Archive for February, 2010

Hi everyone, On Friday 2/26/2010, an issue was posted publicly that could allow an attacker to host a maliciously crafted web page and run arbitrary code if they could convince a user to visit the web page and then get them to press the F1 key in response to a pop up dialog... »

If history is any gauge, this is probably the first of several incidents like this.The Register – which is worth reading twice a day for its insanely funny headlines if nothing else – is reporting that a hacker (hacktivist?), possibly British, who ... »

People looking to take advantage of the savings from the government during these harder financial times are being hit with other financial burdens (Rogue AV software).Our (environmentally conscious) researcher Adam Thomas heard about a “green&rdq... »

VirusTotal.com is a brilliant site that helps both public and researchers alike determine if an executable file they have is potentially malicious or not.Julio Canto (of VirusTotal fame) has noticed that s... »

tweetmeme_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2010/02/25/windows-server-2008-r2-migration-utilities-hyper-v-migration-guide-update.aspx'; We have just released an updated version of the Windows Server 2008 R2 Migration Utilities that now adds support for Hyper-V, plus we have updated the Hyper-V Migration Guide.  You can grab the bits from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5c1ec14a-e9d7-46ea-9c6e-73d6bc4219b4 And read the guide here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee849855(WS.10).aspx But what is this exactly? Simply put – this is a set of command... »

Very funny:The story starts with an guy insulting everyone on the IRC channel. Most people there believed it was rather funny, but it got even more funny. For information: The dangerous hacker is called bitchchecker and the one being hacked and origina... »

"Operation b49"Tim Cranton, Microsoft’s associate general counsel posted on the company’s official blog early this morning that Microsoft has shut down the Waledac botnet.He wrote:“On February 22, in response to a complaint filed by Microsoft ( »

Be careful if you’re using Twitter Search to find topics of interest, as multiple spambots are pasting links to rogue antivirus sites all over the place at the moment.Example:It goes without saying that the icons used for said accounts are extrem... »

(Swell tee-shirt available too!)Thanks to Bruce Schneier for drawing attention to this one on his blog: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/02/remotely_spying.htmlA security researcher named Stryde Hax has blogged about his research into the pub... »

I love this U.S. Geological Survey site web site and I just have to do a blog piece about it. I guess we could use the topic of “denial of availability risk” as the computer security category. It’s kind of like the tail wagging the do... »