Samsung Handsets Distributed With Malware-Infected Memory Cards

Another mobile-phone manufacturer has fallen victim to an increasingly common attack in which phones’ memory cards are infected with malware during the manufacturing process and then shipped out to customers. The latest victim is Samsung, which has acknowledged that the microSD cards in a batch o...

Facebook Plagued By Sexiest Video Ruse

A huge attack by a rogue Facebook application last weekend infected users’ PCs with popup-spewing adware, said a researcher. Read the full article. Computerworld...

iPhone Unlock Utility Actually a DNS Trojan

An application that offers to unlock iPhones is actually designed to hijack internet connections on compromised Windows PCs, security watchers warn. Read the full article. The Register...

Honeypots Threatened By Zombies

Innovations in botnet technology threaten the usefulness of honeypots, one of the main ways to study how bot herders control networks of zombie PCs. Computer scientists led by Cliff Zou and colleagues at the University of Central Florida warn that bot herders can now avoid honeypots – unprotected...

800 Virginia PCs Destroyed By Possible 'Time Bomb'

The City of Norfolk, Virginia is reeling from a massive computer meltdown in which an unidentified family of malicious code destroyed data on nearly 800 computers citywide. Read the full article. KrebsonSecurity...

IT-Grundschutz M5.091: Einsatz von Personal Firewalls für Internet-PCs

IT-Grundschutz M5.091: Einsatz von Personal Firewalls für Internet-PCs. ACHTUNG: Dieser Test wird nicht mehr unterstützt. Er wurde ersetzt durch den entsprechenden Test der nun permanent and die aktuelle EL angepasst wird: OID 1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.95070 Diese Prüfung bezieht sich auf die 11...

IT-Grundschutz M5.091: Einsatz von Personal Firewalls für Internet-PCs

IT-Grundschutz M5.091: Einsatz von Personal Firewalls für Internet-PCs. ACHTUNG: Dieser Test wird nicht mehr unterstützt. Er wurde ersetzt durch den entsprechenden Test der nun permanent and die aktuelle EL angepasst wird: OID 1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.95070 Diese Prüfung bezieht sich auf die 10...

IT-Grundschutz M5.091: Einsatz von Personal Firewalls für Internet-PCs

IT-Grundschutz M5.091: Einsatz von Personal Firewalls für Internet-PCs. ACHTUNG: Dieser Test wird nicht mehr unterstützt. Er wurde ersetzt durch den entsprechenden Test der nun permanent and die aktuelle EL angepasst wird: OID 1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.95070 Diese Prüfung bezieht sich auf die 11...

[SECURITY] Fedora 10 Update: BackupPC-3.1.0-6.fc10

BackupPC is a high-performance, enterprise-grade system for backing up Linux and WinXX PCs and laptops to a server's disk. BackupPC is highly configurab le and easy to install and maintain...

Scareware Locks Apps on Infected PCs

USA Today is reporting on a new variant of scareware that not only inundates users with exhortations to purchase phony antivirus software called “Total Security 2009,” but that also locks users out of nearly all applications until they purchase the disreputable product. Once their PCs are infecte...

Adobe Flash Patch Guidance Working, Kinda

Mozilla’s move to nudge Firefox users into updating the browser’s Flash Player plug-in has been a phenomenal success with about 10 million users clicking through to the Web page with Adobe’s patch. Mozilla released some brief statistics to track the success of its new program, which serves up a...

Linux Botnet Discovered

From The H Security A network of hijacked Linux servers is apparently being used to distribute malicious software to Windows PCs. According to an analysis by web developer Denis Sinegubko, the comprised systems all have one thing in common: the light weight web server nginx is running and serving...

Buy an Infected PC for 5 Cents

From PC World Erik Larkin It doesn’t take much to get started in Internet crime these days. Find the right site, hand over $50, and you can start wreaking havoc with 1,000 already-infected PCs. Finjan, a San Jose, CA security company, looked into the “Golden Cash” site, used by black hats to buy...

绿坝远程缓冲区溢出漏洞

No description provided by source. Green Dam remote buffer overflow exploit "Green Dam" is a software used for monitoring and anti-pornography, popularizing by Chinese goverment. After July 1st, it will be forced to install on all new Chinese PCs. Now it already has 50 million copies in China. In...

Green Dam 3.17 (URL) Remote Buffer Overflow Exploit (xp/sp2)

No description provided by source. Green Dam remote buffer overflow exploit "Green Dam" is a software used for monitoring and anti-pornography, popularizing by Chinese goverment. After July 1st, it will be forced to install on all new Chinese PCs. Now it already has 50 million copies in China. In...

Green Dam 3.17 (Windows XP SP2) - 'URL' Remote Buffer Overflow

Green Dam remote buffer overflow exploit "Green Dam" is a software used for monitoring and anti-pornography, popularizing by Chinese goverment. After July 1st, it will be forced to install on all new Chinese PCs. Now it already has 50 million copies in China. In order to monitor the URL that user...

1 in 5 Windows PCs still hackable by Conficker

From Computerworld Gregg Keizer Although the media blitz about the Conficker worm prompted a significant number of enterprise users to finally fix a six-month-old Windows bug, about one in five business computers still lack the patch computerworld.com, a security company said today. Scans of more...

Countdown to Conficker's April 1st climax

By Byron Acohido, LastWatchdog.com Two schools of thought exist about what the Conficker worm will do come the wee hours of April 1, 2009, GMT. Some experts, like WinPatrol creator Bill Pytlovany, are sensing that the worm’s controllers will run circles lastwatchdog.com around the Microsoft-led...

Southwest Airlines site in Conficker's crosshairs

The resilient Conficker worm has spent the last few months wreaking havoc on millions of infected PCs around the world, and it now looks like the worm is set to potentially cause some trouble for Southwest Airlines as well. Computerworld is reporting that the infected machines will attempt to...

JVN#64227086 NewsGlue and Ikinari Jijyoutsuu arbitrary script execution vulnerability

Impact An arbitrary script could be executed in NewsGlue or Ikinari Jijyoutsuu. Arbitrary files on client PCs could be accessed by an attacker. Solution Products Affected NewsGlue 1.3.3 and earlier Ikinari Jijyoutsuu version 1.0.0 and 1.0.1...