Archive for the ‘Security’ Category
Sunday, May 11th, 2008
We received a report from Mike this afternoon about a couple of URLs containing a malicious JavaScript that pulls down a file associated with Zlob. If you do a google search for these two URLs, you get about 400,000 sites that have a call to this Javascript file included in ...
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Sunday, May 11th, 2008
Inspired by a comment on Ajaxian, I killed another afternoon or two making a small library capable of reading EXIF data from JPEG images, figuring I would at least learn a bit about EXIF and the JPEG (and TIFF) image formats.
Before we start, a small disclaimer. I'm somewhat of a ...
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Sunday, May 11th, 2008
This is not good. Researchers from INSERT found a vulnerability in the Gmail engine that could allow spammers to forward mail through Google, thereby bypassing blacklists and being accepted by whitelists. It works by using the same forwarding features that allow users, myself included, to forward their email through ...
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Saturday, May 10th, 2008
Security researchers have developed a new type of malicious rootkit software that hides itself in an obscure part of a computer's microprocessor, hidden from current antivirus products.
Called a System Management Mode (SMM) rootkit, the software runs in a protected part of a computer's memory that can be locked and rendered ...
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Friday, May 9th, 2008
The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) on Thursday issued a warning about a phishing campaign designed to steal personal information from consumers using the promise of a tax rebate check as bait.IC3 is jointly run by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the National White Collar Crime Center, and the Bureau ...
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
Microsoft's Vista operating system is more susceptible to malware than Windows 2000, and though it's 37% more secure than Windows XP, it's still too vulnerable.That's the contention of security vendor PC Tools, which has a financial interest in the vulnerability of Microsoft's software.
"Ironically, the new operating system has been hailed ...
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
It takes the average attacker less than 10 seconds to hack in and out of a database -- hardly enough time for the database administrator even notice the intruder. So it’s no surprise that many database attacks go unnoticed by organizations until long after the data has been compromised.
And surprisingly, ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Mozilla warned Wednesday that a malicious program inserted adware code into a Firefox plugin that has been downloaded thousands of times over the past three months.
Because of a virus infection, the Vietnamese language pack for Firefox 2 was polluted with adware, Mozilla security chief Window Snyder said in a blog ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
RedTacton is a new Human Area Networking technology that uses the surface of the human body as a safe, high speed network transmission path.
Using a new super-sensitive photonic electric field sensor, RedTacton can achieve duplex communication over the human body at a maximum speed of 10 Mbps.
RedTacton uses the minute ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
A loyal ISC reader, Rob, wrote in to point us at what looks to be a SQL Injection worm that is on the loose. From a quick google search it shows that there are about 4,000 websites infected and that this worm started at least mid-April if not earlier. Right ...
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