Hello, it is now April 1st for at least Asia Pacific and Europe. We’ve been blogging and posting various resources about ways to protect against the Conficker worm up to its “activation day”:  ”More Comments Regarding Conficker“  ”W32/Conficker: Much Ado About Nothing?“. The day has finally arrived. McAfee Avert Labs has been closely monitoring Conficker-related threats and, Read more…
In recent economic times, you can’t go anywhere without seeing or hearing the words “recession,” “mortgage crisis,” “unemployment rates increase,” and “layoffs.” I feel that spammers and hackers have been reaping the rewards in these tough economic times by preying on upset and depressed consumers. I have seen exponential increases on the number of tactics Read more…
Back in 2001 I was sitting at my desk (or card table as it were) getting Foundstone off the ground as a fledgling startup. At the time we were trying to make sense of 9/11 and what it meant for our country as well as our business. As we pondered the future, we were brought Read more…
Tags: Conficker, Foundstone, kurtz
We often see messages from malware authors in the malware that we analyze. And, strangely, unlike the theme of The Police’s hit song “Message in a Bottle,” these are never expressions of love. On the contrary, they’re usually offensive. Backdoor-DOQÂ is a backdoor Trojan. A variant that we analyzed last week would, among other things, establish Read more…
Everyday there are thousands of websites that have been injected with malicious code and there are millions of hosts that have been infected by malware from these malevolent URLs. The main vulnerabilities lately are Windows-based as well as third-party application issues. This blog will introduce the most common vulnerabilities used by malevolent URLs in China Read more…
I remember when I first began delving into the definition of IT Risk – it was about seven years ago. I thought it was important to be very specific when explaining what risk was because it can be such a nebulous term. Plus the very mention of risk too often conjured up images of actuarial Read more…
Recently I’ve been playing around with Facebook and realized how much fun it can be to play their games. Most of my friends are in to the game called Mafia Wars. Mafia Wars is a game where you basically start a Mafia by robbing, fighting and killing…. you know, the perfect online game for all Read more…
There is really no scarcity of spurious security programs. Almost daily, we see programs that pretend to be security programs but in reality are malicious. They display messages about system compromise and attempt to frighten users into purchasing some other malicious program to prevent the compromise. Or worse. While displaying fake messages about system compromise Read more…
A friend of mine recently sent me an email. It was my friend John Lewis who I hadn’t talked to in many years. He has always been an absolute music junky! I mean the boy knows more about music than anyone I know – and all music, not just rock. He is a veritable font Read more…
Tags: Cyber Security Mom, Family Safety, mom
Don’t you like when legit obfuscated javascript is mixed with the malicious one? Also, don’t you like when the malicious one is linked with several redirection, referrals, exploits and other malwares? So, here is the story… Once upon a time a user was checking for a service on google and found one that fits the Read more…
Tags: bueno, pedro bueno