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Symantec Security Response Weblog: It’s Not a Wonderful Second Life

It’s Not a Wonderful Second Life It’s not very far into 2008 and sadly we are already seeing some of our predictions on the security trends of 2008 come true. I blogged earlier that our security analyses expected to see old style cybercrimes turn up in virtual worlds. While it’s not clear if any crime...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 01-28-2008
Filed under: In the News, Internet Hacks, Spam\Phishing, Security
Is it Domain Tasting or Domain Misusing? - McAfee Avert Labs Blog

Is it Domain Tasting or Domain Misusing? Thursday January 24, 2008 at 11:01 am CST Posted by Francois Paget Trackback When a registrar registers a domain name, there is a five-day Add Grace Period (AGP) where he may cancel his request and receive a full credit for the registration fee from the registry...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 01-24-2008
Filed under: Internet Hacks, Spam\Phishing, Security
Drive-by Pharming and attacks against network infrastructure - SANS Internet Storm Center

Drive-by Pharming and attacks against network infrastructure Published: 2008-01-24, Last Updated: 2008-01-24 02:11:21 UTC by Toby Kohlenberg (Version: 1) Symantec posted a blog entry about attackers using vulnerabilities in web browsers (CSRF and XSS from our interpretation of the article) to reconfigure...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 01-24-2008
Filed under: Internet Hacks, Mobile\Wireless, Security
Industrial Control System Attacks - SANS Internet Storm Center

Industrial Control System Attacks Published: 2008-01-19, Last Updated: 2008-01-19 03:16:11 UTC by Marcus Sachs (Version: 1) At the recent SANS SCADA Summit in New Orleans a CIA spokesman gave the audience these chilling comments: "We have information, from multiple regions outside the United States...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 01-23-2008
Filed under: Internet Hacks, Security
Spammers “Feeling Lucky” With Anti-Typosquating Domains - McAfee Avert Labs Blog

Spammers “Feeling Lucky” With Anti-Typosquating Domains Tuesday January 15, 2008 at 2:04 pm CST Posted by Kevin McGhee Trackback The recent wave of Google “I’m Feeling Lucky” search-spam that Chris Barton blogged about a while ago has added a new flavor to the never ending recipe book of spam. Typosquatting...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 01-16-2008
Filed under: Internet Hacks, Spam\Phishing, Security
How to combat the Sans Top 10 Security Threats - ComputerWeekly.com

Security Alerts How to combat the Sans Institute's top 10 security threats Author: Timothy Mullen Posted: 08:21 14 Jan 2008 If one were to go back through the archives of the Sans Institute's Top Threats lists , some of which I have contributed to, one would find the range of threats and vulnerabilities...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 01-14-2008
Filed under: Internet Hacks, Spam\Phishing, Security
Xbox Live Accounts Hacked | TrendLabs | Malware Blog - by Trend Micro

Xbox Live Accounts Hacked January 12th, 2008 by Arman Capili The online gaming industry suffered another security setback as Microsoft’s popular online gaming service, Xbox Live , was reported to have experienced a high-profile hacking incident. On 29 December 2007, Halo 3 star gamer Colin Fogel found...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 01-14-2008
Filed under: Internet Hacks, Internet Applications, Security
Blogger Battling Continuing Problems With ‘Illicit’ Blogs | TrendLabs | Malware Blog - by Trend Micro

Blogger Battling Continuing Problems With ‘Illicit’ Blogs January 9th, 2008 by Paul Ferguson Click for larger image. You’ve seen us blog about problems with Google’s Blogger service before , but now it appears to have an ongoing problem with “malicious” content of a different sort — illicit pages which...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 01-12-2008
Filed under: Internet Hacks, Security
Symantec Security Response Weblog: "Referer" Field Used in the Battle Against Online Fraud

"Referer" Field Used in the Battle Against Online Fraud The "referer" [sic] header is generally used to track back-links in order to understand how a certain Web site is being reached by its visitors (hyperlinks on other Web sites, search engines, etc.) According to the RFC2616 ,...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 01-11-2008
Filed under: Internet Hacks, Spam\Phishing, Security
McAfee Avert Labs Blog - Post and Packing scams

Post and Packing scams Wednesday December 5, 2007 at 6:43 am CST Posted by Chris Barton Trackback Tis the season to be shopping, tra la la la la but don’t get had. I’ve stumbled upon a scam where search engine product listings are being (ab)used for the classic (”#1 auction site”) +postage scam. Most...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 12-10-2007
Filed under: Internet Hacks, Security

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