October 27, 2010 - You may have seen some headlines today about a New Java Trojan that attacks Macs. It turns out that it also attacks Windows and Linux users as well. The Trojan pretends to be a video on Facebook. A user gets (continue reading...) Read more
October 27, 2010 - A recent article at Time http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,2025696,00.html details how an online voting system was hacked. The good news is that it was a public test and not a real election. The bad news is that real people’s information was able to (continue reading...) Read more
October 27, 2010 - The past several days have seen the security community abuzz about a program presented in San Diego at ToorCon 12 this last weekend called FireSheep. Written by Eric Butler, a web developer from Seattle, it has, or at least is (continue reading...) Read more
October 27, 2010 - Long-time readers may recall that I was rather critical last year, here and elsewhere, of the way in which the BBC played footsie with the bad guys, in contravention of OFCOM directives and, arguably, the UK's Computer Misuse (continue reading...) Read more
October 27, 2010 - Posted on behalf of Jo Hurcombe and Manoj Venugopalan, Malware Analysts, Symantec Hosted Services As many of us already heard the great news about Bredolab Malware that been shut down by Dutch authorities. “On October 25th 2010, the High Tech Crime Team (continue reading...) Read more
October 27, 2010 - Yesterday we received reports about a critical vulnerability in Firefox browser that has been detected in the wild. According to the reports, this flaw can potentially allow an attacker to exploit the user's machine through the browser by making it run arbitrary (continue reading...) Read more
October 27, 2010 - A new video has been uploaded to the Tenable Security YouTube Channel titled, "Integrating Nikto with Nessus": Please visit the Tenable YouTube (continue reading...) Read more
October 27, 2010 - (Which you can use to get rid of it) When you fall victim to the ThinkPoint rogue security application, the downloader reboots your machine then presents the victim with its own scanning screen on what (continue reading...) Read more
October 27, 2010 - If you spend a fraction of the time that I do tethered to the Internet, you'll be aware that Limewire has been told to "stop distribution and support of LimeWire’s P2P file-sharing service as a result of a court-ordered injunction". (continue reading...) Read more
October 26, 2010 - Earlier today, Mozilla confirmed on its blog that an unpatched vulnerability exists in Firefox 3.5 and 3.6. Unfortunately code exploiting the vulnerability is out in the wild. It has been reported that the website for the Nobel Peace Prize was (continue reading...) Read more
October 26, 2010 - Does your school have an affinity card program? If so, you might want to check out how it is doing versus the competition.In case you missed it, the Federal Reserve Board on Monday released a report that (continue reading...) Read more
October 26, 2010 - Did you know? A full 40% of security spending is occurring in the 250-999 employee space and that $2.3 billion is being spent there. Last week at the global McAfee Partner Day, (continue reading...) Read more
October 26, 2010 - It's that time of the year again! Halloween is just a few days away and cyber criminals are taking advantage by inserting their malware campaigns right into Halloween related search results. Searching for Halloween costumes, parties, pumpkin carving patterns, (continue reading...) Read more
October 26, 2010 - I have had four friends in the past month (that I know of) get hit by a computer virus. Come to think of it, I think I have had a big jump in the number of friends getting viruses this (continue reading...) Read more
October 26, 2010 - A phishing email aimed at MobleMe subscribers is circulating: (click graphic to enlarge) It leads here and this is NOT the real Apple Store: (continue reading...) Read more
October 26, 2010 - Google offers URL blacklists to identify malicious websites and phishing sites through the Google Safe Browsing API. It is used in pretty much all browsers (Firefox, Safari, etc.), except Internet Explorer. Version 2 has been available (continue reading...) Read more
October 26, 2010 - The High Tech Crime Team of the Dutch National Crime Squad has seized 143 Bredolab command and control servers and effectively shut down the botnet that controlled 30 million computers, according to the country’s public prosecutor’s web site. The (continue reading...) Read more
October 26, 2010 - According to a recent article on SearchCloudComputing.com, with its Business Productivity Online Services (BPOS), Microsoft has scored some impressive wins, including the State of California and New York City. While a (continue reading...) Read more
October 26, 2010 - Welcome to the Tenable Network Security Podcast - Episode 55 Hosts: Paul Asadoorian, Product Evangelist & Kelly Todd, Compliance Analyst Announcements Several new blog posts have been published this week, including: Risky Business #173 Interview with Ron Gula - Process Accounting and (continue reading...) Read more
October 26, 2010 - Things are starting to get a little tougher in the botnet world. This year we have witnessed many shutdowns of major botnets and their owners arrested. We have also seen money mules arrested and - more importantly - arrests for (continue reading...) Read more