Those of you looking for statistics to justify your security budgets for next year, look no further: Symantec has released their view of the underground economy as it has evolved over the past year.
The qualitative information in the report is amusing, but the quantitative information has far more value to anyone trying to build a [...]
Following the speculations on the resurrection of what’s thought to be an already fixed Gmail flaw which could assist in domain name hijackings, yesterday Google commented that their investigation indicated that the recent domain hijacks should be attributed to a phishing campaign, rather than to a Gmail flaw. The phishers was silently adding filter rules [...]
Microsoft’s Security Response Center and McAfee are warning on increased network scanning activity during the last couple of days courtesy of the very latest W32/Conficker.worm exploiting the already patched MS08-067 vulnerability. What’s particularly interesting in the latest wave of copycat worms is that W32/Conficker.worm is patching the infected host in order to ensure that competing [...]
* Ryan Naraine is on vacation.
Guest editorial by Todd Hooper
It’s true – I’m a PC. Searching through my 2006 emails recently reminded me it was two years ago this month when I loaded a beta of Windows Vista on my laptop. At the time we were primarily testing the NAP functionality [...]
After last month’s ruckus made by Microsoft’s out-of-band patch, another threat leveraging the MS08-067 vulnerability was recently reported to have been causing more trouble in the wild.
A worm detected by Trend Micro as WORM_DOWNAD.A was found to use the MS08-067 vulnerability to propagate via networks. Trend Micro researchers also noticed high traffic on the affected [...]
