March 25, 2011 - Remember I wrote about how I had to use a cyber café a few weeks back and the momentous discovery I made there about carelessly shutting down Facebook? Well, I had another experience there that I would like to share (continue reading...) Read more
March 25, 2011 - Today many organizations find themselves addressing concerns over their proprietary information being stolen and their systems being compromised. Some may view this as a single problem since, in most cases, system compromise is an overture to information theft. The most (continue reading...) Read more
March 24, 2011 - Cryptography has been, and continues to be, the most important and ubiquitous aspect of security services (firewall, secure access, VPN, authentication). There is a vast number of cryptographic algorithms and techniques that provide information security features that are used in (continue reading...) Read more
March 23, 2011 - Earlier today news was made public regarding nine fraudulent digital certificates which were issued by a company named Comodo. The certificates were issued through a breached registration authority (RA), causing the applicant to be improperly verified. Mozilla, Google, and Microsoft (continue reading...) Read more
March 23, 2011 - Recently at Symantec Security Response, we came across a seemingly innocuous program which was being hosted at a number of different URLs. What flagged the file as unusual was the fact many different customers were submitting the same file for (continue reading...) Read more
March 23, 2011 - For corporations, Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) is a widely publicized yet little understood topic. Does it exist? Is it a real threat? How can an organization tell if it is impacted? The Cisco Computer Security Incident Response (continue reading...) Read more
March 23, 2011 - It’s that time again – tomorrow at 11am PT we’ll be hosting another Twitter chat on the @McAfeeBusiness feed. Our topic of discussion: application security. Normally, our topics are guided by security trends and issues top of mind for (continue reading...) Read more
March 22, 2011 - On 21 March 2006, Jack Dorsey sent the first ever Twitter message or ‘tweet’ with five simple words “just setting up my twttr”. Five years later, 140 million tweets are sent in a host of different languages every day via (continue reading...) Read more
March 21, 2011 - Not only Facebook is adding new and interesting features to its toolbox; spammers and scammers in Facebook are, too. Currently there is a scam making rounds using a classic “who is viewing your profile” themed bait. So far (continue reading...) Read more
March 21, 2011 - When Brian Krebs posted a report about Rustock botnet takedown, Symantec observed a decline in overall spam traffic. Symantec.cloud posted a blog about this, and the Wall Street Journal is now reporting that Microsoft led this takedown. On (continue reading...) Read more
March 21, 2011 - Our original blog entry about an malicious version of an IncorporateApps Android application called “Walk and Text” generated some very contentious comments from the author/distributor/publisher of the legitimate application. So, we decided to rewrite the posting to make things a (continue reading...) Read more
March 18, 2011 - The earthquake and aftershocks which have struck New Zealand in the last few months are still being exploited by spammers and phishers in an attempt to feed upon the fears of Internet users. Symantec has recently observed continued phishing attacks (continue reading...) Read more
March 17, 2011 - Symantec observed a spike of malicious spam activity in the early morning of March 16. These spam samples use subject lines related to the recent natural disaster in Japan and political unrest in the middle east. This blog discusses the (continue reading...) Read more
March 17, 2011 - St. Patrick’s Day is a religious holiday celebrated internationally on March 17. Traditionally, this day is celebrated with festive parades and music in Ireland, Europe, and even New York City. Among the many popular traditions that surround St. Patrick’s Day, (continue reading...) Read more
March 17, 2011 - Posted on behalf of Mat Nisbet, Malware Data Analyst, Symantec.cloud Brian Krebs posted on KrebsonSecurity a report about the Rustock botnet apparently going quiet yesterday, and spam from the botnet ceasing. I can confirm that at around 15:30 UTC, on (continue reading...) Read more
March 16, 2011 - As predicted in last month’s report, average daily global spam volume increased month-over-month for the first time since August 2010. The average daily spam volume increased 8.7 percent in February. This rise in spam volume also increased the overall spam (continue reading...) Read more
March 15, 2011 - Good news on the social networking security front is that Twitter has finally got its act together to offer an Always use HTTPS option. If you turn on this option, all (continue reading...) Read more
March 15, 2011 - In order to see what is happening in social networks, I sat down and analysed about half a million wall posts from people who have their profile public and visible to everyone over the last month. Obviously this represents only (continue reading...) Read more
March 15, 2011 - Symantec’s telemetry has shown over 12 million Intrusion Prevention Signature (IPS) hits on sub domains of the ‘CO.CC’ domain in the last six months. Anyone somewhat familiar with the top-level domain-naming hierarchy might be lead to believe that CO.CC (continue reading...) Read more
March 15, 2011 - In the previous installment of our series of IPv6 posts, we covered some of the ways ICMP has changed in IPv6 compared to IPv4. In this post, we’ll talk about how addressing has changed in IPv6 compared to IPv4. While (continue reading...) Read more