Monday, April 7th, 2008
Recycling an old social engineering technique and using two different attack methods, a new spam run emerges as a threat to Web users before Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday. And not because it exploits soon-to-be named vulnerabilities.
What this spamming operation takes advantage of is the anticipation itself for the release of patches ...
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Sunday, April 6th, 2008
As Chris mentioned in a previous post we used social engineering and phishing emails as an attack vector. The scope of the engagement prevented us from collecting any data that could be used to identify the user. The client was not out to make examples of their staff but to ...
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Spammers are once again using web bugs to verify the validity of of email addresses. This time the trick is not done with graphics but with digital certificates. Alexander Klink from German consultants Cynops has discovered a vulnerability in Microsoft products – or possibly in the Crypto API – that ...
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
The amount of new malware has never been higher. Our labs are receiving an average of 25,000 malware samples every day, seven days a week. If this trend continues, the total number of viruses and Trojans will pass the one million mark by the end of 2008.
While there are more ...
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Sunday, March 30th, 2008
"I'm proud to announce the release of Wireshark 1.0. This is the culmination of nearly ten years of hard work by a team of brilliant and talented developers. It is an honor to be able to work with these people.
On behalf of the development team, I would like to thank ...
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