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ZDNet Asia Compromised? - F-Secure Weblog : News from the Lab

ZDNet Asia Compromised? Posted by Fei @ 04:28 GMT | Comment (1) ZDNet Asia is one of my bookmarked online resources that I frequently visit. The site is NOT compromised per se; rather, their site's search engine was abused by an attacker with queries of popular keywords. Leveraging on the fact that...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 03-05-2008
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, Internet Hacks, Cybercrime
Targeted Attack in Mexico, Part 2: Yet Another Drive-By Pharming | TrendLabs | Malware Blog - by Trend Micro

Targeted Attack in Mexico, Part 2: Yet Another Drive-By Pharming March 5th, 2008 by Paul Oliveria Two months ago, TrendLabs reported of a massive DNS poisoning attack in Mexico. The said incident is believed to be one of the first (if not the first) “drive-by pharming” attacks seen in the wild. Now,...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 03-05-2008
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, Internet Hacks, Cybercrime
The FDIC Computer Intrusion Report - Security Fix - Brian Krebs on Computer Security

Brian Krebs on Computer Security About This Blog | Archives | RSS Feed ( What's RSS? ) The FDIC Computer Intrusion Report Last week, Security Fix featured the highlights from a non-public report by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) that examined a huge recent spike in the cost of computer...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 03-05-2008
Filed under: Internet Hacks, Security, Cybercrime
Hundreds of Phish Kits on the Loose | TrendLabs | Malware Blog - by Trend Micro

Hundreds of Phish Kits on the Loose March 5th, 2008 by Mayee Corpin TrendLabs has received notice that hundreds of phishing kits designed to generate phishing sites are currently being actively used, including those used by the so-called Mr. Brain. To jiggle everyone’s memory, Mr. Brain is not an individual...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 03-05-2008
Filed under: Internet Hacks, Security, Cybercrime
The Art, Drama, and Sophistication of MonaRonaDona | TrendLabs | Malware Blog - by Trend Micro

The Art, Drama, and Sophistication of MonaRonaDona March 6th, 2008 by Jovi Umawing MonaRonaDona may be far from the thought of a wild combination of popular women paintings than initially thought, but this nifty little malware has been making headlines in security Web sites for the last couple of days...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 03-06-2008
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, Internet Hacks, Cybercrime
Does virus writing pay the mortgage? - McAfee Avert Labs Blog

Does virus writing pay the mortgage? Thursday March 6, 2008 at 9:29 am CST Posted by Allysa Myers Trackback There was recently an article discussing a talk given by Gene Hodges , on the sociological changes in the virus-writer scene. On the one hand, I think the concept is correct, there has been a very...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 03-10-2008
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, Internet Hacks, Cybercrime
Microsoft Access Exploits Nothing New - McAfee Avert Labs Blog

Microsoft Access Exploits Nothing New Thursday March 6, 2008 at 8:01 pm CST Posted by Yichong Lin Trackback Recently our friends from Pandalabs published a weblog , stating there is a new Microsoft access exploit found in the wild. We initiated some research on this exploit and found it actually targets...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 03-10-2008
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, Patch Management, Microsoft Office, Internet Hacks, Cybercrime
404 toolkit used by Vundo creators | TrendLabs | Malware Blog - by Trend Micro

404 toolkit used by Vundo creators March 9th, 2008 by Loucif Kharouni While checking my personal spam emails received yesterday, I got interested on a certain email asking the user to view adult pictures by clicking on the following picture: Once you click on the picture, it is linked to hxxp://{BLOCKED...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 03-10-2008
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, Internet Hacks, Spam\Phishing, Cybercrime
Yet another Thai Site compromised by EU Malware Authors | TrendLabs | Malware Blog - by Trend Micro

Yet another Thai Site compromised by EU Malware Authors March 9th, 2008 by Joseph Pacamarra Research Project Manager Ivan Macalintal reported a few hours ago that another Thailand-based Web hosting site appears to have been compromised to serve malware. APAC-Regional TrendLabs Team immediately probed...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 03-10-2008
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, Internet Hacks, Cybercrime
Active exploitation of Excel vulnerability - SANS Internet Storm Center

Active exploitation of Excel vulnerability Published: 2008-03-10, Last Updated: 2008-03-10 23:52:52 UTC by Maarten Van Horenbeeck (Version: 1) The US-CERT has published a warning on active exploitation of a vulnerability in Microsoft Excel, described in Microsoft Security Advisory 947563 . We can confirm...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 03-11-2008
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, Patch Management, Microsoft Office, Internet Hacks, Cybercrime

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