December 2006 - Posts

DoD Battles Spear Phishing
This is a very interesting article: http://www.fcw.com/article97186-12-26-06-Web My favorite part of the article (emphasis added is all mine): "JTF-GNO illustrated the sophistication of spear phishing attacks DOD faces in a “DOD Spear Phishing Awareness Read More...
Posted 28 December 06 10:35 by Robert_Hensing | 0 Comments   
Secunia Software Inspector
Soooo Secunia entered the vulnerability assesment market last week with a free tool they call the 'Software Inspector' . . . the concept is you download this Java applet and run it on your machine and it will report what software is vulnerable and needs Read More...
Posted 14 December 06 02:30 by Robert_Hensing | 0 Comments   
Microsoft's New Identity - Secure OS Vendor?
Roger Grimes has a great piece here on some of the hundreds of security improvements / tweaks we've made to Vista: http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/12/08/50OPsecadvise_1.html?source=NLC-STOADV2006-12-11 Read More...
Posted 12 December 06 08:53 by Robert_Hensing | 0 Comments   
On the topic of opening file attachments in a post Web 1.0 world . . .
So this week we released another security advisory in response to targeted attacks making use of a malicious office document as the attack vector . . . and in it we make the following statement which seems to have caused a stir in some circles: "Do not Read More...
Posted 08 December 06 08:48 by Robert_Hensing | 0 Comments   
W32/HLLP.Philis.bq, Chinese gold farmers and what you can do about it. :)
Just read a fascinating blog post from the folks over at Secureworks. Basically they noted that W32/HLLP.Philis.bq has been spreading in certain parts of the world. They also noted that recently a Chinese national was arrested in Japan for sending lots Read More...
Posted 04 December 06 08:59 by Robert_Hensing | 1 Comments   
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