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- The TF plot thickens.
- The depth to the Trojan Fiasco in Israel is beginning to have repercussions. How about this: Bezeq, the state run telecom had just completed the sale of a large chunk of the company to private industry. Well, not quite “completed�. The winning bidder has asked for indemnification from...
- Tags: Trojan Fiasco, trojan horse
- Blog posts 2005-06-08
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- My scareware night and how McAfee lost a customer
- With their Comcast and AT&T dealsMcAfee has a huge market share hereit pretty much does nothing to prevent being infected by these rogue antivirus attacks.I have found Combofix (http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/combofix/how-to-use-combofix)is the most effective tool to remove these things but even that isn't 100%.Usually you will want to rename it before you...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, SECURITY, Vista/7, software, McAfee Inc., AV Software, Malwarebytes
- Discussion threads 2009-11-12
- Microsoft sneaks in Firefox extension via Update
- Microsoft sneaks in Firefox extension via UpdateIt's the .NET Framework Assistant 1.1...The description says:"Adds ClickOnce support and the ability to report installed .NET framework versions to the web server."Oooh.. Sounds ominous...Heavy flow day?.RE: Microsoft sneaks in Firefox extension via UpdateJoe Brockmeier you are an idiot. What extension? What does it...
- Tags: Firefox extension, Microsoft Corp., blog
- Discussion threads 2009-05-31
- Worm surge exploits Microsoft vulnerability
- Worm surge exploits Microsoft vulnerabilityEconomic tremors and MSWith Economic tremors abounding us right now, I do not see how a Company could withstand the money lost from an exploit like this plus all of the time spent by staff and lost productivity due to insecure software. I do not see...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, SECURITY, Viruses and worms, Microsoft Corp., worm
- Discussion threads 2009-01-07
- Trojan exploiting unpatched Mac OS X vulnerability in the wild
- Trojan exploiting unpatched Mac OS X vulnerability in the wildAny Software can be exploitedThis is just another situation that proves that any software can be exploited if someone wants to devote the time to do so. So to everyone that thinks that Mac OS is so much more...
- Tags: Spyware, Spyware, adware & malware, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Operating systems, trojan horse, Apple Macintosh, Apple Mac OS, ARD, Apple Mac OS X
- Discussion threads 2008-06-24
- Haephrati technique used to crack US research lab
- The New York Times is reporting that they obtained a copy of a report from US-CERT that attacks eminating from Chinese IP addresses successfully targeted employees of Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. In addition to research in energy, nanotechnology and "isotope production", Oak Ridge ...
- Tags: Technique, New York Times Co., Attack, Homeland Security, Nanotechnology, Wiki, Security, Government, Emerging Technologies, Online Communications, Richard Stiennon
- Blog posts 2007-12-10
- Malware found on new hard drives
- Malware found on new hard drivesThe moral isDon't outsource components that run business and other important things to countries such as China that do this type of thing. Once it is found out their contract should be pulled and no business should deal with these companies. There should...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Spyware, adware & malware, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, malware, new Hard Drive, hard drive, USB flash drive
- Discussion threads 2007-11-13
- Windows adds 'maybe pirate' category
- Windows adds 'maybe pirate' categoryDear Possible Criminal of IP,We at Micosoft, at the moment, can't prove that you have done anhything wrong or illegal. But since you have Microsoft Windows running on your computer - well, what 's yours is ours.Since we can't be 100 % sure of what...
- Tags: Operating systems, piracy, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, operating system, software, computer
- Discussion threads 2007-02-27
- E-voting a fiasco?
- E-voting a fiasco?VotingIn New York, voting itself is a waste of time. Hillary is still here and, who would have thought it possible, Shumer is even more full of himself than he was the day before.E-Voting FiascoThere are several good sites that list the various problems in this last, and...
- Tags: e-voting, fiasco
- Discussion threads 2006-11-15
- Un-talked about threats
- I have a slide I used to use in my stump pitch that detailed the use of the Haephrati Trojan. My theme was that your existing anti-malware products were completely unable to defend against the simplest custom Trojan. As I have written before, custom Trojans are like the automatic lockpick...
- Tags: custom Trojan, TROJANS
- Blog posts 2006-10-17
- Resisting the Urge (MTV's Urge, that is)
- Apparently, MTV didn't learn from Sony BMG's mistake. In that "don't shoot the messenger" case where the messenger got shot, Sony's customers were outraged to find that the record label was including third party-provided rootkit technology what I called a Trojan horse on its CDs: a rootkit that did...
- Tags: MTV, Urge
- Blog posts 2006-05-23
- Happy Anniversary ThreatChaos
- It seems in vogue to celebrate the first anniversary of one’s blog. I guess that makes sense as there are probably 10 million or so people that are doing that in the next several months. First I want to thank Lindsay Arnhold, the marketing genius at Webroot Software whose...
- Tags: Blogging, security, blog
- Blog posts 2006-02-03
- iTunes phones home
- Apple used the Macworld Expo in San Francisco last week to announce a new version of iTunes, version 6.0.2, that "includes stability and performance improvements over iTunes 6.0.1." One of the "improvements" is the iTunes MiniStore which an interesting little piece of code that looks at what you're listening to...
- Tags: Apple Computer Inc., Apple iTunes
- Blog posts 2006-01-16
- Microsoft inadverdently leaks WMF patch
- Microsoft inadverdently leaks WMF patchDeeply disruptive...."Major corporate users very much dislike randomly timed patch releases, since it is deeply disruptive of everything else that's going on," he added.So exactly how "disruptive" would a trojan worm be?Microsoft inadvertently leaks WMF patchI told you so. I said it wouldn't be a...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Metafile, WMF Patch
- Discussion threads 2006-01-04
- Where's the hook? Israeli Trojan Fiasco finally gets coverage in mainstream US press.
- New reporting of the Israeli Trojan FiascoMore than six months after the Israeli Trojan incident broke the New York Times has published the most comprehensve story on it. I don’t get it. That was an immensely important incident. For the first time it was revealed that big companies were...
- Tags: Michael Haephrati, Israeli Trojan Fiasco
- Blog posts 2005-12-09
- Sony rootkit: The untold story
- In light of the way Bruce Schneier has published Sony's DRM Rootkit: The real story -- a story that recounts how quickly things have gone from bad to worse for Sony, I thought it would only be fitting to publish the untold story (does our industry have the equivalent of...
- Tags: Sony Corp., rootkit
- Blog posts 2005-11-18
- You've heard of Trojan horses? How about Trojan grids?
- You've heard of Trojan horses? How about Trojan grids?computing gridsSay it could be done...it seems to me that even hackers are not that boring....what sort of interesting info is going to come from the neighbor's wireless account anyway?Yet another use for a rootkit!I think you've hit on a relatively scary...
- Tags: Rootkits, Spyware, Spyware, adware & malware, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, trojan horse, Trojan grid, grid, rootkit, computer
- Discussion threads 2005-11-14
- Sony rootkit prompts office clampdown on CD use
- Sony rootkit prompts office clampdown on CD useRootkit compatibility?Does anyone know if the rootkit is only affecting Windows machines, or does it also affect MAC or Linux machines?These "rootkits" wont work if.......the lusers don't have admin rights to their machines. ;)one more reason to switch to LinuxNo more windoze, no...
- Tags: Rootkits, Sony Corp., rootkit, CD
- Discussion threads 2005-11-14
- Gartner: Ignore Vista until 2008
- Gartner: Ignore Vista until 2008Man, feel free to ignore Longhorn altogether. OpenOffice and Linux areLooking better all the time.Just a collection of new lock-in technology, not much exciting in Lonhorn.We will see if anybody bites. It looks like few will use the lock-in apis and protocols for web applications since...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows Vista, Better Management, TCO, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows 2000, Gartner Inc.
- Discussion threads 2005-11-11
- Follow up on Sony DRM fiasco
- Follow up on Sony DRM fiascoNewer computersSo, how does a patch stop it from bluescreeing Vista? Or whatever comes out after that?I won't have to think twice, the purchase won't happen, *EVER*. If I don't see an official CD logo on a CD, it's not purchased by me, since there's...
- Tags: Patches, Digital rights management (DRM), SECURITY, Spyware, adware & malware, Sony Corp., patch, Sony DRM, Follow-Up, digital-rights management
- Discussion threads 2005-11-03
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