December 14, 2009 - As outlined in our recent report Mapping the Mal Web, the People’s Republic of China’s top-level domain (.cn) is currently one of the riskiest domain names to surf due to numerous malware downloads and other risky sites. (continue reading...) Read more
December 14, 2009 - The United States is still a safe haven for spammers. With U.S. anti-spam legislation doing very little to thwart spammers and the McColo takedown having only a short-term effect, we have found that due to low-cost and reliable hosting and (continue reading...) Read more
December 14, 2009 - Posted on behalf of Paul Wood, MessageLabs Intelligence Senior Analyst, Symantec Hosted Services Without a doubt, 2009 was the Year of the Botnet. As reported in the MessageLabs Intelligence Annual Report, by the end of 2009, 83.4 percent of spam (continue reading...) Read more
December 14, 2009 - Welcome to the Tenable Network Security Podcast - Episode 16 Announcements A new blog post has been released that covers the December Microsoft Patch Tuesday roundup. In it we analyze some of the wording, details, and software vulnerabilities released (continue reading...) Read more
December 14, 2009 - Notable highlights this month include the continuing shift of the region of message origin to APJ and South America, and changes in the average size of spam messages. • The EMEA region has been firmly displaced as the primary (continue reading...) Read more
December 14, 2009 - Last week we released Metasploit 3.3.2 following on the heels of Metasploit 3.3.1. This release marked a major change to how the Meterpreter backend processed commands; instead of running each request serially, the Meterpreter now spawns a background (continue reading...) Read more
December 14, 2009 - Security icon Roger Thompson of AVG recently had a problem with his credit card while on the road for business. Because he was in London the bank (continue reading...) Read more
December 14, 2009 - No I don’t mean government policy on little men in flying saucers, our Klingon subscribers might object to that. I refer to the occasions when deciding what is malicious can become uncertain and a (continue reading...) Read more
December 14, 2009 - These days botnets are all over the news. Often we hear them described in vague, ominous terms designed to grab people’s attention. In simple terms, a botnet is a group of computers networked together running a piece of malicious software (continue reading...) Read more
December 14, 2009 - What’s the best way to distract an online gamer while you drop some undesirable files onto their system? We saw what’s probably a pretty effective method today in Troj/Lneage-A. This particular Trojan leaves the user (continue reading...) Read more
December 14, 2009 - Following the latest Captcha techniques used by the W32/Koobface worm, it seems that malware authors have turned to Santa for help to deliver the nasty surprise which awaits Facebook users. The infection drops other Trojans, such as FakeAlert, (continue reading...) Read more
December 13, 2009 - We've received a sample of a malicious iPhone worm with botnet functionality.Like the Ikee worm, it only affects Jailbroken iPhones which have SSH installed and have not changed the default password.This one connects (continue reading...) Read more
December 13, 2009 - F-Secure is organizing the next CARO Technical Workshop. It will be held in the end of May in Helsinki, Finland. Previous workshops have been in Iceland, The Netherlands and Hungary.Call for Papers is open. We're looking (continue reading...) Read more
December 13, 2009 - The AVAR 2009 Conference was held in the historical city of Kyoto, Japan from November 5. As this year's trend is cloud computing, fake antivirus software and massive PDF file attacks, the cloud and PDF topics were covered in (continue reading...) Read more
December 13, 2009 - Despite talk of Tiger Woods’ sponsors “limiting his role” in their advertising campaigns, he is still very much hot stuff when it comes to search engine queries which means he’s still a viable target for the malware writers. We can see (continue reading...) Read more
December 12, 2009 - Pavel Valkovich of Sherman Oaks, CA has pleaded guilty to solicitation of murder, admitting that he attempted to hire hitmen to kill witnesses working with Federal authorities in their investigation of Valkovich's ID theft activities and subsequent crimes.According to (continue reading...) Read more
December 12, 2009 - The PandaLabs blog has a screen shot of an interesting development in rogue anti-virus: One that has been optimized to look like it's part of Windows 7.The program is an exact replica of the Windows 7 Explorer shell program. (continue reading...) Read more
December 11, 2009 - I have a set of keywords registered with Google Alerts that result in a notification whenever they show up in a new posting. This helps me keep track of some particular topics of interest. One of them popped up recently (continue reading...) Read more
December 11, 2009 - Hello again. This is Jerry Bryant letting you know that the questions and answers from the December 2009 security bulletin webcast have now been posted here. There is one question that I wanted to provide a little more (continue reading...) Read more
December 11, 2009 - “All I want for Christmas is … a zbot.exe”. If you are too cheerfully ignorant when opening e-cards this holiday season, that’s just what you’ll end up with. Be especially careful when you receive messages from those close personal contacts of (continue reading...) Read more