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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

Free Microsoft Security Tool Locks Down Buggy Apps (EMET)

EMET, short for Enhanced Mitigation Evaluation Toolkit, allows developers and administrators to add specific security protections to applications. Unlike mitigations released in the past, EMET doesn't require programs to be recompiled, so it can be used Read More...
Posted Monday, November 02, 2009 10:48 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

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

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

Windows 7 and Security

As Windows 7 is not too far away and as many are allready using or testing Windows 7, here a list of interesting documentation: What's New in Windows 7 for IT Pros (Beta) http://technet.microsoft.com/de-de/library/dd349334(en-us).aspx Windows 7 Security Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 18, 2009 9:38 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

The Latest Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (v5)

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 Monday, January 12, 2009 11:36 AM by chsecblo | 2 Comments

Trojans Dominated Malware Threats in Dec. '08

Sunbelt Software has released its monthly data dump that charts the most commonly observed malware and spyware threats, and, as has been the case for a good while, trojan attacks continued to lead the way across the Top Ten rankings during Dec. 2008. Read More...
Posted Monday, January 12, 2009 11:33 AM by chsecblo | 1 Comments

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS08-078 – Critical avaiable now!

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS08-078 – Critical is now avaiable, patches are there and ready for download: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS08-078.mspx . Please install, update as soon as possible! Urs Read More...
Posted Wednesday, December 17, 2008 7:49 PM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Internet Explorer security levels compared

As a couple of people are looking at their IE currently, I found some interesting information on Steve Riley’s Technet blog: "A pretty good question came across the newsgroups the other day. Someone was asking what are the differences between IE's "medium" Read More...
Posted Tuesday, December 16, 2008 4:05 PM by chsecblo | 0 Comments
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