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Internet Phone Systems Become the Fraudster's Tool

Cyber criminals have found a new launching pad for their scams: the phone systems of small- and medium-sized businesses across the U.S. In recent weeks, they have hacked into dozens of telephone systems across the country, using them as a way to contact Read More...
Posted Monday, November 02, 2009 10:46 AM 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

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

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

Researchers Find a New Way to Attack the Cloud

Amazon and Microsoft have been pushing cloud-computing services as a low-cost way to outsource raw computing power, but the products may introduce new security problems that have yet to be fully explored, according to researchers at the University of Read More...
Posted Saturday, September 05, 2009 8:48 AM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

C64 as a webserver?! ;-)

An entire Web site has been 100% developed on the Commodore 64. The little keyboard box you see there and that big huge disk drive is where the Web page is stored. So… if it takes a while for the Web site to load on your computer, especially the picture, Read More...
Posted Monday, March 02, 2009 2:48 PM by chsecblo | 3 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

China running out of IP addresses

Chinese officials are calling for a mass migration to IPv6 after disclosing that they have only 830 days' worth of IPv4 resources left. Around 80 per cent of China's IPv4 resources have now been taken up. The country's IP allocation recently exceeded Read More...
Posted Tuesday, December 16, 2008 3:48 PM by chsecblo | 1 Comments

Microsoft Forefront Integration Kit for Network Access Protection

The Microsoft Forefront Integration Kit for Network Access Protection provides a way for two Microsoft technologies to work together: Forefront Client Security and Network Access Protection (NAP). Forefront Client Security is comprehensive anti-malware Read More...
Posted Friday, August 29, 2008 8:40 AM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Microsoft ISA Server not really a firewall?

From time to time, I have discussions about Microsoft Internet Acceleration Server (ISA) with people questioning if ISA is a real Firewall product. Many companies use ISA server, but as a proxy server or to protect their Windows servers (publishing exchange, Read More...
Posted Monday, July 07, 2008 8:34 AM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Microsoft ISA Server Service Pack 1 (SP1) released

List of problems that are fixed in Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2006 Service Pack 1: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943462 Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2006 Service Pack 1 document http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/6/6/6662d14d-52c3-445d-b9d1-6e373171f769/SP1_Feature_Doc_RTM.doc Read More...
Posted Monday, July 07, 2008 8:19 AM by chsecblo | 1 Comments

New Phishing/Storm Worm Variant Spreading

US-CERT has received reports of new phishing activity, some of which has been linked to Storm Worm. The latest activity is centered around messages related to the recent earthquake in China and the upcoming Olympic Games. This Trojan is spread via an Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 25, 2008 10:37 AM by chsecblo | 1 Comments

New Zlob variant reconfigures routers

A variant of the Zlob virus has emerged that can tweak DNS entries on standard commercial routers from an infected Windows PC. It uses a built-in list of standard router usernames and passwords. Successful attacks have already been observed on Linksys Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 25, 2008 10:32 AM by chsecblo | 2 Comments

Microsoft is winning the NAC war, expert says

Security guru Joel Snyder from Opus One recently starred as the guest of a live Network World chat where he discussed the state of network access control. Snyder says that Microsoft is emerging as one of the clear winners of NAC, but that Microsoft's Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 27, 2008 10:32 AM by chsecblo | 1 Comments

Managing the Windows Vista Firewall

If you're an IT pro who is looking a bit more seriously at Windows Vista for your enterprise environment, you should take a close look at the firewall. Once you realize what the Windows Vista firewall can do, you may want to renegotiate the agreement Read More...
Posted Monday, May 26, 2008 1:58 PM by chsecblo | 2 Comments
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