September 23, 2011 - I was disheartened to read about the 22 September arrest of alleged LulzSec/Anonymous member Cody Kretsinger (known by the handle ‘recursion’) by the FBI as a suspect in the SQL injection attacks on multiple Sony websites. Note that (continue reading...) Read more
September 23, 2011 - When talking about vulnerabilities, the Cisco PSIRT has probably seen it all. Vulnerabilities that can be exploited over the network, vulnerabilities that need local access, and vulnerabilities that need physical access. Vulnerabilities that affect integrity, confidentiality, and availability. (continue reading...) Read more
September 22, 2011 - Have you seen headlines like these lately?: “Skimmer Siphoning Card Data at the Gas Pump” or “Restaurants Sue Vendors After Point-of-Sale Hack.” How about “Insulin Pump Hack Exposes Medical Device Danger” or “Stunex Computer Worm has Vast Repercussions”? ATMs, point-of-sale (POS) terminals, (continue reading...) Read more
September 21, 2011 - Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is part of IETF's Internet Protocol Suite that consists of four abstraction layers and defines a set of protocols used on the Internet. SNMP is mainly used for management and monitoring of networked devices. It (continue reading...) Read more
September 20, 2011 - When I started working at McAfee, I noticed that many of the terms commonly used here were completely unknown to me. Fortunately I had no problems understanding them, but I’m sure that more than one person has read a McAfee (continue reading...) Read more
September 19, 2011 - Thanks to Anand Muralidharan for contributing to this blog. Recently there was a serious bomb blast outside the high court in Delhi, the capital of India. The blast happened on September 7, 2011, and the investigations are continuing with the National (continue reading...) Read more
September 19, 2011 - The web, which for many people is more like the internet than a service that runs over the internet, has brought profound changes. While opening a great number of doors and creating opportunities that otherwise might not exist), the web (continue reading...) Read more
September 19, 2011 - W32.Morto first made headlines in August because of its capability to spread by Windows Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). The worm was unique because it was the first of its kind to use the protocol. However, this wasn't the only (continue reading...) Read more
September 19, 2011 - The word ‘Nimda’ may not be the most well remembered in the cyber-crime hall of fame but as malicious worm outbreaks go, Nimda certainly contributed to the malware landscape and was able to cause havoc on 18 September, 10 years (continue reading...) Read more
September 16, 2011 - It’s no secret that network threats have grown significantly over the past several years – in number, as well as complexity. This growth continues to place an overwhelming burden on IT resources, who have to combat these threats on (continue reading...) Read more
September 16, 2011 - Hello, Today we published the September Security Bulletin Webcast Questions & Answers page. We (continue reading...) Read more
September 14, 2011 - Several of us recently had the pleasure of working with Ann Bednarz from Network World on her feature article, “Inside Cisco Security Intelligence Operations” (SIO). We were all very pleased with the resulting article and her ability to (continue reading...) Read more
September 14, 2011 - Is free security only for the poor in developing countries? Well let’s look at what the users think. When AVAST users install the free antivirus, we use this opportunity to collect (continue reading...) Read more
September 13, 2011 - (Note: This blog was written on September 2. We decided to postpone publishing it due to an ongoing joint effort to shut down servers and block domain names. The variant studied is not the latest but accurately reflects the functionalities (continue reading...) Read more
September 13, 2011 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVHhljvgTuw (continue reading...) Read more
September 13, 2011 - Thanks to Takayoshi Nakayama for his research and contributions to this blog. Targeted attacks have been a pretty popular topic of discussion in the security industry in recent years. Many may recall the incident involving Hydraq—from January 2010—and Shady (continue reading...) Read more
September 13, 2011 - Hello and welcome to this month’s blog regarding the Microsoft patch release. This is a smaller month in terms of patches—the vendor has released five bulletins covering a total of 15 vulnerabilities. This month, all of the issues are rated “Important” (continue reading...) Read more
September 9, 2011 - Thanks to Vivek Krishnamurthi for contributing to this blog. Every sensitive event is an opportunity to exploit. With this motive in the background, it is not surprising to see spammers exploit 9/11. With the 10th anniversary of the tragedy just a (continue reading...) Read more
September 8, 2011 - As we've covered extensively on the Symantec Intelligence blog in the past, 419 or advance fee fraud scammers are highly skilled at using current events to their advantage. Recently we have seen scams taking advantage of unrest in Libya, the (continue reading...) Read more
September 7, 2011 - Ten years later, it is tempting to say that the September 11th terrorist attacks against the U.S. changed everything. It is indisputable that it changed many things, and without a doubt it changed how we think about security, how we (continue reading...) Read more