May 16, 2011 - Have you ever had a hard drive failure? I have. It happened to me in my first ever computer job. I was about six months in, working on a small part of a big project, and we had a milestone (continue reading...) Read more
May 13, 2011 - On June 1-2, I will be participating in the EastWest Institute’s (EWI) second Worldwide Cybersecurity Summit at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Center in London, and I'm very excited about the prospects for this event. EastWest Institute is a global, (continue reading...) Read more
May 13, 2011 - An article came out yesterday from Clement Genzmer who is a security engineer at Facebook. His tagline is "searching and destroying malicious links". Those of us in the business of digital security and safety can certainly identify with (continue reading...) Read more
May 12, 2011 - In the previous installment of our series of IPv6 security posts, we covered some of the basic things you need to consider when performing security testing on your IPv6 network. In this post, we will examine some of the things (continue reading...) Read more
May 12, 2011 - Hello, Today we published the May Security Bulletin Webcast Questions & Answers page. We fielded twelve questions on various topics during the webcast, (continue reading...) Read more
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May 11, 2011 - The Cisco 1Q11 Global Threat Reporthas been released. The report covers the period from 1 January 2011 through 31 March 2011 and features data from Cisco Security Intelligence Operations. This quarter's contributors includes Cisco Intrusion Prevention System (IPS), IronPort, Remote (continue reading...) Read more
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May 10, 2011 - Spamming with dotted decimal URL (a dotted decimal URL refers to the four-byte IP address notation as a sequence of four decimal numbers separated by dots) is one of the most often seen URL-obfuscation techniques employed by spammers. Unfortunately, to (continue reading...) Read more
May 10, 2011 - Hello and welcome to this month’s blog on the Microsoft patch release. This is very light month —the vendor is releasing two bulletins covering a total of three vulnerabilities. One of the issues is rated ‘Critical’ and it affects Windows Internet (continue reading...) Read more
May 10, 2011 - Third parties, in particular advertisers, have accidentally had access to Facebook users’ accounts including profiles, photographs, chat, and also had the ability to post messages and mine personal information. Fortunately, these third-parties may not have realized their ability to access (continue reading...) Read more
May 10, 2011 - Today, Microsoft released two patches in the May 2011 security bulletin. This continues the cycle of smaller and larger patches on alternate months.MS11-035 is rated as critical (continue reading...) Read more
May 10, 2011 - Scammers have been busy these days generating false news alerts through email spam. In this way, they are trying to advertise their so-called rewarding “work from home” business. They are using names of well known news agencies in the (continue reading...) Read more
May 10, 2011 - Editor's note: Since this article was first published, it has been confirmed that Microsoft has agreed to (continue reading...) Read more
May 9, 2011 - The next wave of spam is now making its way into social networks. One example of this type of threat is the Koobface malware, distributed through social networks such as Facebook. Koobface tricked users into downloading the malware, which then (continue reading...) Read more
May 6, 2011 - The National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC) describes two types of intermediaries between subjects (users) and relying parties: identity providers and attribute providers. This is a separation not frequently found in identity systems. (continue reading...) Read more
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May 5, 2011 - Microsoft announced two bulletins for May's Patch Tuesday and both have limited applicability. The first bulletin is rated critical for Windows, but is applicable only to Windows 2003 and 2008. The (continue reading...) Read more
May 5, 2011 - Hello everyone, Today we are announcing changes to Microsoft’s Exploitability Index. Since October 2008, we have used the Exploitability Index to provide customers with valuable exploitability analysis for our (continue reading...) Read more
May 5, 2011 - Exploitability Index Improvements Now Offer Additional Guidance In October of 2008, Microsoft published its first Exploitability Index: a rating system that helps (continue reading...) Read more