SCADA Vendors Still Need Security Wake Up Call

Companies that make supervisory control and data acquisition SCADA and industrial control software are still dangerously lax when it comes to application security and vulnerable to attack, according to a researcher from security firm Tenable Inc. who warned that the use of coded administrative...

The Inside Story of SQL Slammer

On Jan. 25, 2003, a new worm took the Internet by storm, infecting thousands of servers running Microsoft’s SQL Server software every minute. The worm, which became known as SQL Slammer, eventually became the fastest-spreading worm ever and helped change the way Microsoft approached security and...

CVE-2010-3889

Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Windows on 32-bit platforms allows local users to gain privileges via unknown vectors, as exploited in the wild in July 2010 by the Stuxnet worm, and identified by Microsoft researchers and other researchers...

Code injection

Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Windows on 32-bit platforms allows local users to gain privileges via unknown vectors, as exploited in the wild in July 2010 by the Stuxnet worm, and identified by Microsoft researchers and other researchers...

Code injection

Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Windows on 32-bit platforms allows local users to gain privileges via unknown vectors, as exploited in the wild in July 2010 by the Stuxnet worm, and identified by Kaspersky Lab researchers and other researchers...

CVE-2010-3888

Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Windows on 32-bit platforms allows local users to gain privileges via unknown vectors, as exploited in the wild in July 2010 by the Stuxnet worm, and identified by Kaspersky Lab researchers and other researchers...

VulnCheck KEV: CVE-2010-3889

Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Windows on 32-bit platforms allows local users to gain privileges via unknown vectors, as exploited in the wild in July 2010 by the Stuxnet worm, and identified by Microsoft researchers and other researchers...

VulnCheck KEV: CVE-2010-3888

Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Windows on 32-bit platforms allows local users to gain privileges via unknown vectors, as exploited in the wild in July 2010 by the Stuxnet worm, and identified by Kaspersky Lab researchers and other researchers...

Microsoft Plans Record-Breaking Patch Tuesday

This month’s batch of security patches from Microsoft will be a record-breaking one: 16 bulletins addressing a whopping 49 security vulnerabilities. According to the company’s advance notice, four of the 16 bulletins will be rated “critical,” Microsoft’s highest severity rating. Microsoft rates a...

Facebook's Future: More Koobfaces

VANCOUVER – Working as Facebook’s resident malware researcher is a lonely job, for now. But Nick Bilogorskiy doesn’t expect it to stay that way. In fact, Facebook’s biggest security challenge will be building up its capabilities to identify and tamp down malware infections like the 2009 Koobface...

Stuxnet Media Storm Now Feeding SEO Attacks?

How do you know when a computer virus has officially jumped the fence to become a media sensation? Probably when scammers start using popular interest in it as bait for their own malware. So it is with the Stuxnet worm, which was identified in July, but has become the focus of intense media...

WTF? Twitter Hit By Another Worm

Another week, another fast-moving Twitter attack. Just days after engineers stamped out a nasty cross site scripting hole in the company’s Web page, the company had to contend with a worm that used an attack called “cross site request forgery” to post salacious messages and malicious links on...

Persistent XSS Bug on Twitter Exploited by Worm

UPDATE— Within an hour of reports surfacing about a cross-site scripting bug on the Twitter home page, a worm exploiting the bug was released on the site. However, engineers at Twitter have repaired the bug and say that it no longer should be exploitable. The bug appeared Tuesday morning and...

Stuxnet Detection

The remote Host seems to be infected by the Stuxnet worm. The Scanner found files on the remote host that indicate that this host is infected by the Stuxnet worm. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbstuxnetdetect.nasl 7332 2017-09-29 14:16:56Z cfischer $ Stuxnet Detection Authors: Michael Meyer...

Stuxnet Detection

The remote Host seems to be infected by the Stuxnet worm. The Scanner found files on the remote host that indicate that this host is infected by the Stuxnet worm. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2010 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by...

Stuxnet Worm Detection

The remote Windows host has files present on the system that indicate the Stuxnet worm has infected the system. This worm attempts to spread in several ways, making use of known Windows vulnerabilities and removable media. It has been seen making use of several 0-day vulnerabilities as well as...

Siemens Finds Stuxnet Worm in 14 Plants

A sophisticated worm designed to steal industrial secrets and disrupt operations has infected at least 14 plants, according to Siemens. Read the full article. IDG News Service...

Microsoft plugs Eleven Vulnerabilities with Patch Tuesday Update

Microsoft issued nine security bulletins on Tuesday, fixing eleven vulnerabilities in products ranging from Windows, to Microsoft Office, to Internet Information Services. The patch release, part of the company’s monthly Patch Tuesday release included a fix for a previously undisclosed...

Here You Have Email Worm Detection

The remote Windows host has files present on the system that indicate that the 'Here You Have' email worm is present. A user of this host likely received an email containing a malicious '.scr' screen saver file and infected the host as a result of running this file. This malware has several...

New Email Worm Turns Back the Clock on Virus Attacks

There appears to be an actual email worm in circulation right now, using the tried-and-true infection method of sending malicious emails to all of the names in a user’s email address book. As of Friday afternoon, the malicious files had been deleted from the remote server in the UK that was servi...