March 17, 2010 - Charlie Miller, the Pwn2Own contest winner for two years in a row, gives his take on Internet security. Guess what — your Mac OS is no less vulnerable than its Microsoft Windows counterpart.Windows 7 or (continue reading...) Read more
March 17, 2010 - In 2005, the European Commission embarked on a new policy framework that embraced all aspects of the “information society.” This framework, called i2010 - A European information society for growth and employment, provides the broad policy guidelines for the (continue reading...) Read more
March 16, 2010 - The internet is rife with free tools from anything to everything (almost) - from free HTML web editors to free applications to free games and so on. We’ve been in this situation before. Sometimes out of curiosity or “affluenza” (also known (continue reading...) Read more
March 16, 2010 - TrendLabs researchers recently received a report on malvertisements that appeared while a user was browsing through a popular Web-based email service. At first glance, the ads may seem like the typical Web browser nuisance. However, random ads were proven to be (continue reading...) Read more
March 16, 2010 - Earlier today, Core Security Technologies issued a security advisory for our Virtual PC (VPC) software. The advisory calls out a proof of concept where the virtual machine monitor allows memory pages above the 2GB level to be read from or (continue reading...) Read more
March 16, 2010 - Next week, we’ll kick off our fourth Pwn2Own contest at the CanSecWest security conference. We announced the rules and targets for this year’s contest last month on our DVLabs blog and have seen a fair number of registrants so (continue reading...) Read more
March 16, 2010 - For all you Facebook fans, I wanted to alert you about a trend that McAfee Labs reported on over the weekend. Have you ever noticed how there are some really cool applications on Facebook and then there are some really bad (continue reading...) Read more
March 16, 2010 - So the Chicago river is colored green, the parade marched last Saturday and I am still(!) trying to figure out what the heck this vegetarian is going to eat for dinner on St. Patrick’s Day! I miss the traditional corned (continue reading...) Read more
March 16, 2010 - Symantec has recently observed a trend of phishing sites attacking brands that feature online classifieds. The legitimate classifieds brands help customers seek and exchange information on various categories such as employment, real estate, automotive, matrimonial, and so on. These brands (continue reading...) Read more
March 16, 2010 - Posted on behalf of Mathew Nisbet, Malware Data Analyst, Symantec Hosted Services There is a huge variety in the types of spam that are sent all over the internet, but there are patterns to be found in the chaos. One (continue reading...) Read more
March 16, 2010 - I recently took some time off which gave me the opportunity to clear my head and think about some of the big issues we’re facing with Internet security. I thought if I had to pick one thing, what would be (continue reading...) Read more
March 16, 2010 - Moscone Center, San Francisco, USA is the site of this week's RSA Conference 2010. It's the world's largest information security industry conference with well over 10,000 attendees. For some perspective on just how big it is: there (continue reading...) Read more
March 16, 2010 - A new attack spreading BUZUS malware via Windows Live Messenger has been spotted. Trend Micro researcher Loucif Kharouni spotted the messages spreading via the popular instant-messaging (IM) application, samples of which can be seen below. (continue reading...) Read more
March 15, 2010 - I have seen a lot of these lately. This one currently doing the rounds tries to dupe the reader into thinking that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) wants to use their accounts to transfer money meant for charity. (continue reading...) Read more
March 15, 2010 - In the past couple of months, Symantec has observed a mass phishing attack on two major brands that provide retail electronic payment services for banks across the globe. Legitimate retail electronic payments using credit and debit cards are the most (continue reading...) Read more
March 15, 2010 - Symantec previously reported a phishing attack on the Indian Income Tax Department. Phishing emails boasting of tax refunds were sent to users in an attempt to entice citizens to enter their credentials on a bogus website. Recently, new attacks (continue reading...) Read more
March 15, 2010 - Hello, Today we published the Questions & Answers from the March 2010 Security Bulleting webcast. We answered a total of 13 questions concerning the March bulletins and open Security Advisories. No particular themes emerged from the questions but (continue reading...) Read more
March 15, 2010 - Peter and I have been busy planning for CanSecWest in a week. The course, Advanced Memory Forensics in Incident Response, is constantly evolving. It has been about a year and a half since Memoryze was released, and (continue reading...) Read more
March 15, 2010 - The March Madness that has become the description of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) basketball tournament in the U.S. begins March 18. In recent years it’s turned into something of a national event with office pools, Americans glued to (continue reading...) Read more
March 15, 2010 - A couple of weeks ago I published my first Security Lessons. Since then I've received feedback (thank you all!) to create new lessons. Again I encourage you to send me new suggestions (via Twitter or writing a comment in this (continue reading...) Read more