December 21, 2010 - The ability to connect wirelessly has a lot to do with the indispensability of the Internet in our daily lives. Wireless Internet is available in our homes, offices, cafes, restaurants, parks, hotels, airports, cars, and even airplanes. The mobility factor (continue reading...) Read more
December 21, 2010 - The second Tuesday of every month (“Patch Tuesday”) is a very busy day for information security warriors. They have to digest a flood of information from affected vendors (primarily Microsoft and Adobe) and then cross-check and correlate that against whatever their (continue reading...) Read more
December 21, 2010 - It’s that time of year again. As I prepare for my annual pilgrimage to the Great White North to visit family, I (continue reading...) Read more
December 21, 2010 - The following video is a demonstration of Tenable's latest 3D Tool Beta, visualizing network topology and security events: The 3D Tool reads data from SecurityCenter and allows (continue reading...) Read more
December 21, 2010 - So now that we have an idea of what a cyberbully “looks” like, I thought we would touch on how to talk to your kids about bullying. As I began writing, I realized that I had a lot to say (continue reading...) Read more
December 21, 2010 - Gartner once again published its 2010 Magic Quadrant for Network Intrusion Prevention Systems. While McAfee has consistently achieved placement in the “Leader’s Quadrant” for the past five years, it made a significant leap forward this year capturing the top (continue reading...) Read more
December 21, 2010 - Hardly a day goes by that I don’t read the security news and shake my head. One article tells how thousands of records containing personally identifiable information were stolen from <insert company here.> Another talks about password disclosures of hundreds of (continue reading...) Read more
December 21, 2010 - At the weekend I received a curious email with the subject line "Important ecard notification". Having worked in the computer security industry for many years, I knew it was likely to be up to no good, but I was quite bemused (continue reading...) Read more
December 21, 2010 - Posted on behalf of Martin Lee, Senior Software Engineer, Symantec Hosted Services Information security is all about maintaining the confidentiality, integrity and availability of data. At this time of year, no information security asset is more important than Santa’s ‘naughty or (continue reading...) Read more
December 21, 2010 - An email making the rounds makes the innocent claim that “it is possible that your account password has been stolen”. Expecting a phish? Actually, no. The site serves (continue reading...) Read more
December 21, 2010 - Following my recent blog on W32.Yimfoca.B, it was clear that W32.Yimfoca also received a facelift (no pun intended). W32.Yimfoca.B spreads through instant messaging applications and once installed will download and install W32.Yimfoca. The latest version of W32.Yimfoca is (continue reading...) Read more
December 21, 2010 - At the beginning of the month I spotted a specialist US insurer's website infected with Mal/Iframe-Gen. The detection name alerted me to the fact that the page should contain obfuscated JavaScript because, this identification relies upon the JavaScript emulation within (continue reading...) Read more
December 20, 2010 - No, not really... but someone wants you to think so. At least that's how it's starting to look. On December 14th, the Spamhaus (continue reading...) Read more
December 20, 2010 - Our IT Director shared a phishing email with me noting how professional it looked. While professionals, such as our IT director would not be fooled by a phish like this, many people would be fooled. A picture of the body of (continue reading...) Read more
December 20, 2010 - Welcome to the Tenable Network Security Podcast - Episode 63 Hosts: Paul Asadoorian, Product Evangelist & Carlos Perez, Lead Vulnerability Research Engineer Announcements Several new blog posts have been published this week, including: Microsoft Patch Tuesday Roundup - December 2010 - "Bad (continue reading...) Read more
December 20, 2010 - What are the odds that you and your friends posted your very first messages on Facebook on precisely the same day? May 2nd 2008. Wouldn't it be even more remarkable if you posted that very first message at the same (continue reading...) Read more
December 20, 2010 - There is a market for gift-wrapping services in cyberspace – especially for malware. There are thousands of malware variants out in cyberspace, including the well-known Alureon, Koobface, FakeAV, and Zeus. Behind this myriad assortment is a surprisingly small group of packers (continue reading...) Read more
December 20, 2010 - I've been dealing with a virus this week. NOT a computer virus… but rather, a common cold. Concentration has been a bit difficult, so I have spent much my time catching up on and reading through my (continue reading...) Read more
December 20, 2010 - Thousands of Facebook users have been hit by a scam which claims to give them early access to a facebook.com email address. Messages, appearing in the news feed of users who have fallen for the scam, read: (continue reading...) Read more
December 20, 2010 - Members of a far-right organisation have been told to remain vigilant after hackers stole a database containing names and addresses from an online store. The controversial anti-Islamist English Defence League has (continue reading...) Read more