Friday, February 20, 2009

Around The Horn vol.1,45

Alerts

2:45 AM (3 hours ago)

New BackDoor Attacks Using PDF Documents

from McAfee Avert Labs by Geok Meng Ong

Needless to further remind everyone, zero-day attacks are the preferred choice of cyber criminals and will continue to be so in 2009. If the recent W32/Conficker.worm (MS08-087) and Exploit-XMLhttp.d (MS08-078, MS09-002) were not good enough to prove our point, here is another one.

4:46 AM (1 hour ago)

Conficker worm gets an evil twin

from Network World on Security by Robert McMillan

The criminals behind the widespread Conficker worm have released a new version of the malware that could signal a major shift in the way the worm operates.

Security News

2:31 AM (4 hours ago)

How the Feds shook hands with an internet pedophile

from The Register - Security

Crime and punishment in the digital age

As former moderators for an internet relay channel dedicated to hacking, Francine Campbell and Sterlin Ward have seen some of the net's darker quarters. But nothing prepared them for their group's encounter with an internet pedophile who called himself Digerati.…

 

9:31 PM (9 hours ago)

New in-the-wild attack targets fully-patched Adobe Reader

from The Register - Security

Locked and loaded

Security watchers are warning of a serious unpatched vulnerability in Adobe's Reader program that's actively being exploited to install malware on the PCs of unsuspecting users.…

12:34 AM (6 hours ago)

Phishing with a small twist, (Fri, Feb 20th)

from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green

A reader sent this through to us (thanks) and it has an interesting little twist. The message ...(more)...

12:34 AM (6 hours ago)

MS09-002, XML/DOC and initial infection vector, (Thu, Feb 19th)

from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green

The MS09-002 exploit that we posted a diary about two days ago (http://isc.sans ...(more)...

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