Beware of fake Adobe Flash installs

August 5th, 2008 No Comments »

Adobe is reporting an unusually high number of social networking sites hosting fake Adobe Flash installations.  These installations are installing malicious software on to your computer.   Like all software [...] Continue Reading…

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Author: Christopher

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Malware Statistics July 2008

August 2nd, 2008 No Comments »

Throughout July the majority (76%) of all malware identified fell into the Trojan category. Of the 20,704 unique malware findings in July, 20,000 of them were found in the [...] Continue Reading…

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In the wild: DNS Cache Poisoning

July 30th, 2008 No Comments »

Three publicly available DNS exploits are available that exploit the recent DNS vulnerabilities brought to light by Dan Kaminsky.  These exploits have been downloaded over 15,000 times, although we [...] Continue Reading…

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Author: Christopher

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Your DNS is Vulnerable!

July 9th, 2008 1 Comment »

There are currently known vulnerabilities with DNS servers across all implementations.  These vulnerabilities are not vendor specific, in fact all DNS distributions are vulnerable.  I recommend all organizations develop [...] Continue Reading…

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In the Battle Against Junk E-mail, the Human is the Most Vulnerable

June 15th, 2008 No Comments »

These days, companies utilize many technologies to protect corporate resources, such as e-mail scanners, firewalls, web proxies, anti-virus suites, and spam filters.  Keeping up with the latest scams, exploits, [...] Continue Reading…

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New Survey Lists Top Eleven Botnets

May 31st, 2008 No Comments »

New Survey Lists Top Eleven Botnets

Joe Stewart, director of malware research at SecureWorks Inc., presented a survey ranking the top 11botnets that send an estimated 100 billion spam messages [...] Continue Reading…

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