Do spammers take the 4th off?
Symantec circulated a message to the press that it stopped some 3.5 million spams over the 4th of July weekend that were using the holiday as a lure. 3.5 million seemed like quite a bit, so I inquired:...
View ArticleMicrosoft addresses ZoneAlarm patch snafu
Microsoft is re-issuing one of its advisories from this week's Patch Tuesday after some ZoneAlarm users complained they had dead Internet connections after installing the fix. Tuesday's MS08-37 update,...
View ArticleChrome gets a ding
Like the dread of getting a ding in that new car, Google experienced its first ding with its much hyped Chrome browser. While the new Internet surfing tool does a good job of sandboxing applications...
View ArticleDEMOFall showcases new security tech
Last week's DEMOFall soiree in San Diego was touted by conference host Chris Shipley as all about the "distributed Web." And while a number of demonstrators that fell into this category, there were...
View ArticleNearly scared into going cash-only
Tom Rusin, President of Affinion Security Center, has me scared that hackers are trading my personal and credit card information all over the Web. His company uses monitoring of underground chat rooms...
View ArticleCA patches Service Desk
According to a CA advisory, "CA Service Desk contains multiple vulnerabilities that can allow a remote attacker to conduct cross-site scripting attacks. The vulnerabilities are due to insecure handling...
View ArticleScammers using gloomy economic news to lure victims
Not surprisingly, scammers and spammers (or are they one in the same?) are jumping on the bleak economic news as a means delivering their wares. ScanSafe is reporting a number of hackers using the Bank...
View ArticleDentist loses patient records out the back of garbage truck
Whoops, a dentist office down the street from my house seems to have lost the personal data of 60 or so patients. Faulty data security? Open wireless access point exploited? Nope, something a little...
View ArticleMalware exploiting Obama win
Not surprisingly, malware authors have jumped on the Barack Obama presidential election win to spread their evil code. Sophos says Obama-related malware is accounting for 60% of the traffic they're...
View ArticleCrooks targeting the High School Musical crowd
Malware authors are now targeting young fans of the High School Musical series with fake files planted on peer-to-peer networks. Instead of downloading a song or video clip from the latest movie,...
View ArticleGoogle Earth makes malware tracking that much cooler
A plain old cartoonish map of the globe featuring the latest virus outbreaks is okay, but using Google Earth to plot the location of the latest malware threats takes the level of coolness to a new...
View ArticleThere's no such thing as a Skype lottery
Lottery scammers are going the old-fashioned route with a new "Skype World Wide Lottery 2008" ploy: They're mailing letters to would be targets. Actual mail, not e-mail. First, reported in the Skype...
View ArticleJailbreak apps could make Smartphones a bigger risk
Corporate IT folks already nervous about Smartphone security may have more to worry about than executives failing to use passwords. Jailbreak applications - tools for unlocking phones so any...
View ArticleCA patches Secure Content Manager
A high risk flaw in CA's Secure Content Manager's HTTP Gateway could be exploited by attackers in a denial-of-service attack or to run malicious code on a non-patched system. CA rates the flaw high and...
View ArticleAre hacking attempts tantamount to checking for unlocked doors?
A new study by Verizon Communications shows that of 500 data breaches since 2004, 87% of them could have been prevented through simple security practices. The study, which looked at cases that resulted...
View ArticleUS-CERT warns of SNMPv3 vulnerability
A flaw in many implementations of SNMPv3 could be exploited to bypass the authentication mechanism of affected systems. Simply put, attackers could read SNMP packets to find system credentials, then...
View ArticleGet a text message saying you won the lottery?
If you haven't guessed already, it's a scam. 419 Scammers have turned to text messaging as their next fraud-inducing medium. F-Secure is reporting that a number of people have gotten an SMS messages...
View ArticleMicrosoft corporate patch mechanism broken
It's been nearly a week since Microsoft's June Patch Tuesday security updates were released, but some corporate users are still waiting for updates because of a bug in Microsoft's patch distribution...
View ArticleTiger Woods: US Open Champ and DDoS launcher
Yesterday, a number of US-based ISPs thought they were under a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack between noon and 1:30p EST as 'net traffic spiked 15% to 25% during that period. Another...
View ArticleHacking the coffee machine
In a post to the Bugtraq mailing list, Craig Wright says he's hacked his Jura F90 Coffee maker with the Jura Internet Connection Kit. Not sure if this hack has been fully verified by a third party, but...
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