Critical vulnerability in BlackBerry Enterprise Server

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

Crafted Portable Document Format files can allow an attacker to gain control of a BlackBerry server. According to a security advisory from BlackBerry vendor RIM, the bug is in the PDF Distiller component of the Attachment Service, which runs on the server and prepares PDF email attachments for display on ...

Finding the name behind a gmail address

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

Ever wondered what name is behind some obscure gmail address? Maybe your preferred gmail address was taken and you’re wondering who took it? Here’s a cute vulnerability in the gmail system that comes from the strong tie-ins between gmail, the google calendar and all the other services. Source: http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/1113

DoS vulnerability in Sophos antivirus products

Friday, July 11th, 2008

Antivirus software vendor Sophos has reported the discovery of a DoS vulnerability in some of its products. According to the security advisory, specially crafted attachments to emails can bring down Sophos E-mail Appliance, Pure Message for UNIX and Sophos Anti-Virus Interface (SAVI). For the attack to succeed, the MIME attachment ...

Domino’s Pizza to encrypt emails

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

Domino's Pizza is to use Voltage Security's Secure-mail encryption package to protect internal and external company e-mails.The move is part of a corporate-wide data loss prevention initiative to avoid accidental loss of private or proprietary information, said Karl Anderson, network security manager for the pizza maker."We realised that e-mails being ...

Google Calendar Phishing

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

A couple of minutes ago an interesting attempt to phish for Google account credentials made it to my inbox. It had me blink my eyes because while I suspected phishing there were some things with this one that had me check twice to see how it’s done, as things looked ...