Archive for July 30th, 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: ... »