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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

Cybersecurity Today: The Wild, Wild West

If you purchased a brand new computer today with all the latest security software and plug it into the Internet, how long would it be before the first hacker probed it? Answer : About four hours... http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=12100CEDYE09 Read More...
Posted Monday, September 28, 2009 7:54 AM 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

Where in the World do Viruses come from?

The U.S. continues to dominate as the main source of the world's viruses, producing 15.9 percent of all viruses. It is followed closely by Brazil, which produces 14.5 percent (similar levels to last month's 14.1 percent). You can see more about virus Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 17, 2009 8:19 AM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Hacking Your Life (oh oh...)

A Virginia woman discovered that her married boyfriend had other girlfriends, and she decided to seek revenge online. According to federal prosecutors, she hired computer hackers to help. Elaine Cioni paid hackers $100 [U.S] for the password to her boyfriend’s Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 17, 2009 8:14 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

New Attack Cracks Common Wi-Fi Encryption in a Minute

Computer scientists in Japan say they've developed a way to break the WPA encryption system used in wireless routers in about one minute. Last November, security researchers first showed how WPA could be broken, but the Japanese researchers have taken Read More...
Posted Saturday, September 05, 2009 5:35 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

The Phishing Guide: Understanding and Preventing Phishing Attacks

This paper [PDF] covers the technologies and security flaws phishers exploit to conduct their attacks, and provides detailed vendor-neutral advice on what organisations can do to prevent future attacks. Security professionals and customers can use this Read More...
Posted Saturday, September 05, 2009 9:00 AM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Security Risk as People Use Same Password on All Websites

The research reveals that nearly half (46 percent) of Britons use the same password to login to their banking, shopping and social networking sites with a further 54 percent confessing to using variations of the same password. And with the average person Read More...
Posted Saturday, September 05, 2009 8:52 AM by chsecblo | 0 Comments
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