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Holiday Roast - F-Secure Weblog : News from the Lab

Holiday Roast Posted by Toni @ 16:08 GMT | Comments Yesterday the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation published a press release related to Operation 'Bot Roast II' . The operation revealed more than a million compromised computers as well as over $20M in losses. In total eight individuals...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 12-03-2007
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, In the News, Internet News, Internet Hacks
Slashdot | A Bad Week for Symantec

How far they have fallen. Symantec you are turning yourself into a joke in the security community, get your crap together!! A Bad Week for Symantec Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday March 01, @07:21PM from the seen-better-days dept. Evan Hughes writes "NeoSmart Technologies has published a scathing editorial...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 03-02-2007
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, In the News, Internet News
SecurityFoucus - Google Desktop Cross-Site Scripting Weakness

Google Desktop Cross-Site Scripting Weakness Google Desktop is prone to a cross-site scripting weakness because the application fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input. Successful attacks must exploit this weakness in conjunction with a latent cross-site scripting vulnerability in the 'google...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 02-22-2007
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, In the News, Internet News
Microsoft apologises for serving malware | APC Magazine

Microsoft apologises for serving malware 21st February 2007 Dan Warne Windows Microsoft has apologised for serving malware via its websites and Windows Live Messenger software. APC reader Jackie Murphy reported the problem: "With Microsoft launching Vista along with their Defender software to protect...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 02-21-2007
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, In the News, Internet News
F-Secure : News from the Lab - Snow Day Hackers

Snow Day Hackers Posted by Sean @ 09:21 GMT Two Ohio, USA High School students were arrested last Thursday. The female students are accused of hacking into their school district's Web site and scheduling a Snow Day. The district had originally published notification of a one-hour delay, but as the two...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 02-12-2007
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, In the News, Internet News
ZDNet - Microsoft to provide security strategy update

ZDNet - Microsoft to provide security strategy update By Joris Evers URL: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5888907.html Senior Microsoft executives on Thursday plan to provide an update on the software maker's security strategy and product plans, including its upcoming enterprise anti-spyware offering...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 10-05-2005
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, In the News, Microsoft Windows, Internet News
SANS - Internet Storm Center - Another PnP worm on the loose...

Things finally hit critical mass, boys and girls. Its patch or die time now. The below info is from ISC, with links to information added in. SANS - Internet Storm Center - Cooperative Cyber Threat Monitor And Alert System - Current Infosec News and Analysis Another PnP worm on the loose... CNN reported...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 08-16-2005
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, Patch Management, In the News, Internet News
Massive Identity Theft ring discovered by Sunbelt Software

I have been following a story that I first read in the AntiVirus e-mail list about a massive identity theft ring that was discovered by Sunbelt Software while doing research on the newest version of CoolWebSearch . This is some very serious stuff ladies and gents. Here are the excerpts from the SunbeltBlog...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 08-09-2005
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, In the News, Internet News
More news on the UK Trojan attacks

The news wires all over are talking about the report from the UK on targeted Trojan attacks, that I posted about yesterday… Here is a search url from Google News : http://news.google.com/nwshp?hl=en&gl=us&ncl=http://uk.sys-con.com/read/101469.htm

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 06-17-2005
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, In the News, Internet News
SANS - Internet Storm Center - DrudgeReport Headline - "...huge computer attack..."

Now this doesn’t sound good. More details as they come in. SANS - Internet Storm Center - Cooperative Cyber Threat Monitor And Alert System - Current Infosec News and Analysis DrudgeReport Headline - "...huge computer attack..." We are receiving a lot of questions regarding a headline posted at...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 05-10-2005
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, In the News, Internet News

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