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Herding Cats: No Bubble People (February 2012)
kitten, by Clevergrrl Have you checked out ISSA Connect yet? The next issue is up there with my column, No Bubble People. We must assume malware will end up in our network. Unless we treat our users...
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Fair-weather Facebook Friends
Next week I’m talking to a gathering of senior policemen et al about PC support scams and, among other things, how those unpleasant “you need to pay us to clean your viruses” phone calls are bolstered...
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JS.Alescurf Trojan
Systems Affected: Windows 98, Windows 95, Windows XP, Solaris, Windows Me, Windows Vista, Windows NT, Windows Server 2003, Linux, Windows 2000 JS.Alescurf is a detection for malicious code that can be...
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Security vendors can no longer ignore patch management
While AV software derails a lot of potentially harmful attacks, it is only one component of a comprehensive security solution.
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What We’re Reading, Week of 1/30
Ars Technica, World IPv6 Launch: This Time It’s For Real SearchEnterpriseWAN, Remote access problems: BYOD muddies the water evolving with consumerization Healthcare Info Security, Healthcare Breaches:...
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Super Sunday means Super Scams
The Super Bowl, the much-hyped championship American pro football game, will be broadcast this Sunday night to an estimated 200 million people. Any major sporting event from the Australian Open to the...
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Google Bouncer Purports to Stop Malware on Android Devices
Now that Google revealed it’s been using something called the “Bouncer” to scan apps for malware before they’re placed into the Android Market, users shouldn’t have to worry about getting malware...
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Google responds to Android app Market security with stronger scanning measures
In response to recent reports that malicious apps may have made their way into the official Android Market, Google has responded by announcing a new program to more proactively scan the Market and...
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Get Ready to Play Some Cyber Wargames
FBI Director Robert Mueller told the U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence this week that cyberthreats will equal or surpass the threat from counterterrorism in the relatively near...
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The Patchwork Cloud – baby steps, an overview
Working my way back into cloud I'd like to start a series called "The Patchwork Cloud" taking a realistic focus on the use-cases of cloud computing in today's technology and business environments....
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DLP lesson: Embarrassing: Anonymous tapes FBI – Scotland Yard Conference Call
Many outlets, amongst them the Wall Street Journal report today that the Anonymous hacker group ‘intercepted’ a conference call held by the FBI and Scotland Yard. They report, WASHINGTON—The Federal...
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Start at the beginning!
RSA recently published the SBIC report entitled ‘Getting Ahead of Advanced Threats’ a copy of which can be found here; Security for Business Innovation Council report. It introduces the concept of...
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Anonymous Hacks FBI, Scotland Yard Conference Call — Red Faces All Around
Anonymous has struck again in one of its most outrageous and daring hacks ever -- the loose-knit group of worldwide hackers became participants in a cross-country, cross-Atlantic conference call...
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Direct Shellcode Execution via MS Office Macros with Metasploit
scriptjunkie recently had a post on Direct shellcode execution in MS Office macros I didnt see it go into the metasploit trunk, but its there. How to generate macro code is in the post but i'll repost...
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Death to PDF!
SpiderLabs customers are frustrated with PDF reports: You can’t search them You can’t sort them You can’t assign pieces of them You can’t trend them PenTest Manager, the reporting tool used by...
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Dead BotNet Spams From Other Side
Meanwhile, in BotNet news, we learn of the apparent rising from the ashes of the proverbial bitwise pyre by Kelihos, and it’s nefarious blunderings out and about; regardless of the declared morte of...
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Beacon Podcast – Episode 015
Hurricane Labs Beacon Podcast Episode Number: .015 – Super Bowl Edition Hosts: Bill Mathews (@billford), Matt Yonchak (@mattyonchak), Steve McMaster (@iamthemcmaster), Patrick Sayler (@psayler)...
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Koterba: Personal Library
via the genius of Jeffery Koterba originally at LaughingSquid.com
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