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Increase in Exploit Attempts Against MS08-067
Security Intel Analysis Team @ 6:13 PM 11-22-2008Microsoft Security bulletin MS08-067 was an out-of-band security update that was released on October 23, 2008, to address a critical remotely exploitable vulnerability that was being exploited in t...[More ...]
Increase in USB-Based Malware Attacks
Security Intel Analysis Team @ 12:17 AM 11-20-2008Symantec is currently observing an increase in malicious applications that use USB flash drive devices as a propagation method. Just as a clarification for any of our readers that are not familiar ...[More ...]
Spammers Continue Their “Acquaintance” With the IRS – in November!
Dermot Harnett @ 5:21 PM 11-19-2008January to March is traditionally the time when taxpayers in the U.S. become reacquainted with their tax advisers as the mid-April “tax day” deadline looms. Unfortunately, this period h...[More ...]
Lost and Found
M.K. Low @ 3:16 PM 11-17-2008A while back I came across an article about a website that tries to reunite...[More ...]
A Smart Worm for a Smartphone – WinCE.PmCryptic.A
Andrea Lelli @ 10:41 PM 11-13-2008We have already seen a file infector working on smartphones (see WinCE.Duts.A) and a wo...[More ...]
Hosting Company Shutdown Causes Spam Volumes to Fall - For Now!
Dermot Harnett @ 7:59 PM 11-13-2008The recent shutdown of a San Jose-based Web hosting company named...[More ...]
Image Spammers Show That There is Some Fight Left in the Old Dog
Dermot Harnett @ 3:19 PM 11-13-2008Mark Twain once said, "It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.” And, this idea also seems important when considering image spammers. While image...[More ...]
Microsoft Patch Tuesday - November 2008
Robert Keith @ 7:25 PM 11-11-2008Hello and welcome to this month’s blog on the Microsoft patch releases. This is a light month, with two bulletins covering four vulnerabilities.
The only “Critical” is...[More ...]
Acrobat util.printf() Exploit Detected with Existing IPS Signatures
Sean Hittel @ 11:16 PM 11-07-2008It appears that last night, an exploit for the Acrobat util.printf() vulnerability was added to a well known Web attack toolkit....[More ...]
Spammers Continue to Wage Their Own U.S. Presidential Campaigns
Dermot Harnett @ 9:24 PM 11-05-2008While the U.S. voters have now been heard and are welcoming their new president, it is important for us to remember that the spam campaign is certainly not over. Spam levels averaged in at 76.4 per...[More ...]
