Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Around The Horn vol.1,60

Alert

11:29 AM (9 hours ago)

Cisco Unified Communications Manager IP Phone Personal Address Book Synchronizer Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

9:31 AM (12 hours ago)

Adobe Update is finally out, well, some of them, (Wed, Mar 11th)

from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green

Thank you all that wrote in letting us know that the Adobe Update for Reader and Acrobat 9 is finall ...(more)...

Mar 10, 2009 (yesterday)

Massive ARP spoofing attacks on web sites, (Wed, Mar 11th)

from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green

Recently Ive been involved in two incidents which had exactly the same modus operandi. The at ...(more)...

 Security News

3:20 PM (6 hours ago)

Kremlin-backed youths launched Estonian cyberwar, says Russian official

from The Register - Security

Mea Culpa without the culpa

Members of a Kremlin-backed youth group spearheaded the cyberattacks that paralyzed Estonia's internet traffic in May of 2007, a Russian government official has admitted.…

11:20 AM (10 hours ago)

BT rebuts database security breach claims

from The Register - Security

The very idea

BT has dismissed the significance of supposed vulnerabilities on its systems detailed by infamous hacker Unu on Tuesday.…

9:50 AM (11 hours ago)

Chinese crackers create counterfeit iTunes racket

from The Register - Security

Talkin' 'bout key generation

Chinese crackers have reportedly cracked the iTunes gift card system.…

7:19 AM (14 hours ago)

Critical kernel fix stars in Patch Tuesday updates

from The Register - Security

Excel 0-day threat remains unpatched

Microsoft released the promised three patches on Tuesday, including one critical, as part of its regular Patch Tuesday update cycle.…

Mar 10, 2009 (yesterday)

Online attackers feed off Norton forum purge

from The Register - Security

Silence isn't golden

Quick-moving attackers took advantage of a glitch in an update for Symantec anti-virus software, using an information vacuum that followed as an opportunity to lure panic-stricken users to websites that tried to install malware on their computers.…

9:20 PM (seconds ago)

No investigation after malware is found on parliamentary PC

from The Register - Security

Hill to climb for new e-crime unit

Police did not investigate when Alun Michael MP reported a PC in his office was attacked with malware, the former minister has revealed.…

9:20 PM (seconds ago)

Eset false alarm puts system files on remand

from The Register - Security

Kryptik cock-up

Slovakian anti-virus firm Eset has confirmed that a misfiring virus definition update wrongly labelled Windows system files as infected with malware.…

8:30 AM (12 hours ago)

Security Zoning for Virtualized Environments

from WindowSecurity.com by tshinder@tacteam.net (Thomas Shinder)

An important consideration when assessing the security of a virtualized environment: network security zoning.

12:42 PM (8 hours ago)

Antiphishing group develops e-crime reporting tool

from Network World on Security by Jeremy Kirk

A group dedicated to fighting phishing scams has developed a way for police and other organizations to report e-crimes in a common data format readable by a Web browser or other application.

4:41 AM (16 hours ago)

Adobe fixes security vulnerability with Acrobat 9, Reader 9

from Network World on Security by Jonathan Seff

Adobe on Tuesday fixed a critical security vulnerability in its Acrobat 9 and Reader 9 applications, which the company said "would cause the application to crash and could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system."

4:00 PM (5 hours ago)

News: Experts: U.S. needs to defend its "cyber turf"

from SecurityFocus News

Experts: U.S. needs to defend its "cyber turf"

Mar 10, 2009 (yesterday)

Brief: Microsoft patches image, DNS flaws

from SecurityFocus News

Microsoft patches image, DNS flaws

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