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FYI... - http://www.benedelman.org/news/031407-1.html March 14, 2007 ~ "...Despite their duties to the NYAG, both Cingular and Travelocity have failed to sever their ties with spyware vendors. As shown in the six examples below, Cingular and Travelocity continue to receive spyware-originating...

FYI... - http://preview.tinyurl.com/yr53aa March 12, 2007 ~ "...DNS servers came through February's attack relatively unscathed because of the Anycast load-balancing technology put in place after the last major attack in 2002. The attack targeted six of the 13 root servers. The two servers that...

FYI... - http://www.siteadvisor.com/studies/map_malweb_mar2007.html March 12, 2007 ~ "Online safety risks are a truly global issue. Yet differences in threats vary significantly by country and other factors, for example: * A consumer is almost 12 times more likely to encounter a...

FYI... - http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=2403 Last Updated: 2007-03-11 02:28:28 UTC ~ "Although it's labeled as an alpha release -and therefore should really be handled with care- the idea behind Firekeeper* makes it worth mentioning now. We all love snort: it's basically free, pretty...

FYI... - http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/advance.mspx Updated: March 8, 2007 "On March 13, 2007 Microsoft is planning to release: Security Updates • No new Microsoft Security Bulletins will be released on March 13, 2007..." - http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=2379 Last...

FYI... - http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=197700463 March 1, 2007 ~ "Virus writers have been pummeling corporate networks and consumers with their latest trick - malware that wraps itself in a variety of masks to evade detection by antivirus programs...

US-CERT: > http://www.us-cert.gov/current/#sunwrmexinet updated March 1, 2007 Solaris.Wanukdoor - http://www.symantec.com/security_response/writeup.jsp?docid=2007-022810-0202-99&tabid=3 Updated: March 1, 2007 Also Known As: SunOS/Wanukdoor [McAfee] Type: Trojan "...Once the threat attacks a...

FYI... > http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2006-6490 Last revised: 2/23/2007 CVSS Severity: 10.0 (High) Range: Remotely exploitable Authentication: Not required to exploit Impact Type: Provides administrator access, Allows complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation...

Wow. These folks are amazing! Despite the DDoS and all, they still want to give away all this stuff!!! - http://www.castlecops.com/modules.php?name=Contest2007 "The Contest celebrates CastleCops five years of operation and recognizes its volunteer community outstanding achievements and...

Pandemic of the botnets FYI... - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6298641.stm 25 January 2007 ~ "Criminals controlling millions of personal computers are threatening the internet's future, experts have warned. Up to a quarter of computers on the net may be used by cyber criminals in...

FYI... - http://preview.tinyurl.com/2ubp3y February 15, 2007 ~ "If you haven't changed the default password on your home router, do so now. That's what researchers at Symantec and Indiana University are saying, after publishing the results of tests that show how attackers could take over your...

FYI... - http://secunia.com/advisories/24016/ Release Date: 2007-02-01 Critical: Moderately critical Impact: DoS Where: From remote Solution Status: Vendor Patch ...The vulnerabilities are reported in various versions prior to 0.99.5. Solution: Update to version 0.99.5... Original Advisory...

FYI... - http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2007/01/in_praise_of_the_phish_fighter.html January 31, 2007 ~ "...February marks the 5th anniversary of CastleCops.com -- an all-volunteer led forum that has morphed from a place where people can diagnose security problems with their PCs into...

FYI... More phish than viruses now... per MessageLabs - http://preview.tinyurl.com/2sa89n Monthly Report: January 2007 ~ "Top line results of this report include: Spam – 75.8% in January (an increase of 1.5% since December) Viruses – One in 119.9 emails in January contained malware (an increase...

FYI... MS Updates Vista Before Roll-out - http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=197001741 Jan. 30, 2007 ~ "The downloads include fixes for installing the OS on PCs with more than 3GB of memory, troubles connecting with a VPN, and performance issues in IE 7...

FYI... - http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/442497 1.24.2007 ~ "Solution: Apply Update: This issue is addressed in Apple Security Update 2007-001... An update for Microsoft Windows XP and 2000 systems is available via the Apple Software Update* application installed with QuickTime 7.1.3..." (NOTE...

FYI... - http://www.optimizemag.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196902283 January 2007 ~ " Does anybody really know what time it is? Hopefully, they will on March 11, when the new daylight savings time kicks in - three weeks earlier than it did in previous years. Despite the congressionally...

FYI... - http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/archive-012007.html#00001085 January 18, 2007 ~ "...The Warezov gang is using variants of Warezov and Medbot/Horst to send out medication and replica spam. The Rustock gang is using Mailbot.AZ and variants to send out stock spam. The Warezov gang...

FYI... Cross-Site (XSS) bug in GMail - http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?storyid=1995 Last Updated: 2007-01-02 06:41:08 UTC "Google starts into 2007 with a feature that allows bad guys to steal your GMail contacts list. http://blogs.zdnet.com/Google/ has more. But before you follow any links today...

Christmas-themed malware on the Web Geez. Will it ever stop... 'guess not: - http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/archive-122006.html#00001057 December 23, 2006 "We've just received a sample of something that's called CHRISTMAS.EXE. When run, this IRCBot variant will try to download various...