Tuesday, April 15th, 2008 Panos Anastassiadis didn't click on the fake subpoena that popped into his inbox on Monday morning, but he runs a computer security company. Others were not so lucky.In fact, security researchers say that thousands have fallen victim to an email scam in which senior managers such as Anastassiadis are told ...
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Monday, April 14th, 2008 Security service provider Secunia has discovered a vulnerability in the ClamAV open source virus scanner. Attackers can foist code on the appliction using manipulated EXE files.According a Secunia advisory, a boundary error in the cli_scanpe() function in libclamav/pe.c can cause a heap-based buffer overflow. Manipulated PE executables (Windows .exe files) ...
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Monday, April 14th, 2008 The first thing is to isolate the computer (no more trading floppies until you're done) and then begin to disinfect it.One of my favorite tools is Knoppix. The great thing about this Linux distribution is that you don't have to know anything about Linux in order to be able to ...
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Saturday, April 12th, 2008 Threats against browsers are getting more sophisticated and branching out into such exotic areas as gaming, experts told attendees at the recent RSA Conference 2008.New attacks from games and virtual-world Web sites can deliver bot-like control of browsers to attackers, said Ed Skoudis, a security consultant with Intelguardians, speaking at ...
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Friday, April 11th, 2008 Up to 80% of Web sites flagged as malicious by antivirus and search engine indexes are legitimate businesses, according to security experts.
Experts said while the security industry is on top of conventional spam and phishing attacks, more effort needs to be put into preventing and eliminating so-called drive-by-downloads.The attacks allow ...
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