MS06-040 is one of last weeks Windows updates and is the one that was probably the biggest target for “wormable” activity. There’s a good deal of news from over the weekend with regards to this. First: Snort signatures, the MS06-040 exploit was spotted actively “in the wild”, and of course, our perennial friends in the […]
You know, I’ve seen soooo many antivirus vendors that are somewhat ethically challanged claim that cookie files are a big threat, or in worse cases files that the “free” antivirus test downloaded are dangerous “you should be glad we got here in time – where’s our $30 to fix things…” kind of message, but from […]
Incidents.org had an entry in the last couple days on a malware infestation that was interesting and showed a couple things. 1) You can’t bet on antivirus to keep you safe (the initial installer was not detected by most AV vendors – suspicious by 1.) (If you think about it, this makes perfect sense – […]
Embarrasing…. and a big pain in the neck for any of their visitors… It seems as though if you’ve visited Circuit City’s Support Forum with an unpatched Internet Explorer, you likely have a trojan/backdoor of some sort on your pc. (Assuming Explorer hasn’t been patched since January. In reality – if you haven’t updated explorer […]
It’s worth repeating a few things here. There is a nasty exploit in the way that WMF images are parsed in Windows. This means that WITHOUT user intervention a system can be remotely exploited and through that exploit various software (spyware, viruses, other malware) can be installed. There is no patch at this moment, I […]
Spyware Confidential has the top 10 tips to keep that new pc spyware free. Some good tips here and these should be on the checklist when setting up a new pc any time of the year… Paraphrased here…. Send article as PDF
Incidents.org is reporting this as well… A new Beagle variant is making the rounds. It comes in an almost empty email, as a ZIP attachment containing the worm as an EXE. The attachment name, email subject and sole text content of the email all seem to be male or female surnames. Keep your eyes peeled, […]
There is a trojan making the rounds that is acquired by clicking on links in an email. That’s not necessarily new, however…. this email represents itself as an authentic-looking Microsoft security bulletin and the links are supposedly to updates (sorted by Windows version.) It’s important to point out that Microsoft does not send registered users […]
Incidents.org is reporting on attacks against a recent XML-RPC vulnerability in PHP. This would affect users of PostNuke, Drupal, b2evolution, Xoops, WordPress, PHPGroupWare and TikiWiki. As far as I know there are fixes for each of these in the most recent versions of the software. Send article as PDF
Well, frankly, there has been talk of the end of definition based antivirus scanning for years. You see the achilles heel of any AV scanner is that it has to have signatures of what known viruses look like, so there will always be a reflex window, where there’s a new unknown virus that people are […]
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