My friends, Larry and Paul at securitycentral.us, have changed the name of their security site and moved to a new domain.
They are now Nutnworks.com Please update your bookmarks and pay them a visit!
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From the monthly archives:
November 2007
For those in the UK.
The 12th to the 16th November is Get Safe Online Week 2007 and the Get Safe Online campaign will be travelling around the country offering independent, expert advice on how you can stay safe and secure when using the internet.
- Tuesday 13th November - Bristol & Edinburgh
- Wednesday 14th November - Cardiff & Newcastle
- Thursday 15th November - Birmingham & Manchester
More information at Get Safe Online Roadshow
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Scheduled November bulletin release day, Tuesday November 13, 2007.
The Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC)
- Two Microsoft Security Bulletins affecting Microsoft Windows with a Maximum Severity rating of Critical. These updates will require a restart and will be detectable using the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and the Enterprise Scan Tool.
As we do each month, the Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool will be updated.
Finally, we are planning to release three high-priority, non-security updates on Microsoft Update. However, we are not planning any high-priority, non-security updates on Windows Update.
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Chris Boyd (aka paperghost) of Facetime, blogged about band hacks on MySpace nine days ago, and has posted several updates.
PC World, October 31, 2007 Hackers Sneak Tricks Into MySpace Band Pages
Yet this is today’s news, “Alicia Keys hit by MySpace Trojan hack” at The Register
The attack was discovered by Roger Thompson of Exploit Prevention Labs, who’s posted an explanation of the attack along with a video here.
Erm, credit where credit is due?
Paperghost’s reaction at Vitalsecurity: Spot the Difference
Edit: VitalSecurity Myspace Band hacks - STILL active!
Update: whoops - sorry Chris
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Today the Windows Live team announces the final release of the Windows Live suite of applications and web services designed to enhance the Windows user experience. Consumers can now download the full Windows Live suite at once or pick and choose their favorite apps and services.
Why Windows Live on this blog? Simply put, the two product platforms are now linked more than ever before.
Q&A: Chris Jones, corporate vice president, Windows Live Experience Program Management, discusses how Windows Live will help consumers more easily and safely communicate and share online.
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Possible Faults:
US-CERT is aware of reports of possible flaws in the Application-Based Firewall in Mac OS X Leopard. According to these reports, users may be misinformed of the status of their firewall rule set, thus placing users with listening network services at an increased risk.
Users are urged to exercise caution when relying on the firewall rules for access control.
US-CERT will provide additional information as it becomes available.
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I have been following a thread about iedefender at CastleCops.
The topic started with:
Attached below is a copy of IEdefender (hxxp://www.iedefender.com/) a new rogue software.
The vendor responded:
iedefender: Hello, we’re developers of IEDefender, our software is clean and is real antispyware. As we can see, people from your site send our exe to different antivirus and antispyware companies, trying to black PR our company. They’ve got answers, that our soft is clean, because IT IS CLEAN! We contacted Kaspersky, they also confirmed, there are no problems with our software, you can check our .exe with any popular antiviruses, there no problems! Stop sending your detractive mails and messages, in other case we would be forced to send all information to our lawyers and meet your representative in the court, where it would be very hard for you to prove, that our software is not real, because IT’S REAL ANTISPYWARE!
Fifth page.
nosirrah@iedefender:
Since you want to respond lets make this as cut and dry as possible . Here is a list of issues you need to address . Answer each question directly with no obscenities and no name calling .1. When will the fake codec site on your server stop advertising your software ?
2. Why does your home page contain text directly copied from other well known rogues ?
3. Why did you choose hosting that is well known for hosting hundreds of other rogue applications ?
4. When will you take the plagiarized content from NOD32 off of your home page ?
5. When will you give credit to the sources of the plagiarized content in your forum ?
Update your security programs, and be careful out there.
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Using administrator account: Open Firefox > Help > Check for Updates.
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