August 30, 2010 - You have to be a real cool cat to get into the Cambridge Who’s Who registry. A few months ago I received a spam message from whoswhopublication@gmail.com. A legitimate Who’s Who organization is very unlikely to be using a Gmail (continue reading...) Read more
August 30, 2010 - Posted on behalf of Nick Johnston, Senior Software Engineer, Symantec Hosted Services MessageLabs Intelligence has recently seen an interesting variant on normal bank and other financial institution phishing. This particular phish message encourages the recipient to receive 90 dollars by completing (continue reading...) Read more
August 30, 2010 - Facebook membership recently passed 500 million, prompting some to observe that if the social networking site were a country, it would now be the third most populous in the world after China and India. Certainly, the explosive growth of social (continue reading...) Read more
August 30, 2010 - Symantec often utilizes honeypots to acquire new samples and observe attacks in the wild. Many threats encountered on honeypots are related to botnets. However, on a rare occasion a honeypot may encounter a targeted attack. In these cases the attacker (continue reading...) Read more
August 30, 2010 - Apple has today patched the JailbreakMe vulnerability. This was done via a new iOS operating system update.The new operating system versions are 4.0.2 for iPhone and iPod Touch and 3.2.2 for iPad.Installing the new (continue reading...) Read more
August 30, 2010 - Three weeks ago a ‘mysterious’ new jailbreak technique was posted to jailbreakme.com. Research to date indicates that this technique leverages two distinct vulnerabilities to gain access to devices. The first issue exploited is a FreeType CFF font handling issue, exploitable (continue reading...) Read more
August 30, 2010 - As the CEO and co-founder of Tenable Network Security, I am very proud to announce our inclusion in the 2010 Inc 5000 list of fastest growing companies in the United States. We placed #1369 out of 5000 ranked companies. Tenable is (continue reading...) Read more
August 29, 2010 - I'm distressed to note that Facebook is suing a teacher's community startup over its intention to use the name Teachbook, having already persuaded a site calling itself Placebook to switch to the name TraceTrip. The issue has arisen over alleged (continue reading...) Read more
August 29, 2010 - The following internet advice, which may have a subject title such as above, could just get you killed. Like any other middle aged, balding, over-weight chap my mother still worries about me. (continue reading...) Read more
August 28, 2010 - You may have received an email message that looks something like this. (ESET was just asked about it – thanks to Chris Dale for passing it on.) Please note: this is, if not an out-and-out hoax, a very misleading (continue reading...) Read more
August 27, 2010 - One of the most common scenarios we observe on a daily basis are users coaxed into phishing campaigns and malicious applications on Facebook. As we interact with our friends and family on social networks, we tend to trust of any (continue reading...) Read more
August 27, 2010 - In this blog we continue our analysis of the recently discovered Tidserv variant that is capable of infecting 64-bit Windows operating systems. While we gave a quick overview of the threat yesterday, today we’re going to talk more about (continue reading...) Read more
August 27, 2010 - Symantec has observed a new spam tactic being used in which fake surveys are seeking users' opinions or views on features provided by their social networking site. The sample shown below is one such spam email targeting Facebook: (continue reading...) Read more
August 27, 2010 - Visa has just come out with its latest in what I hope will be a continuing stream of Best Practices documents. This one is Visa Top 10 Best Practices for Payment Application Companies. You can click here (continue reading...) Read more
August 27, 2010 - Microsoft has posted an advisory that explains the "DLL preloading attacks" and offers a work-around tool that “allows customers to disable the loading of libraries from remote network or WebDAV shares. This tool can be configured to disallow insecure loading (continue reading...) Read more
August 27, 2010 - We have put together a short video about our upcoming F-Secure Internet Security 2011 product.I just watched the video, which features Sean from our lab. And I must tell you that Sean looks amazing.I (continue reading...) Read more
August 27, 2010 - This week has been pretty rough on Friendster, one of the more popular social networking sites. The Websense® Threatseeker® Network detected a spike, or a rather large increase, in the number of abused or fake Friendster accounts (continue reading...) Read more
August 27, 2010 - An interesting phish was just escalated to me for analysis. Well, ironic more than interesting. Looking at the following phish: The message is a typical phish with clues to its nefarious origins. Dear Valued Customer, Your New Online (continue reading...) Read more
August 27, 2010 - So, the web is dead. Or so says the latest cover of Wired Magazine. I must admit, seeing this pronouncement (in bright orange!) pop out of my mailbox caused me to stop in my tracks. But the hot Arizona sun (continue reading...) Read more
August 27, 2010 - The McAfee Cash for Clunkers campaign offers incentives to McAfee Elite partners and their reps & SE’s for certain competitive swaps in North America. Partner offer: Up to (continue reading...) Read more