November 13th, 2006 . by joe
Microsoft admitted today on a company blog that Vista will not be immune to viruses and will need an antivirus utility installed. Well, no duh!
Windows Vista does require antivirus stoftware after all, Windows chief Jim Allchin wrote on a company blog.
“I want to be clear, most users will use some form of antivirus software, and that will be appropriate for their scenarios,” Allchin wrote.
The co-president of platform and services responded to media reports last week that quoted him as saying that the forthcoming operating system didn’t need any antivirus software because of it’s enhanced security. Allchin countered that the remarks were taken out of context.
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November 9th, 2006 . by joe
Google on Tuesday inadvertently sent the Kama Sutra e-mail worm to the 50,000 subscribers of a Google Video e-mail group.
Three messages were posted Tuesday evening to an e-mail list that sends out alerts about additions to the Google Video blog. “Some of these posts may have contained a virus called W32/Kapser.A@mm–a mass-mailing worm,” Google said in a note on its Web site apologizing for the incident.
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October 15th, 2006 . by joe
This type of story is happening more and more lately. For those who are not aware, Microsoft is only willing to release security patches once per month, except for cases where the patch plugs a DRM hole. Because of this fact, hackers have started to release zero-day attacks a day or two after the monthly batch of security patches are released. This strategy guarantees that they can have their way with your machine for a full month before Microsoft patches the hole. This newest vulnerability is not thought to be as bad but it is being released on this same schedule.
Just days after Microsoft issued a record 26 patches, including 16 for Office, on Friday Symantec confirmed that just-released exploit code attacks a new, zero-day vulnerability in the PowerPoint presentation software.
According to Symantec’s alert, the exploit triggers a crash of PowerPoint. “It does not appear that the vulnerability can be leveraged to execute code, however the possibility has not been conclusively eliminated,” said Symantec to customers of its DeepSight threat system. “[We have] tested the exploit and it is confirmed to work as advertised.” Danish vulnerability tracker Secunia rated the threat as “highly critical,” its second-highest warning rank.
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October 15th, 2006 . by joe
It appears that McDonalds in Japan had a giveaway where the prize was an mp3 player infected with qqpass. Why would McDonalds ever think they could get away with this??
In all 10,000 winners were announced and each got a Mac branded flash DAP preloaded with 10 tunes. However the MP3 players were infected with QQpass a very dangerous malware. So your PC is infected once you connect the DAP and it starts logging and transmitting username, passwords and other vital information. McDonalds Japan has apologized and set up a 24 hour helpline for those affected by the spyware loaded MP3 player.
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October 9th, 2006 . by joe
It looks like this past Friday, the United States Commerce Department admitted this past friday that they have been the target of a DDoS attack for more then a month now. The attack has originated from Chinese IP addresses and it is so bad that the commerce department is looking to replace hardware in an attempt to harden it’s systems. One popular theory regarding this attack is that it is a botnet of home machines that may not of even been controlled from within the country.
I hate it when people don’t take the time to secure their systems.
The federal government’s Commerce Department admitted Friday that heavy attacks on its computers by hackers working through Chinese servers have forced the bureau responsible for granting export licenses to lock down Internet access for more than a month.
An attack against computers of the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) — the branch of Commerce responsible for overseeing U.S. exports which have both commercial and military applications — forced BIS to turn off Internet access in early September.
An unnamed senior Commerce official also said the department has decided it could not trust the computers — which were infected with rootkits — and will replace them rather than try to clean them. In the meantime, BIS workers have been hampered by the inability to easily communicate with other federal and state agencies, or with the companies applying for export licenses.
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