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Apple patches Quicktime

Apple has taken another swing at fixing a troublesome spate of QuickTime vulnerabilities. The company released an update for the Windows version of QuickTime media player on Wednesday afternoon to patch what Apple calls a "command injection issue" in the way the media player handles URLs. The...

Posted to John at myITforum.com (Weblog) by jgormly on 10-05-2007
Filed under: Security, News
Beware of email Support to Burma

SECURITY FIRM Sophos has warned that an email doing the rounds and purporting to be written by the Dalai Lama has a malicious attachment.Beware of this kind of email “Dear Friends & Colleagues, Please find enclosed a massage from His Holiness the Dalai Lama in support of the recent pro democracy...

Posted to John at myITforum.com (Weblog) by jgormly on 09-30-2007
Filed under: Security, News
AOL IM Security Hole Unplugged?

Researcher Aviv Raff said he has found a way to defeat the patch that AOL issued to address an IM vulnerability. A day after users of AOL's instant messaging service were advised to upgrade to address a vulnerability uncovered by Core Security Technologies, well-known security researcher Aviv Raff...

Posted to John at myITforum.com (Weblog) by jgormly on 09-26-2007
Filed under: Security, News
25 Years of Computer Viruses...

How many do you remember... ELK CLONER, 1982: Regarded as the first virus to hit personal computers worldwide, "Elk Cloner" spread through Apple II floppy disks and displayed a poem written by its author, a ninth-grade student who was designing a practical joke. BRAIN, 1986: "Brain"...

Posted to John at myITforum.com (Weblog) by jgormly on 09-03-2007
Filed under: Security, News
Sony halts production of rootkit USB sticks - Security - www.itnews.com.au

Sony has ceased production of three Microvault USB memory key models that pose a potential security risk to Windows computers. The spokesperson said that the elecontronics manufacturer stopped shipments of the product earlier this month. Rather than security concerns, however, the company phased out...

Posted to John at myITforum.com (Weblog) by jgormly on 09-03-2007
Filed under: Security, News
Governor Reports Additional Data Found on Stolen State Data Device

Update to the blog on Ohio state data on a missing laptop...check out what Gov. Ted is reporting now: Ohio Governor Ted Strickland today announced the state has determined that additional information is contained on the computer back-up device stolen last week, and will extend Debix services to taxpayers...

Posted to John at myITforum.com (Weblog) by jgormly on 07-13-2007
Filed under: Security, News
Malware Removal Starter Kit

Released today is a new free tool from Microsoft, this is a solution accelerator with scanning tools included. This includes making a WindowsPE CD to boot from to scan a computer for malware. "This guidance provides a set of tasks that licensed Windows® users can perform at no cost to create the...

Posted to The Daily Ramblings of an SMS Engineer (Weblog) by aclendenen on 07-11-2007
Filed under: Security, News, Microsoft
Browser Plugin Highlights Malware

The company Finjan has announced a browser plugin for Internet Explorer and Firefox that will detect and alert the user to malware infested links, ads, and search results with their new tool titled SecureBrowsing. It works by scanning the pages code in real time and then highlighting potentially malicious...

Posted to The Daily Ramblings of an SMS Engineer (Weblog) by aclendenen on 02-06-2007
Filed under: Security, News
New Version of Windows Defender

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=435bfce7-da2b-4a6a-afa4-f7f14e605a0d&displaylang=en Specific features of Windows Defender include: A redesigned and simplified user interface – Incorporating feedback from our customers, the Windows Defender UI has been redesigned to...

Posted to The Daily Ramblings of an SMS Engineer (Weblog) by aclendenen on 10-24-2006
Filed under: Tools, Security, News
Can you be sued for securely deleting your own files?

Interesting Police Blotter over at CNet. What happened? An employee quits the company he works for to go to work for someone else. The problem? When he returned his laptop, he had deleted all of his files on his laptop, permanently, securely, so that the files can’t be recoverable. The company...

Posted to John at myITforum.com (Weblog) by jgormly on 03-11-2006
Filed under: Security, News

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