January 17, 2010 - News of an exploit being used to target a zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer (BID 37815) was announced on Thursday, January 14th. According to Microsoft, the vulnerability affects Internet Explorer 6, 7, and 8, which together make up (continue reading...) Read more
January 15, 2010 - On 31 December 2009 MessageLabs Intelligence began tracking a new botnet, named 'Lethic'. At that time, it accounted for 2.5 percent of all spam. On 1 January 2010 it rose to just under 4 percent of all spam and carried (continue reading...) Read more
January 15, 2010 - When it comes to sports, entertainment, celebrities, or movies, the online community is always a passionate audience. In some cases, fans of certain teams or specific celebrities follow the news months in advance of a movie release or a big (continue reading...) Read more
January 15, 2010 - Darkmarket closed shop recently. If you hadn’t heard from them, don’t worry much. This web site operating from different places worldwide managed to join all sorts of credit card crooks and provided different levels of seller verification, escrow services and (continue reading...) Read more
January 15, 2010 - Over the past couple of days, media outlets have been abuzz with news of a cyber attack on Google. A number of people have theorized political intent and the implications of these attacks. First, a little background. The critical infrastructures (continue reading...) Read more
January 14, 2010 - I, like many others, am a big fan of Twitter, although I’m fairly ruthless about pruning those I follow. Most of the people I follow are either other security professionals or close friends and they normally Tweet content that I (continue reading...) Read more
January 14, 2010 - After contributing 30 - 50% of URL spam in 2009, the volume of .cn spam is on the decline. It appears that the drop is due to the recent enhancement in domain registration procedures introduced by China's Internet Network Information (continue reading...) Read more
January 14, 2010 - Android/Windows Mobile/Symbian: If your phone goes missing or gets lifted, WaveSecure, currently free for Android phones, can lock it from further use, restore your contacts and call/SMS history, and even roughly locate and track its (continue reading...) Read more
January 14, 2010 - Windows: Normally $40, Glary Utilities Pro—a system utilities suite—is available for free, today only. We've highlighted the free version of Glary Utilities before, today you've got a chance to grab the professional edition for free. (continue reading...) Read more
January 14, 2010 - Posted on behalf of Mathew Nisbet, Malware Data Analyst, Symantec Hosted Services People all over the world are currently feeling a great deal of sympathy for the people of Haiti, who were recently hit by a severe earthquake. Humanitarian aid is (continue reading...) Read more
January 14, 2010 - This post is made on behalf of Nicholas Johnston, Senior Anti-Spam Engineer, Symantec Hosted Services. Earlier today we saw a 419 or advance fee fraud scam claiming to be sent by Hassan Ali Abdul Mutallab, the brother of Umar Farouk Abdul (continue reading...) Read more
January 14, 2010 - Two new spam campaigns spreading variants of the BANKER family of identity-stealing Trojans have recently emerged. The first campaign features spammed messages containing malicious links to supposed pictures. Once clicked, however, users ended up with TSPY_BANKER.OCN infections. This campaign (continue reading...) Read more
January 13, 2010 - Notable highlights this month include the shift of the regions of message origin, and changes in the average size of spam messages. • In recent months, APJ and South America have been taking the spam share away from the (continue reading...) Read more
January 13, 2010 - Gmail has long offered a more secure connection option over Https, and two years ago let users set it themselves as a default. Now Google is making https the default setting for all Gmail (continue reading...) Read more
January 12, 2010 - Corporations around the world face millions of cyberattacks a day. Most of these attacks don’t gain any media attention or lead to strong political statements by victims. This changed on Tuesday. Google on Tuesday afternoon said it had discovered “a (continue reading...) Read more
January 12, 2010 - The year 2000—or Y2K—was a year in which we witnessed the Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, a United States presidential election decided by the the Supreme Court, and the burst of the dot-com bubble. 2000 was also the year that (continue reading...) Read more
January 12, 2010 - Adobe has released a security advisory and other details on today's updates to Adobe Reader and Acrobat. The advisory lists 8 vulnerabilities fixed in the new versions 8.2 and 9.3, including (continue reading...) Read more
January 12, 2010 - Adobe has released versions 8.2 and 9.3 of Acrobat and Reader, making significant new security changes in all variations. Windows, Mac and UNIX versions are all available. We haven't yet seen any blog (continue reading...) Read more
January 12, 2010 - Hello and welcome to this month’s blog on the Microsoft patch releases. This month we also have a “Patch Tuesday” from Adobe, and Oracle is releasing their quarterly “Critical Patch Update.” Microsoft’s patches This is a very light month (continue reading...) Read more
January 11, 2010 - If you allow applications to save your passwords, anyone with physical access to your PC can decode them unless you're properly encrypting them—and chances are pretty good you're not. Let's walk through the right (continue reading...) Read more