November 3, 2009 - Recently, I've been seeing phishing attacks using Web forms attached to emails making the rounds again. This type of phishing isn't so common but is used on occasion, so I want to take this opportunity to remind everyone not to (continue reading...) Read more
November 3, 2009 - It didn’t take long for spammers to change from Halloween lures to spam and malware. They’ve already moved to the Christmas season, and we have started to see emails from the Cutwail botnet that are using (continue reading...) Read more
November 3, 2009 - We have already discussed the Facebook phishing campaign. Now the scammers are using the phishing campaign not just for spamming but also for a “cocktail” attack. The scammers have targeted Facebook, telling them that the Facebook account passwords have been (continue reading...) Read more
November 3, 2009 - Threats targeting the Macintosh platform are much less common than those targeting Windows. The same can be said about video games, where Windows is the dominate platform of the two. Combining games and malware has happened before, but a Mac (continue reading...) Read more
November 3, 2009 - Today, Microsoft’s Security Intelligence Report is out, and it’s no surprise that it’s littered with fake AV/security product threats–four out of the top five threats in the United States, no less. Let me show you that with a keen eye (continue reading...) Read more
November 3, 2009 - Symantec has always recommended that personal information, especially financial information such as Social Security numbers, credit card numbers, and of course your email address must not be revealed anywhere on the Internet. Many security experts also believe that disclosing an (continue reading...) Read more
November 3, 2009 - Symantec recently reported a malicious spam campaign against Facebook, which is now accompanied by a phishing attack. These messages look like an official Facebook invite or password reset confirmation mail. If we place the cursor (continue reading...) Read more
November 3, 2009 - A few days ago, I got access to the source code of the well-known Elite Loader for free. Yes. It was published on one of the Russian underground forums. It even had a detailed description and screenshots showing how to (continue reading...) Read more
November 2, 2009 - I woke up this morning and this is what greeted me:A while back, Microsoft released the ".NET Framework Assistant" as a Firefox add-on. Today, Firefox blocked it (continue reading...) Read more
November 2, 2009 - I want to confess a bad habit of mine. I don't always review my phone bill.As I have an F-Secure provided phone, and because my personal calls are usually well within budget, I often don't review (continue reading...) Read more
November 2, 2009 - Deploying updates can be a complicated process for large organizations with nodes numbering in the tens of thousands. A good deal of testing is required before deployment to the production network can begin.So Update Tuesday often (continue reading...) Read more
November 2, 2009 - Today we released an update 976749 that addresses two issues with MS09-054 that a limited number customers reported to us through our (continue reading...) Read more
November 2, 2009 - Volume seven of the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (SIRv7) - part of Microsoft's commitment to providing an unparalleled level of security intelligence to help keep individuals and organizations better informed and to maximize security investments - was released today (continue reading...) Read more
November 2, 2009 - So, here we are, in November already. We've finished up with National Cyber Security Awareness Month — feel safer? I was talking with someone who observed that he remembered "National Computer Security Day" (started back in the late 1990s) (continue reading...) Read more
November 2, 2009 - This post is made on behalf of my colleague Nicholas Johnston On 27 October, MessageLabs Intelligence began tracking a small number of spam emails that included links to the popular online file transfer service, YouSendIt.com. In the latest examples, the (continue reading...) Read more
November 2, 2009 - Welcome to the Tenable Network Security Podcast - Episode 10 Announcements New blog post "Defeating Zombies: Five Ways To Improve Defenses" Tenable placed 270th on the Deloitte Fast 500 2009 list, Nessus was awarded a Silver "Reader's Choice" award (continue reading...) Read more
November 2, 2009 - Last week, we announced our next generation security platform designed for data center and core network deployments. The new TippingPoint N-Platform represents our efforts to provide the most comprehensive security for our customers using intrusion prevention (continue reading...) Read more
November 2, 2009 - When BREDOLAB entered the threat landscape several months ago, it was initially thought of as a common downloader (that downloads executable files) designed for malware infection only. However, Trend Micro researchers noticed a sudden increase in its activities in August 2009. (continue reading...) Read more
November 2, 2009 - Trend Micro threat analysts found spammed messages that pretended to be a letter coming from the “boss.” The messages bore the subject “get back to my office for more details” and instructed users to extract and read the letter contained in the attached (continue reading...) Read more
November 2, 2009 - With Christmas just right around the corner, spammers are already flooding users’ inboxes with unwanted email. No surprises there. Spammers are known to exploit the holidays to further their malicious causes. Just recently, Trend Micro threat analysts found another spammed message that claimed (continue reading...) Read more