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- Microsoft confirms 'detailed' Windows 7 exploit
- Ummm interesting....so just block 139 and 445...445? great that port aggain.Is SMB blocked to/from internet by th firewall by default?RE: Microsoft confirms 'detailed' Windows 7 exploitPorts 139 and 445 are blocked by default for Internet access by Windows firewall in Windows 7 and any commerical hardware firewall. They are enabled...
- Tags: Firewalls, SMB/SME, SMB protocol, Microsoft Windows 7, firewall, Windows 7 exploit, Microsoft Windows, small and medium business, Microsoft Windows Vista, operating system, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-16
- Facebook password-reset spam is Bredolab botnet attack
- For haven sake ...Could we be a little bit more specific."...password-reset messages to trick PC users into downloading a dangerous piece of malware."Do "PC" means Windows? I'm guessing because I see the words "PC" and "malware" in the same sentence, oh, and your screen shot is Windows. ...
- Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Spyware, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Operating systems, Facebook, trojan horse, malware, operating system, Microsoft Windows, Linux
- Discussion threads 2009-10-27
- Agnitum Outpost Firewall Pro 2009 6.7.1 (Windows)
- Outpost Firewall Pro delivers proactive defense against hackers, spyware, Trojans, botnets, keyloggers, ID theft and other Internet-borne threats. The integrated anti-spyware module defends against the broad range of malicious programs. Its on-demand scanner enables scanning custom locations, while the real-time monitor is constantly on guard against the activation of spyware....
- Tags: Outpost, Microsoft Windows, Agnitum, Outpost Firewall Pro, Anti-spyware Module, Host Protection Module, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Spyware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Firewalls, Managed Hosting, Identity Theft, Scanners, Cloud Computing, Networking, Hardware, Peripherals
- Software downloads 2009-09-24
- Adobe Flash zero-day attack underway; Harden PDF Reader immediately
- Malicious hackers have found a new vulnerability in Adobe's ever-present Flash software and are using rigged PDF documents to launch exploits against Windows targets. The Adobe Flash Player flaw, which is currently unpatched, affects millions of Windows XP and Windows Vista users. Adobe has acknowledged a "potential...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Adobe PDF, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Exploit, Zero-day Bug, Security, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2009-07-22
- Guy Kawasaki's Twitter account compromised; used to deliver malware
- ZDNet's own Ryan Naraine reports in his Zero Day security blog that Mac evangelist Guy Kawasaki's Twitter account was hijacked yesterday and was used in an attempt to distribute malware to his almost 140,000 followers. The attack screenshot above included a link to what purported...
- Tags: Malware, Guy Kawasaki, Twitter, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Spyware, Desktops, Cyberthreats, Corporate Communications, Security, Viruses And Worms, Hardware, Marketing, Jason D. O'Grady
- Blog posts 2009-06-24
- Mac OS X malware posing as fake video codec discovered
- Researchers from ParetoLogic are reporting on a newly discovered Mac OS X malware variant posing as fake video ActiveX object found at a bogus Macintosh PortTube site. The use of fake video codecs is a social engineering tactic exclusively used by malware targeting Windows, and seeing it...
- Tags: Video Codec, Apple Macintosh, Malware, Social Engineering, Video, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Viruses And Worms, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-06-11
- Twitter: Can it make security a priority?
- Twitter has been schooled by a 17-year-old hacker over a generic worm that has plagued the social messaging site.  The big question: Can Twitter take security seriously as it wrestles with uptime issues. Dancho Danchev has a nice dissection of Twitter's worm issues. Twitter was hit with at...
- Tags: Twitter, Dancho Danchev, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Security, Viruses And Worms, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-04-14
- Study: IE8's SmartScreen leads in malware protection
- A recently released NSS Labs study, claims that Internet Explorer 8 greatly outperforms competing browsers in terms of protecting users against web based malware. According to the study based upon a modest sample of 492 URLs, not only is IE8's SmartScreen Filter achieving a leading position against...
- Tags: Apple Safari, Study, Malware, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web Browser, IE8, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Web Browsers, Viruses And Worms, Security, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-03-24
- Conficker worm to DDoS legitimate sites in March
- Among the key innovations of the Conficker worm (W32.Downadup) was the pseudo-random domain generation algorithm used for the generation of dynamic command and control locations in order to make it nearly impossible for researchers and the industry to take them down. However, once the domain registration algorithm was successfully reverse...
- Tags: Domain, Worm, Distributed Denial Of Service, Cyberthreats, Security, Viruses And Worms, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-03-03
- Adobe Reader 9 and Acrobat 9 zero day exploited in the wild
- Yesterday, Adobe confirmed the existence of a critical vulnerability affecting Adobe Reader and Acrobat versions 9.0 and earlier, originally detected by the Shadowserver Foundation last week. The onging targeted attacks have since been confirmed by both, Symantec and McAfee urging users to disable JavaScript in Adobe Reader...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Attack, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-02-20
- Interaction Between: Nokia Intrusion Prevention and Nokia Firewall
- Firewalls provide protection between external networks and internal networks by blocking potentially malicious traffic from entering the internal network infrastructure. However, firewalls inherently need to allow SMTP/email, FTP, SIP/VoIP calls, and other protocols with minimal payload security inspection, which may also allow external threat sources to infect internal end-points and...
- Tags: Nokia Corp., Nokia Intrusion Prevention, Firewalls, Intrusion Prevention, Network Security, Security, Networking
- White papers 2008-10-01
- Feel like taunting an identity thief? Don't.
- The next time you get the urge to enter angry messages to phishers on fake malicious Web sites, stop and consider this discovery by researcher Joe Stewart. The identity thieves behind the Asprox botnet have built extra logic into phishing sites to detect taunts and subject those...
- Tags: Identity Thief, Asprox, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Banking, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Financial Services, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-08-26
- CNET's Clientside developer blog serving Adobe Flash exploits
- Yesterday, Websense Labs issued an alert regarding a compromised CNET blog, namely the Clientside developer blog which has been embedded with a malicious javascript code attempting to exploit the visitors through a well known vulnerability in Adobe Flash's player. Websense's alert : "Websense Security Labs ThreatSeeker Network has discovered...
- Tags: adobe systems inc., blog, CBS Interactive Inc., dancho danchev, javascript, malware, scripting languages, security, software/web development, viruses and worms, web development, websense inc.
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
- Web worms squirm through Facebook, MySpace
- My colleagues at Kaspersky Lab see disclosure have intercepted two new worms squirming through MySpace and Facebook, using social engineering lures to plant malware on Windows systems. The worms propagate via the comments features on the two popular social networks, using video lures and fake Flash Player...
- Tags: Web, Facebook, Kaspersky Lab, Network, Macromedia Flash Player, Social Engineering, Worm, MySpace, Victim Machine, Cyberthreats, Social Networking, Viruses And Worms, Security, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-31
- Sony PlayStation's site SQL injected, redirecting to rogue security software
- The latest high trafficked web site to fall victim into the continuing waves of massive SQL injection attacks courtesy of copycats and the ASProx botnet, is Sony's PlayStation U.S site according to a recent post at SophosLabs's blog : "Researchers at IT security firm Sophos have warned lovers of...
- Tags: Sony Corp., Domain, SQL, Sony Playstation, SQL Injection, Hacker, Programming Languages, Game Players, Databases, Security, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- Researcher claims thousands of identities stolen during Social Engineering pentests
- Kelly Jackson Higgins of Dark Reading, reported on research conducted by Joshua Perrymon, hacking director for PacketFocus Security Solutions and CEO of RedFlag Security, who has been performing social engineering exploits for numerous clients in the past year and has apparently stolen thousands of identities with a 100 percent success rate. ...
- Tags: Social Engineering, Identity, Dark Reading Article, Identity Theft, Security, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- Apple plugs 25 Mac OS X security vulnerabilities
- Apple has shipped another Mac OS X monster update to fix a total of 25 documented vulnerabilities that could lead to arbitrary code execution attacks. With Security Update 2008-004, Apple fixes code execution flaws in Launch Services, SMB File Server, System Configuration, VPN and WebKit. ...
- Tags: Security, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Arbitrary Code Execution, Small And Medium Business, Apache Tomcat, Application Termination, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Smb/Sme, Operating Systems, Software, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-06-30
- Misplaced Trust - RFID Tags as Malware Carriers
- Radio Frequency Identification RFIDis a technology that is becoming more and more prevalent as a means of identifying objects and carrying small amounts of data. With this increasing use, RFID security is also becoming an increasingly important issue. In this paper, the author looks at a non-convenient security issue; that...
- Tags: Malware, RFID Tag, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, RFID, Wireless And Mobility, Security, Biometrics
- White papers 2008-06-16
- ActiveX control bug bites Creative Labs AutoUpdate engine
- A high-severity security flaw in the Creative Software automatic update engine could put Windows computers at risk of remote code execution attacks, according to a warning from the US-CERT Computer Emergency Readiness Team. The vulnerability affects the software used to provide updates to Creative Labs' audio/video entertainment product line,...
- Tags: Webcam, Zen, Automatic Update, Blaster Worm, ActiveX Control, Creative Labs Inc., ActiveX Control Bug, Create Software AutoUpdate Engine ActiveX Control, ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, Patches, Viruses And Worms, Security, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-05-30
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