Archive for July, 2010

On MondayMicrosoft has announced that it will make public an out-of-band patch to fix the high-profile .lnk file vulnerability (CVE-2010-2568).Holly Stewart, MMPC, wrote today: “As mentioned earlier this month, the Microsoft Malware Protection Center... »

Patrick Jordan, our researcher who seems to live in places on the Internet where NOBODY should go, has begun to notice a trend. Billing through cell phone accounts is a growing vector for social engineers.Beware of any online contest, quiz or survey th... »

Ok. Just because they put out a news release, doesn’t make them legitimate.Our good friends over at PhishLabs drew our attention to this one: a rogue security product called Shield EC that is using mainstream public relations techniques to make t... »

Jack.tv is a cable TV network in the Philippines. It seems someone has been doing their best to change the channel: Click to Enlarge They haven’t tampered with the frontpage of the site - they’ve placed the above splash elsewhere, presumably to... »

tweetmeme_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/b/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2010/07/29/linux-integration-services-v2-1-now-available.aspx'; Over on the virtualization team blog – Mike Sterling has just announced the availability of the Linux Integration Services v2.1.  And there is a lot to announce here.  Along with the previous support for our high performance virtual storage and network adapters – this release brings in the following new features: ... »

Today we're announcing plans to release a security update to address the vulnerability discussed in Security Advisory 2286198 on Monday, August 2, 2010 at or around 10 AM PDT.  We are releasing the bulletin as we've completed the required testing and the update has achieved the appropriate quality bar for broad distribution to customers. Additionally,... »

Sunbelt Software is raising its Worldwide Threat Level to “high” in light of unpatched vulnerabilities in three widely-used applications or systems and the Defcon and Black Hat conferences in Las Vegas this week.Internet users should:-- be sure ant... »

“Facebooik.com” – not goodA domain registered in a tiny town in Georgia is presenting fumble-fingered Facebook fans with few fun-filled hours of diversion:It’s one of those interminable contest sites we’ve all come to know... »

Two years ago, in front of a standing-room only crowd here at Black Hat, we introduced three new information sharing programs as well as the concept of Community-Based Defense. The underlying concept shared by all three programs was simple-collaboration will be key to preventing and defending against online crime going forward; no one company,... »

The Register is reporting that police in Slovenia have arrested a 23-year-old man, who went by the handle Iserdo, and charged him with writing and selling the code that has been used to create the Mariposa botnet.Iserdo and two other suspects were take... »