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Symantec Security Response Weblog: Beware of LZH

Beware of LZH Though the discovery of Microsoft Office zero-day exploits has dropped dramatically in the last six months, new file format exploits are still being discovered (and exploited) regularly. After .zip and .rar file exploits, the latest archive format vulnerability affects the Lhaca archiver...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 06-25-2007
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, AntiVirus Information, Internet Hacks, Internet Applications
SANS Internet Storm Center - Yahoo! Messenger exploits seen in the wild

Yahoo! Messenger exploits seen in the wild Published: 2007-06-10, Last Updated: 2007-06-10 01:42:13 UTC by Bojan Zdrnja (Version: 1) Just three days after the PoCs for 2 Yahoo! Messenger vulnerabilities have been posted ( http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=2943 ), we’ve been informed by Roger C....

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 06-10-2007
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, AntiVirus Information, Internet Hacks, Internet Applications
SANS Internet Storm Center - A Java exploit

A Java exploit Published: 2007-06-07, Last Updated: 2007-06-07 02:57:02 UTC by Bojan Zdrnja (Version: 1) Peter G. reported a malicious Java class that he downloaded yesterday. Now, this certainly looks interesting since this is an exploit for Java VM (not to be confused with JavaScript). This means that...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 06-07-2007
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, AntiVirus Information, Internet Hacks, Internet Applications, Spam\Phishing
SANS Internet Storm Center - Cross-Platform OpenOffice Virus Proof of Concept

Cross-Platform OpenOffice Virus Proof of Concept Published: 2007-05-24, Last Updated: 2007-05-24 20:08:18 UTC by John Bambenek (Version: 1) A virus writer sent a proof-of-concept virus called BadBunny to Sophos that uses vulnerabilities in OpenOffice to infect Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. Depending on...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 05-24-2007
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, AntiVirus Information, Internet Applications
Symantec Security Response Weblog: Phishing Authors Keeping up with Latest Exploits

Phishing Authors Keeping up with Latest Exploits The DeepSight Threat Analyst Team is constantly monitoring honeypots termed “crawlers”, which are designed to crawl the Internet looking for maliciously-crafted web pages. These crawlers emulate users surfing the Internet with various browsers that may...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 05-15-2007
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, Patch Management, AntiVirus Information, Internet Hacks, Internet Applications
McAfee Avert Labs Blog - Exploit-TaroDrop.b – Heuristics vs 0-day Gymnastics

Exploit-TaroDrop.b – Heuristics vs 0-day Gymnastics Monday April 9, 2007 at 8:12 am CST Posted by Geok Meng Ong Trackback On April 6th, 2007, our heuristics proactively detected a new document exploit for Ichitaro, a popular Japanese word processor, that was being exploiting a new 0-day vulnerability...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 04-10-2007
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, Patch Management, AntiVirus Information, Internet Applications
F-Secure : News from the Lab - iPod virus

iPod virus Posted by Mikko @ 20:27 GMT We got a a sample submission earlier today...a file called Oslo.zip. The person who submitted it is actually a celebrity: you all know him: What Oslo.zip contained was a virus for iPod. However, this virus is able replicate only on iPods that are running the iPod...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 04-06-2007
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, AntiVirus Information, Internet Hacks, Internet Applications
Symantec Security Response Weblog: The iPod virus

The iPod virus On Wednesday morning, we received anonymously a copy of the first "iPod virus", which we call Linux.Noslo, a play on the virus author's name of "Oslo". This virus is designed to run on iPod Linux, but there is nothing iPod-specific in the virus code, so it is not an iPod virus. It is just...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 04-06-2007
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, Geek Stuff, AntiVirus Information, Internet Hacks, Internet Applications
Virus.Org - First iPod Virus

First iPod Virus Written by Editor Friday, 06 April 2007 So you thought your iPod was safe from malware? Well actually it is mostly, if you have installed Linux on your iPod you now have a device that is capable if infection. Last week a new virus was released that targets ipodlinux. The virus is a proof...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 04-06-2007
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, AntiVirus Information, Internet Hacks, Internet Applications
F-Secure : News from the Lab - QuickSpace: MySpace Tracker Launch by QuickTime - Updated 3/21/07

QuickSpace: MySpace Tracker Launch by QuickTime Posted by Jose @ 06:07 GMT We've seen another attack using an insecure feature of QuickTime called HREF Tracks . This is a feature that can specify movies from other links to automatically open simultaneously when the movie is run. With the QuickTime sample...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 03-21-2007
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, AntiVirus Information, Internet Hacks, Internet Applications

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