Staying on top of the latest in software/hardware security research, vulnerabilities, threats and computer attacks.
Virus analysts at Kaspersky Lab (my employer) have intercepted a new variant of Gpcode, a malicious virus that encrypts important files on an infected desktop and demands payment for a key to recover the data.The biggest change in this variant of the ransomeware is the use of RSA encryption algorithm with a 1024-bit key, making it impossible to crack without without the author's key.
In a security bulletin issued two days ago, Skype's latest version fixes a File URI Security Bypass Code Execution Vulnerability originally reported by Ismael Briones : Remote exploitation of a security policy bypass in Skype could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code in the context of the user.The "file:" URI handler in Skype performs checks upon the URL to verify that the link does not contain certain file extensions related to executable file formats.
Microsoft on Thursday previewed three critical security bulletins addressing Internet Explorer, Bluetooth and DirectX in various flavors of Windows, including Vista.In its advance notification, Microsoft issued three critical bulletins for items to be patched June 10.
The recently introduced data availability initiative at MySpace allowing everyone to share their profile data with other community and social...
Metasploit, the open-source platform for developing, testing, and using exploit code, got its official project site briefly hijacked on Monday by a well known member of the Chinese underground who left the following message offering a new zero day exploit for sale - "hacked by sunwear! just for fun!
With the evolving sophistication of online scammers' understanding of social engineering and trust building online, the techniques they use to build authenticity into their scam propositions have started directly influencing a targeted brand's reputation online in the most negative way possible - the loss of a customer's trust into the brand's capabilities to defend itself against impersonation attacks.
Guest Editorial by Dino Dai ZoviIt has almost been a week since the Adobe Flash zero-day attack false alarm.
With the world's eyes on the latest multimedia streaming straight from Mars, during the weekend the Phoenix Mars Mission's site got hit twice, first by an Ukrainian web site defacer who posted a message at the site's blog, and hours later, the Turkish "sql loverz crew 2008" redirected the official mission's site, as well as the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory site to a third-part location serving the defaced page.
UPDATE: Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail's CAPTCHA broken by spammers. Jeff Yan and Ahmad Salah El Ahmad, at the School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, England recently published a research paper entitled "A Low-cost Attack on a Microsoft CAPTCHA", demonstrating how they've managed to attack the Microsoft's CAPTCHA used on several of their online services such as Hotmail and Windows Live, with over 92% recognition rate.
Microsoft has issued a formal security advisory with a confirmation of public warnings that the Safari "carpet bombing" vulnerability presents a remote code execution threat on all supported editions of Windows XP and Windows Vista.The pre-patch advisory from Redmond follows public pressure from the Google-backed StopBadware.
On the heels of last month's embarrassing site breach that allowed a hacker to redirect traffic from BarackObama.com to Hillary Clinton's Web site, the Obama campaign is looking to hire a network security expert to lock down its online operations.
Chinese girls talking about using SQL injections to serve malware and ARP spoofing, in between sharing do-it-yourself tutorials on XSS worms? Sexy.
A high-severity security flaw in the Creative Software automatic update engine could put Windows computers at risk of remote code execution attacks, according to a warning from the US-CERT (Computer Emergency Readiness Team).The vulnerability affects the software used to provide updates to Creative Labs' audio/video entertainment product line, which includes the popular Zen MP3 player line.
It's official, even a pothead can social engineer Network Solutions.
Apple makes a big deal -- and lots of funny commercials -- around the security profile of its products. On the Safari download site, the boast is that users get "worry-free Web browsing on any computer" because, in Cupertino's words, "Apple engineers designed Safari to be secure from day one.
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