December 20, 2009 - November 30th is World Computer Security Day. In conjunction with the event, the Forum of Incidence Response and Security Teams (FIRST) held a Technical Colloquium in Kuala Lumpur, which a few Analysts from our KUL Response Lab (continue reading...) Read more
December 20, 2009 - Well, it didn’t take long for the Christmas E-Card scams to start. Recently we have seen email messages pretending to be from Hallmark, suggesting that you have received an E-card from a friend. The complete email message looks like this: You have recieved (continue reading...) Read more
December 20, 2009 - Websense Security Labs™ ThreatSeeker™ Network has discovered that Google top searches on "Brittany Murphy death" will return rogue AV Web sites. The Hollywood actress died suddenly during the weekend. Users will be redirected to malicious domains if they click (continue reading...) Read more
December 18, 2009 - As was announced on Dec 11th, CNNIC (China Internet Network Information Center) now requires a “formal paper based application material when making the online application to the registrar.” The motivation behind this seems more related to cracking down on porn (continue reading...) Read more
December 18, 2009 - Twitter, one of the Internets most popular social networking sites, has been hacked and defaced by a group claiming to be an "Iranian Cyber Army" as of the 17th at 9:50PM PST. According to our records, the site was taken (continue reading...) Read more
December 18, 2009 - European antivirus testing lab AV-Comparatives.org today released the results of an extensive dynamic test covering 15 security suites. Coming hot on the heels of the real-world malware protection (continue reading...) Read more
December 18, 2009 - If you don't know, as of today, Facebook will automatically start plunging the Earth into the Sun. To change this option, go to Settings --> Planetary Settings --> Trajectory then UN-CLICK the (continue reading...) Read more
December 18, 2009 - Customers need independent testing and review of network solutions in order to make intelligent decisions when building infrastructures. This can be doubly important when network security is at stake. NSS Labs just raised the bar for independent, (continue reading...) Read more
December 18, 2009 - Cisco has disclosed that multiple vulnerabilities in their WebEx Recording Format (WRF) Player could allow a remote attacker to take control of a user's computer. The vulnerability was disclosed to Cisco by (continue reading...) Read more
December 18, 2009 - Last night, Twitter was hijacked by the "Iranian Cyber Army"; while there've been no confirmed password leaks or anything of the sort, now seems to us like a great time to change (continue reading...) Read more
December 18, 2009 - Spammers are recycling their old spamming methods after more than two years. Symantec reported an .mp3 version of pump-and-dump stock spam back in October 2007. In this recent spam attack, a small .mp3 file promoting a meds domain is (continue reading...) Read more
December 18, 2009 - Those looking to see the latest 3D blockbuster movie, The Avatar, on the cheap will have to take great care in what they search for. We have become aware of at least one site that has been rigged to redirect (continue reading...) Read more
December 18, 2009 - Twitter was disrupted Thursday night by attackers who hacked Twitter’s domain name servers and rerouted Twitter traffic as well as posting their own banner on the micro-blogging services page. The service returned to normal by Friday morning.Technology blog Mashable, attributed (continue reading...) Read more
December 18, 2009 - Our researcher Adam Thomas came across a new piece of ransomware today, an encryption trojan via our old "friends" iframedollars. It encrypts the files on your hard drive very rapidly if you’re unfortunate enough to be victimized by it. (continue reading...) Read more
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December 18, 2009 - Laptop computers captured from insurgents in Iraq contained software that enabled them to intercept video feeds from the unmanned drones that are seeing expanded use in the Middle East, according to the New York Times.The drones, used by (continue reading...) Read more
December 18, 2009 - Digital Inspiration is an oft-linked blog here at Lifehacker, and its author is a very savvy digital worker. That said, Amit Agarwal learned a lot about safety precautions when both his Gmail and Google Apps (continue reading...) Read more
December 18, 2009 - Thanks to Mikko Hypponen of F-Secure for pointing out on Twitter a YouTube video with an ad for and demo of the Zeus Trojan. Better watch it before YouTube takes (continue reading...) Read more
December 18, 2009 - Twitter's DNS records were hijacked for a time last night and the site redirected users to a site (screen shot nearby, click (continue reading...) Read more
December 18, 2009 - Old trends never die, they just resurface from time to time. Case in point, spammed messages that have .MP3 file attachments, which were last seen two years ago, made their presence felt once again today. Trend Micro researchers were alerted to the discovery of (continue reading...) Read more