January 21, 2010 - Microsoft has said it will issue an out-of-band patch today for critical vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer that allow remote execution of code. The company said yesterday it would not wait until the February "Patch Tuesday" to fix the vulnerabilities. (continue reading...) Read more
January 20, 2010 - The Danwei web site (Chinese media, advertising, and urban life) is carrying a rippingly funny blog piece by Alice Xin Liu about a recent Chinese government program that would have China Mobile monitor mobile telephone text transmissions for conversations of (continue reading...) Read more
January 20, 2010 - “Given the significant level of attention this issue has generated, confusion about what customers can do to protect themselves and the escalating threat environment Microsoft will release a security update out-of-band for this vulnerability.”“Thank you,“George (continue reading...) Read more
January 20, 2010 - Virgin Media, the UK telecommunications giant that supplies TV, phone and Internet services, has begun to use deep packet inspection determine if its Internet customers are sharing music or films.The monitoring system will check transmitted data against a (continue reading...) Read more
January 20, 2010 - John Markoff, writing in the New York Times, has reported that SecureWorks researcher Joe Stewart found a distinctive algorithm – only ever published on Chinese web sites – used in the Hydraq Trojan which installed back-door malcode used in the (continue reading...) Read more
January 19, 2010 - The American Red Cross (short code 90999) has reported that as of Sunday they had collected $22 million via text-message donations for the victims of the Haiti earthquake. Totally, the organization collected $103 million at that point.Cell phone (continue reading...) Read more
January 19, 2010 - Microsoft late yesterday issued Advisory 979352 with security advice for those using the Internet Explorer browser. A worrisome unpatched vulnerability in some versions of IE has been linked to the “Aurora” attacks against Google and more than two dozen (continue reading...) Read more
January 18, 2010 - (FRWL stands for “From Russia With Love,” according to Patrick)Russian and German language fake codec pages and one online scanner scam page. (continue reading...) Read more
January 18, 2010 - France, Germany advise switching browsersThe governments of France and Germany have urged users to stop using Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser until the company fixes the security vulnerability that has been blamed, at least in part, for (continue reading...) Read more
January 15, 2010 - Samir Patil has blogged on the Symantec site that the company’s Symantec Probe Network has registered a DECREASE in spam from domains registered in China since early December. He reported that .cn spam fell from 30-50 percent daily to about 20 (continue reading...) Read more
January 14, 2010 - We continue to find hacked sites popping up on web searches for Haiti relief donations-related strings. Among other things, we’ve found a rogue security product being pushed. VIPRE detected that one as Rogues.Win32.FakeVimes.The below sites all redirect to (continue reading...) Read more
January 14, 2010 - Many of the malicious sites we’ve found that are using the disaster in Haiti as bait direct to the domain "scan-now24.com." We recommend blocking it.At one point, the first link in Google search results led to a site (continue reading...) Read more
January 14, 2010 - These are probably hacked sites and should be avoided:location-delamare.fr80.74.71.70www.sevencycles.com/?www.sevencycles.com/www.parksoptical.com/index2Nice work Adam Thomas.Tom Kelchner (continue reading...) Read more
January 14, 2010 - Major natural disasters in populated areas on Earth bring horrible hazards to those living there. With the global reach of the Internet now, those who would like to help the victims with donations share some risk as well. (continue reading...) Read more
January 13, 2010 - The Russian news site rt.com is reporting that police in Moscow have arrested the heads of a business that installed security cameras throughout the city that were streaming pre-recorded pictures instead of real-time video.StroyMontageService has been accused of (continue reading...) Read more
January 12, 2010 - McColo (Nov. 08), Torpig (May 09), MegaD (Nov. 09), Lethic (Jan 10)The Darkreading.com site is reporting that researchers with communications security firm Neustar, of Sterling, Va., working with ISPs has taken over the command-and-control servers and shut down (continue reading...) Read more
January 8, 2010 - InfoSecurity, a great site for computer security news, just put up a story asking the very old question: “Why don’t AV vendors name malcode consistently.”The lead on the piece was: “…Fortinet, Sunbelt Software, and Kaspersky all published (continue reading...) Read more
January 8, 2010 - Microsoft told the world yesterday that it will host a rather slim “Patch Tuesday” next week with only one bulletin for a vulnerability in Windows. Microsoft said it’s considered critical on Windows 2000 but low for all other platforms. (continue reading...) Read more
January 7, 2010 - Adobe has said for some time now that it will issue a patch for the .pdf vulnerability in Reader 9.2 and Acrobat. 9.2 on Patch Tuesday next week. The company had acknowledged that there is active exploitation of the weakness (continue reading...) Read more
January 6, 2010 - Our analyst Dimiter Andonov has developed a tool to decrypt files encrypted by Data Doctor 2010 that at least one blog reader found very useful:georgeCan vipre recover mp3 and jpg files that were encrypted by (continue reading...) Read more