March 15, 2012 - Trojan.Hydraq is a piece of malware that we first saw in early 2010. It was a threat that got a lot of media attention—especially since the targets it chose were very high profile organizations. It's been a couple of (continue reading...) Read more
March 15, 2012 - Nobody knew about Jeremy Lin a couple of months ago. But now, Linsanity rocks the world. Being a new NBA star, his name has already been mentioned countless times on ESPN, NY Times, and all other sports media. If you are (continue reading...) Read more
March 14, 2012 - What was just a theory not so long ago is now being used in-the-wild by threats such as Backdoor.Hackersdoor and its newer variant Backdoor.Conpee. Back in December we analyzed tdpipe.sys, an infected 64-bit Windows 7 system driver. The infection (continue reading...) Read more
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March 13, 2012 - Hello, welcome to this month’s blog on the Microsoft patch release. This is a smaller month—the vendor is releasing six bulletins covering a total of seven vulnerabilities. Only one of this month's issues is rated ‘Critical’ and it affects the Remote (continue reading...) Read more
March 13, 2012 - Survey scammers like to place enticing links in places such as forums, article comments, and social networks. These enticing links lead to surveys that promise items such as gift cards or free electronics, as long as you fill out multiple (continue reading...) Read more
March 13, 2012 - We have a total of six bulletins from Microsoft this month, addressing seven distinct vulnerabilities. It's a pretty light month, but all of your focus should be on MS12-020, a (continue reading...) Read more
March 12, 2012 - Webmail is popular for its many advantages over regular desktop email. One of its salient benefits is ubiquitous availability, which is a double-edged sword. The price paid for universal access is a greatly increased attack surface area. Below we will (continue reading...) Read more
March 12, 2012 - I recently began working on a toolset to aid with analyzing binary protocols and I decided to use it as Read more
March 11, 2012 - It takes time and dedication for cybercriminals to be able to place their mobile malware somewhere on the Internet that will result in a high number of downloads. Target locations for cybercriminals include the official apps market, third-party markets, and (continue reading...) Read more
March 10, 2012 - Unlike the Chet Chat, where we cover a range of recent news items without much depth, in the Techknow programme we pick one topic and consider it in more detail. So if you're one of the regular Chet Chat listeners who's (continue reading...) Read more
March 9, 2012 - Actually, I did it on Saturday afternoon, that way I had time to test the patch and roll it back if necessary and still have the car ready for Monday.So... when do you patch your car? Interesting, albeit fictitious, conversation (continue reading...) Read more
March 9, 2012 - A while back, my wife was mugged and her purse and all its contents were stolen. When she told me, I had three questions: Are you alright? Did you cancel the credit cards and call a locksmith to change our locks? Did they (continue reading...) Read more
March 8, 2012 - Microsoft today released its Advanced Notification for March 2012 with a total of six bulletins that affect all versions of Windows and two Microsoft applications, Visual Studio and Expression Design. Bulletin 1 (continue reading...) Read more
March 8, 2012 - Recently we noticed spammers abusing Dropbox, a popular cloud-based, file-hosting and synchronization tool, to spread spam. Dropbox accounts have a public folder where files can be placed and made publicly available. This function is useful to spammers, as it effectively turns (continue reading...) Read more
March 7, 2012 - Recently we noticed spammers abusing Dropbox, a popular cloud-based, file-hosting and synchronization tool, to spread spam. Dropbox accounts have a public folder where files can be placed and made publicly available. This function is useful to spammers, as it effectively turns (continue reading...) Read more
March 7, 2012 - Contributor: Pavlo Prodanchuk A wave of spam emails promoting a rally against newly elected president Vladimir Putin of Russia began around March 5. An attachment purporting to contain details of an upcoming anti-Putin demonstration accompanied email subjects with varying call-to-action lines: “All (continue reading...) Read more
March 6, 2012 - As Cisco’s Global Threat Analyst, my job is to look for what is changing around the world, and to explain why my colleagues in the Information Communications Technology (ICT) industry should care. Recently, I sat down with brand protection and (continue reading...) Read more
March 5, 2012 - View this video blog to see and hear Cisco CSO John N. Stewart reflect on the recently completed RSA 2012 Read more
March 2, 2012 - At RSA San Francisco 2012, FBI Director Robert Mueller spoke about cybersecurity threats surpassing terrorism as a risk priority in the U.S. It was only a few years ago when cybercrime was juxtaposed with illegal narcotics and the position was made (continue reading...) Read more