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Increase in USB-Based Malware Attacks
Security Intel Analysis Team @ Thu Nov 20 00:17:03 GMT 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 @ Wed Nov 19 17:21:14 GMT 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 @ Mon Nov 17 15:16:26 GMT 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 @ Thu Nov 13 22:41:15 GMT 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 @ Thu Nov 13 19:59:49 GMT 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 @ Thu Nov 13 15:19:06 GMT 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 @ Tue Nov 11 19:25:23 GMT 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 @ Fri Nov 07 23:16:59 GMT 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 @ Wed Nov 05 21:24:21 GMT 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 ...]
Spammers Ride the Economic Roller-Coaster in October 2008
Dermot Harnett @ Wed Nov 05 12:26:25 GMT 2008As the gut-wrenching roller coaster that world economies have experienced over the last 90 days continues, it is not surprising that spammers are still attempting to tap into the economic angle to ...[More ...]
