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Flash UPNP attack vector - SANS Internet Storm Center

Flash UPNP attack vector Published: 2008-01-15, Last Updated: 2008-01-15 16:55:01 UTC by Maarten Van Horenbeeck (Version: 1) GNUcitizen has issued a blog posting regarding a new method of exploiting UPNP-enabled devices - by having a user access a malicious SWF file. The group was able to identify how...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 01-15-2008
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, Internet Hacks
Symantec Security Response Weblog: The Winds of Change - A New Storm is Brewing

The Winds of Change - A New Storm is Brewing Well, the holidays are over and people are now back working. Including the controllers of the Storm botnet. Steven Adair of Shadowserver has confirmed that the recently festive Storm domains have now had their DNS records deactivated. This means that for those...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 01-15-2008
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, Internet Hacks
First Rogue Cleaning Tool for Mac - F-Secure Weblog : News from the Lab

First Rogue Cleaning Tool for Mac Posted by Patrik @ 04:56 GMT | We've just found the first Mac rogue application and it's called MacSweeper. It claims to clean your Mac from compromising files and it will always find something to fix/clean but the only way to do so is to buy the program. Once...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 01-15-2008
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, Internet Hacks, Spam\Phishing
Mass Web Infections - SANS Internet Storm Center

Mass Web Infections Published: 2008-01-14, Last Updated: 2008-01-14 21:02:09 UTC by Mari Kirby Nichols (Version: 1) One of our readers, Peter, asked us to post a Register article for comments. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/11/mysterious_web_infection/ It would appear that two different web infections...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 01-14-2008
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, Internet Hacks, Spam\Phishing
Ad-Aware SE Free - obsolete/discontinued/end of support/end of life - Donna's SecurityFlash

Ad-Aware SE Free - obsolete/discontinued/end of support/end of life Microsoft MVP and Lavasoft Consultant, Janie Whitty (aka CalamityJane) announced that Ad-Aware SE Personal Edition is now obsolete. Users are encouraged to upgrade to Ad-Aware 2007 Free edition to continue enjoy free definitions and...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 01-14-2008
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus
Microsoft Update… Not - McAfee Avert Labs Blog

Microsoft Update… Not Monday January 14, 2008 at 7:07 am CST Posted by Tad Heppner No Comments Permanent Link Late last Friday, Avert Labs became aware of an interesting piece of malware. In this latest social engineering scenario an attacker sends a new “friend request” to MySpace users. When the user...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 01-14-2008
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, Internet Hacks, Spam\Phishing
Anti Rootkit Blog » Blog Archive » Anti Rootkit Software Scanners for Vista

Anti Rootkit Software Scanners for Vista We are often asked what Anti Rootkit Scanners are available for Windows Vista. There are currently only 7, out of the 20 or so scanners available, that will work with Vista. These scanners will also only work with 32 Bit versions of Vista. Here is a list of the...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 01-14-2008
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, Virus Removal Tools
In the wild: eCard.zip is another Cutwail trojan - Donna's SecurityFlash

In the wild: eCard.zip is another Cutwail trojan Got email with attached eCard.zip. The compressed file contains eCard.exe. It's infected with TrojanDropper:Win32/Cutwail.W. (aka Troj/Pushdo-F, TROJAN.PANDEX, Trojan.Win32.Pakes.byc, BackDoor.Bulknet.118). The email looks like this (text and raw source...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 01-14-2008
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, Spam\Phishing
Poisoned MySpace page masquerades as Windows Update | The Register

Poisoned MySpace page masquerades as Windows Update Befriend an infection By Dan Goodin in San Francisco → More by this author Published Saturday 12th January 2008 01:18 GMT Doom watchers at McAfee have discovered a booby-trapped MySpace page that foists malware on users by spoofing a Microsoft update...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 01-14-2008
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, Internet Hacks, Spam\Phishing
Fake IRS Web Sites Found (Again) | TrendLabs | Malware Blog - by Trend Micro

Fake IRS Web Sites Found (Again) January 11th, 2008 by Bernadette Irinco TrendLabs researchers have discovered a number of bogus Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Web sites containing links to a host of malicious .EXE files. These bogus Web sites try to appeal to the attention of business managers and accountants...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 01-14-2008
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, Internet Hacks, Spam\Phishing

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