Today sees the launch of “OneCare”, Microsofts “secrity solution”. Combining firewall, anti-virus and anti-spyware in to one handy package…. but would you trust it?
I guess many people will, and over time we will find out if its a well spent $49.99 or not, but for me? I don’t think so. Microsoft do many things, but [...]
The shocking statistic first, “56% of consumers do not have active anti-virus on their PCs”, ok not that shocking but still a bit worrying. Allthough asking if your average user doesn’t protect themselves on the internet conjures up images of the pope squatting in the woods.
The basic F-Secure anti-virus product protects against viruses and [...]
If you receive a e-Mail alert of a new patch for your Windows XP OS, think again before opening the link present on the message.
The spammed emails, which purport to come from patch@microsoft.com, claim that a vulnerability has been found ‘in the Microsoft WinLogon Service’ and could ‘allow a hacker to gain access to an [...]
F-Secure has an interesting new dynamic world map displaying the various threats and viral hotspots around the world. Viruses and antivirus software is always a big issue, especially for corporates.
Shows how things are heating up when it comes to viruses, malware, trojans and so on.
They make some nice antivirus software too.
Check it out:
F-Secure Worldmap
Pretty neat [...]
It’s sad when a country has to resort to this to control it’s people, freedom to watch porn for Cambodians!
Heeding a request from his wife, Prime Minister Hun Sen on Friday banned the latest generation of mobile phone services in Cambodia to curb the dissemination of pornography.
Bun Rany, along with the wives of several other [...]
Irrepressible Adj. 1) Impossible to repress or control.
Chat rooms monitored. Blogs deleted. Websites blocked. Search engines restricted. People imprisoned for simply posting and sharing information.
The Internet is a new frontier in the struggle for human rights. Governments – with the help of some of the biggest IT companies in the world – are cracking down [...]
I know this maybe old news for some of you, however, I just got the chance of reading this great article on Security Focus (it’s been 2 weeks since I add it to my Favorites)
This two part article discusses some good points of Cryptology, more precisely in the field of Cryptovirology.
Writing a virus is just [...]
MySpace owned again..let’s quote them for a penetration test or vulnerability assessment haha.
TWO New York teenagers are reportedly in police custody after allegedly threatening to give out the personal information of users of MySpace.com unless they are paid $US150,000 ($200,000). Associated Press reported Shaun Harrison, 18, and Saverio Mondelli, 19, of Suffolk County, face computer [...]
Apparently a gaping security flaw in the latest versions of Symantec’s anti-virus software suite has been discovered that could put millions of users at risk of a debilitating worm attack. According to eEye Digital Security, the company that discovered the flaw, the vulnerability could be exploited by remote hackers to take complete control of the [...]
I’ve seen similar figures from other organisations and countries, so the stats don’t suprise me.
My peers and I have always called this Armadillo security, hard on the outside, soft on the inside.
Firewall, IDS, etc…all protecting the exterior of the network, only edge devices, nothing inside, not much policies, not much privelege segregation, anyone inside can [...]
Interesting to see this just a little while after Malaysia announced IMPACT, it’s anti cyber-terrorist task force..
IMPACT is its name, and making an impact in the battle against cyber-terrorism is its mission. Unveiled in Austin, Texas, the Malaysian initiative seeks to bring together governments and the international private sector to deal with increasing threats in [...]
Sounds complicated, it’s almost a tongue-twister.
It turns out the carders (people using stolen credit card details fraudulently) have worked out how to get money out of the spammers (spamming being massive nowdays)
Fraudsters who deal in stolen credit card data have devised a means to extract money from sponsors of junk mail campaigns.
Carders have signed up [...]
Well it happened a while back, remember? The French researcher Guillaume Tena who got in trouble for breaching French copywrite laws by decompiling some software.
Now people are generally starting to worry about disclosing vulnerabilities through any channels, does there need to be some kind of anonymous PGP key based system for vulnerability disclosure? So people [...]
Only as I am writing these lines I can imagine some people who will start laughing when reading this article… But my dear friends this may be the real thing… will see who will laugh 10 years from now…
I. Introduction
This article was ment to be, because, as you will notice, more and more hacking tools [...]
A year? A whole year? A few days I can take, but surely if an Admin doesn’t know what’s going with his machines for a year….compromised for a year, there is something wrong.
An unprecedented string of electronic intrusions has prompted Ohio University to place at least one technician on paid administrative leave and begin [...]
We all knew it was just a matter of time until the ‘thing’ was out.
PandaLabs has detected the appearance of 1Table.A, a malicious code that exploits a recently detected critical vulnerability in Microsoft Word, and which also affects versions of MS Office 2003 and XP.
Microsoft confirmed today the existence of this vulnerability and apparently [...]
PBNJ is a network tool that can be used to give an overview of an machine or multiple machines by identifying the details about the services running on them. PBNJ is different from other tools because it is based on using a scan from nmap parsed to amap. PBNJ parses the data from a scan [...]
Packet sniffing goes hi-tech? What’s wrong with ethereal?
The equipment that technician Mark Klein learned was installed in the National Security Agency’s “secret room” inside AT&T’s San Francisco switching office isn’t some sinister Big Brother box designed solely to help governments eavesdrop on citizens’ internet communications.
Rather, it’s a powerful commercial network-analysis product with all sorts of [...]
Ok so the list gets even BIGGER, after the WoW Trojan, Trojan for World Cup Fans, Ransomeware and the buy a spyware kit story…
Now we proudly present, the Poker Rootkit!
For online poker players, this was always going to be a losing hand.
A Trojan with malicious rootkit features hidden in a legitimate software package distributed by [...]
A Turkish hacker using the handle iSKORPiTX was able to breach the security of a group of web servers, containing more than 38.500 web sites in less than a day!
Iskorpitx is believed to be 45 years old, sometimes being helped for minor defacement activities by another Turkish “senior cracker” (42) going by the handle of [...]
