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November 2005 - Posts

ET could hack the Internet

It is time for some weird messages: A top scientist warns from a possible hack by aliens: http://www.scmagazine.com/us/news/article/529846/et-hack-internet/ Therefore: Do not open e-mails from unkown extraterrestrials Roger Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 29, 2005 8:53 PM by chsecblo | 1 Comments

Practical Guide to Alternative Data Streams in NTFS

Alternative Data Stream support was added to NTFS (Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Windows XP) to help support Macintosh Hierarchical File System (HFS) which uses resource forks to store icons and other information for a file. While this is the intended Read More...
Posted Monday, November 21, 2005 10:00 PM by chsecblo | 3 Comments

Microsoft Goes Outside For Phishing Help

Microsoft on Thursday announced it would pull data on phishing sites from three new partners in an attempt to boost the effectiveness of its anti-fraud technology. The three firms New York based Cyota, Tacoma, Wash. based Internet Identity, and San Francisco Read More...
Posted Monday, November 21, 2005 5:06 PM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Exchange Server 2003 Common Criteria Certification

Microsoft is deeply committed to optimizing the security of its products and services. As part of that commitment, Microsoft strongly supports the Common Criteria certification program¡a commitment that is directly reflected in its successful effort to Read More...
Posted Friday, November 18, 2005 8:40 AM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

VoIP Security Whitepaper

Nothing extremely urgent but extremely interesting: The BSI (Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik, Germany) published a study about VoIP security: http://downloads.bsi-fuer-buerger.de/literat/studien/VoIP/voipsec.pdf (I appologize - in Read More...
Posted Monday, November 14, 2005 7:06 AM by chsecblo | 2 Comments

Sony's DRM to be removed by Microsoft Anti-Spyware

We haven been asked frequently whether our Anti-Spyware solution will detect and remove the Sony DRM-Rootkit. To make it short, yes we will. You will find the corresponding blog-entry by Jason Grams: http://blogs.technet.com/antimalware/archive/2005/11/12/414299.aspx Read More...
Posted Sunday, November 13, 2005 8:24 PM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

First backdoor (bot) uses Sony DRM software to hide

Breplibot.b is a backdoor with bot capabilities. It connects to several IRC servers and waits for commands from the backdoor author. The backdoor tries to utilize Sony DRM software for hiding its process, file and registry keys. An AV vendor discuses Read More...
Posted Friday, November 11, 2005 9:01 PM by chsecblo | 136 Comments

Microsoft Security Advisory: Macromedia Flash Player Vulnerabilities

Microsoft released a security Advisory on recent security vulnerabilities in Macromedia Flash Player, a third party software application that also was redistributed with Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 1, Windows XP Service Pack 2, Windows 98, Windows Read More...
Posted Friday, November 11, 2005 8:58 PM by chsecblo | 310 Comments

Hidden Administrator Accounts with No Passwords on Sony Vaio?

If this article is actually true, then the Sony setup creates under certain circumstances a hidden Adminsitrator account with empty passwords. You would better check out your installation if you have such a notebook. You find more information on: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2005-11/0101.html Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 08, 2005 8:36 PM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Announcing Windows Defender!

From the product team directly: Every week seems like a big week for us in the engineering team working on our anti-malware technology. However, last week was especially important in a sentimental way. We got the final name for the cool technology our Read More...
Posted Monday, November 07, 2005 10:04 AM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Security goes "Life"

You probably saw our recent announcements about Windows Life and Office Life. As part of Windows Life there is the Windows Life Safety Center. Check out the Beta at http://safety.live.com . It's cool stuff. Just to make it clear: It is an online scanner Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 03, 2005 8:38 PM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

The dark side of the force: Rootkits to enforce DRM!

Some DRM systems have started to use rootkit technology. Rootkits are normally associated with malware but in this case a rootkit is used to enforce the copy control policies of audio CDs! DRM software restricts the user's ability to make copies of a Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 02, 2005 9:19 PM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

When do we see the first automated IM worm?

Bascially there are two attack vectors that have not yet been exploited heavily: Mobile Devices and Instant Messaging. There are some articles that expect that a fully automated IM worm is pretty likely. One example for this is: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1880026,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03129TX1K0000614 Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 02, 2005 8:55 PM by chsecblo | 2 Comments
 
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