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Hack-In-The-Box:

  • RSS “Keeping Knowledge Free”
    • Fake RIAA copyright violation notification serves malware February 21, 2012
      First spotted nearly a week ago, notifications of copyright violation supposedly sent by the Recording Industry Association of America are still hitting inboxes around the world. The sender's email address is spoofed to make the message seem legitimate, and the email contains a warning and an attachment that the user is asked to open in order to see det […]
    • Obama signature could bring surveillance drones to your backyard February 21, 2012
      President Obama last week signed the FAA Air Transportation Modernization and Safety Improvement Act of 2012. Tucked inside the legislation is a provision that could have far-reaching implications in the coming decade: widespread civilian use of unmanned aerial drones.Tags: PrivacyGOVLaw and Order […]
    • OS X Mountain Lion Gatekeeper: Can it Really Keep Malware Out? February 21, 2012
      OS X Mountain Lion has extended the functionality of its predecessor viz. Mac OS X Lion by adding over 100 new features to it. Gatekeeper is one of those news features and it provides a whole new security mechanism for Mac users.Tags: AppleSecurityOS XViruses & Malware […]


SANS Handlers Diary:

F-Secure Weblog:

  • RSS “Weblog of the F-Secure Antivirus Research Team”
    • Nightline Takes "A Trip to The iFactory"
      Nightline, a U.S. news program, will air what's being billed as a special episode this evening on the ABC network. In it, Nightline Co-Anchor Bill Weir will tour Foxconn's factory floor. If you haven't heard of Foxconn, they're the company that manufactures devices such as iPad, iPhone, Kindle, PlayStation 3, Wii, and the Xbox 360.Weir […]
    • Network Security, Circa 1990
      AT&T recently released a film from its archive called "Computer Security: You Make The Difference".While you might chuckle at the 1990's music and production values – the truth is this – many of basic issues that the video (which is a series of films stitched together) attempts to illustrate are still with us today, 22 years later.And that […]
    • Mountain Lion's Gatekeeper: More Control For "You"
      Yesterday, Apple released Mac OS X Mountain Lion Developer Preview. From a security perspective, its most interesting new feature is Gatekeeper, which restricts installation of downloaded applications based on their source."Allow applications downloaded from: Mac App Store; Mac App Store and identified developers; Anywhere"The default setting is re […]

Kasperky Lab Weblog:

  • RSS “Analyst’s Diary”
    • The where and why of HLUX February 15, 2012
      This is not the first time the HLUX botnet has been mentioned in this blog, but there are still some unanswered questions that we’ve been receiving from the media: What is the botnet’s sphere of activity? What sort of commands does it receive from malicious users? How does the bot spread? How many infected computers are there in the botnet?Before answering t […]
    • Patch Tuesday February 2012 February 14, 2012
      Microsoft is releasing 9 Security Bulletins this month (MS12-008 through MS12-016), patching a total 21 vulnerabilities. Some of these vulnerabilities may enable remote code execution (RCE) in limited circumstances, and offensive security researchers have claimed that a "bug" fixed this month should be client-side remote exploitable, but after mont […]
    • Will the PIN hacks be the end of Google Wallet? February 14, 2012
      Last week researchers found vulnerabilities in the Google Wallet payment system. The first vulnerability was found by Zvelo, which required root access. Rooting devices has become just short of trivial at this point with the availability of “one-click root” applications for most platforms. The vulnerability was leveraged to display the current PIN number. Th […]

InfoSec Writers:

IT Observer:

  • RSS “Information Technology Security Magazine”
    • Websense Wireless Security Expert to Present on Emerging Security & Web Content Threats in 3G at QuEST Forum EMEA January 20, 2009
      Websense, Inc. (Nasdaq: WBSN), a global leader in web security and web filtering productivity software, today announced that Mark Fogel, vice president for Websense(R) Wireless, a Division of Websense, Inc., will be giving a presentation on Emerging Security & Web Content Threats in 3G at the third annual QuEST Forum (Quality Excellence for Suppliers of […]
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    • AI-based Security Appliance Stops MySpace Email Scam January 15, 2009
      Espion has announced the discovery of the first email-based MySpace Spam Scam. At 5:35pm EST an email was trapped in our unprotected honey pot. At the same time an identical email was stopped by Espion´s Interceptor anti-spam and security appliance. The trapped email looks like a legitimate message from MySpace with the subject reading [New message […]
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    • Compliance and mobility govern security January 15, 2009
      The one segment in IT that has seen tremendous growth over the past few years is security. Despite advances in technology, security threats are growing at an alarming rate. The Indian network security market experienced a healthy growth in 2005 reaching about $116 million, up 70 percent compared to last year, says business consulting firm […]
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    • Winny Virus Wrecks Data Havoc In Japan January 15, 2009
      Top-secret military information, business documents of hundreds of corporate firms , personal and confidential data related to thousands of patients, complete information of Yahoo shopping mall, high profile information of Liberal Democratic Party and thousands more are all floating currently on the internet, creating an enormous flood of information leakage […]
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    • Protection from Emerging Virus Threats January 15, 2009
      Today’s malware distributors skirt traditional defenses by exploiting the zero hour gap, the time it takes to identify the attacking malware and write signatures that can detect and neutralize it. Recent studies have shown the lag time or gap between when a virus is recognized and a signature written to combat it can range from […]
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