” and informs users that their passwords have been changed for security purposes. It then asks them to open (continue reading...) Read more
October 27, 2009 - Trend Micro researchers recently found spam emails fashioned to come from Federal Insurance Deposit Corporation (FDIC). The email message informs users that they should visit the “official” FDIC’s website (provided in the email) to check their Deposit Insurance Coverage. (continue reading...) Read more
October 27, 2009 - Cyber criminals behind the Rogueware epidemic have been hard at work in poisoning search results to increase traffic to their campaign sites. Today, we identified a new Blackhat SEO campaign, which is currently targeting Halloween related keywords aggressively. While studying (continue reading...) Read more
October 27, 2009 - There is no shortage of advice of ways to try and prevent a data breach. But if it happens to you, do you have a plan of precisely what to do next? Very few retailers do.Before we delve into what (continue reading...) Read more
October 27, 2009 - Instant degree spam attacks have become one of the most regular attacks monitored in recent months. In an earlier blog post we listed the top five degrees offered by spammers. The messages guided users to online degree sites where (continue reading...) Read more
October 27, 2009 - Chinese spammers are very adaptive to new Internet social mediums that might attract recipients’ interests in order to get Web hits. Spammers have done their research on popular social networking activities and living habits, thus setting up spam traps for (continue reading...) Read more
October 27, 2009 - Last year, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) temporarily banned the use of thumb drives and other removable storage devices because viruses, worms and malware were uploaded to their network. Think about it. Thumb drives – (continue reading...) Read more
October 27, 2009 - This post is made on behalf of my colleague Mathew Nisbet, Malware Data Analyst The Bredolab Trojan has been seen “in the wild” for a long time, but the people behind it constantly change the subjects and format of the e-mails (continue reading...) Read more
October 27, 2009 - I’m writing this blog to demonstrate how the bad guys are getting better each day–or not, depending of your point of view. Once again our topic is Brazilian malware authors. Yes, the dumb ones I keep running up against. One (continue reading...) Read more
October 27, 2009 - As a follow up to last week’s post regarding Mariposa infection research, Yamata Li of the Palo Alto Networks Threat Research Team has developed a Wireshark plugin that will allow you to view obfuscated pcaps of traffic from a Mariposa (continue reading...) Read more
October 27, 2009 - Callpod Keeper by Callpod.com is a password and information privacy security software program designed to run on desktop computers as well as mobile devices such as the iPhone. With synchronization between devices, it's possible to have ... (continue reading...) Read more
October 27, 2009 - The SEC has not traditionally taken direct action on information security issues that are unrelated to the filings of publicly traded companies (by contrast other regulatory bodies like the FTC have been fining companies for bad information ... To technically require (continue reading...) Read more
October 27, 2009 - Security Response is aware of a new round of spam replacing old DHL and UPS themes in an attempt to spread Trojan.Bredolab. Taking a Closer Look at Trojan.Bredolab Bredolab Delivers More Parcels and Cash This time the email (continue reading...) Read more
October 27, 2009 - I recently worked with a customer who asked for advice on the following “virus” events: They were seeing “virus” traffic more or less continually. If you (continue reading...) Read more
October 26, 2009 - Ed Skoudis gave an interesting keynote speech (available here, PDF) at the Hack in the Box conference held in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. The talk included a section on cyberwar (continue reading...) Read more
October 26, 2009 - ... enought now but lastly a few more questions we can think of. what languages are used for writing software on smartcards? java? any more? any language goes? when virgin sends me my nagra3 card they have already written my (continue reading...) Read more
October 26, 2009 - The recovery is expected to vary widely by region (ranging from -2.0 to +2.0) in 2010, and the information management software opportunity is expected to grow twice that in “growth” countries versus the G7. ... And there are big picture trends (continue reading...) Read more