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Conficker's First Birthday Looms - Seven Million IPs Still Infected

As Conficker approaches the first anniversary of its appearance in the wild, the Shadowserver Foundation says that at least seven million IP addresses — each representing one or more computers — are now infected by the worm. http://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/view/4941/confickers-first-birthday-looms-seven-million-ips-still-infected/ Read More...
Posted Friday, November 06, 2009 10:59 AM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Microsoft Security Intelligence Report volume 7 (January - June 2009) released

The Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (SIR) provides an in-depth perspective on the changing threat landscape including software vulnerability disclosures and exploits, malicious software (malware), and potentially unwanted software. Using data derived Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 03, 2009 10:20 AM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Phishing, Worms Spike This Year, Say Microsoft and McAfee

Scammers are targeting social networks with phishing scams and relying more heavily on worms and Trojans to attack computers, according to security trend reports to be released Monday by Microsoft and McAfee. http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-10387768-245.html Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 03, 2009 10:18 AM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Windows 7 Security Story May Appeal to Enterprises

The Windows 7 security story has three main chapters that have received a fair amount of attention: DirectAccess, BitLocker To Go, and AppLocker. With these, as well as features such as BranchCache and enhancements to UAC (user account control), officials Read More...
Posted Monday, November 02, 2009 10:52 AM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Does Software Piracy Lead to Higher Malware Infection Rates?

Yes it does, at least according to a recently released report [PDF] by the Business Software Alliance (BSA) which basically correlates data on the known piracy rates for particular countries and their malware infection rates, using public sources. http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=4605&tag=col1;post-4605 Read More...
Posted Monday, October 19, 2009 4:06 PM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Inside the Password-Stealing Business: The Who and How of Identity Theft

With shopping and banking transactions occurring primarily online today, password stealing has become a common cyber crime. Whatever the vector of attack, in many cases some sort of password-stealing malware makes its way onto victims’ computers. McAfee Read More...
Posted Monday, September 28, 2009 7:50 AM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Microsoft SDL team releases new security tools

The Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) team at Microsoft released two security testing tools. BinScope Binary Analyzer BinScope is a Microsoft verification tool that analyzes binaries on a project-wide level to ensure that they have been built in compliance Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 17, 2009 8:08 AM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

SANS Outlines the Top Cyber Security Risks

SANS released the "Top Cyber Security Risks" report which covers March-August 2009. The report features attack data from TippingPoint intrusion prevention systems protecting 6,000 organizations, vulnerability data from 9,000,000 systems compiled by Qualys, Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 17, 2009 8:06 AM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Top 100 Virus-Infected Web Sites Exposed

Simply visiting one of the "Top 100 Dirtiest" Web sites - without downloading or even clicking anything - could expose your computer to infection and put your personal information into the hands of criminals, anti-virus software company Norton Symantec Read More...
Posted Saturday, September 05, 2009 5:44 PM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Windows Exploit Programming Primer

From SecurityTube: "We kick started the exploit code research series on SecurityTube by creating the assembly language primer (13 videos), buffer overflow basics (nine videos), and format string (in progress) exploitation videos. However, we concentrated Read More...
Posted Saturday, September 05, 2009 5:31 PM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Introduction to Malware Analysis — Free Webcast

From Lenny Zeltser: "My popular malware analysis course has helped IT administrators, security professionals, and malware specialists fight malicious code in their organizations. In this free webcast, I introduce the process of reverse-engineering malicious Read More...
Posted Saturday, September 05, 2009 5:29 PM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Majority of vulnerabilities now being exploited

The number of exploits being written to target specific software vulnerabilities could be at all-time highs, new threat figures have suggested. Fortinet's Threatscape report for June, which actually covers the period between 21 May and 20 June, reveals Read More...
Posted Monday, July 13, 2009 8:52 AM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Top 9 Dirty Tricks Scammers Use

What the average guy might call a con is known in the security world as social engineering. Social engineering is the criminal art of scamming a person into doing something or divulging sensitive information. These days, there are thousands of ways for Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 25, 2009 11:51 AM by chsecblo | 1 Comments

Conficker Advisories

Microsoft Conficker guidance page for IT Professionals and those focused on security in the enterprise: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/dd452420.aspx Microsoft Conficker guidance page for consumers and home users: http://www.microsoft.com/protect/computer/viruses/worms/conficker.mspx Read More...
Posted Monday, February 09, 2009 12:01 PM by chsecblo | 1 Comments

Slow And Silent Targeted Attacks On The Rise

And another one in the same direction: The most determined cyber criminals don't necessarily work fast when they breach a network, and their infiltration is often silent and undetectable. But it's this brand of "low and slow" targeted attack that can Read More...
Posted Monday, January 12, 2009 11:42 AM by chsecblo | 0 Comments
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