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U.S. District Court denies FTC Request to Ban RemoteSpy

by certifiedbug on December 8, 2008

in Internet Security

Press release.

Orlando, FL (PRWEB) December 4, 2008 — On November 25, 2008, the U.S. District Court denied a proposed ban of the remotely-deployed computer monitoring software product, RemoteSpy, sold by CyberSpy Software, LLC. As of December 3, 2008, RemoteSpy is once again available for sale and users of the popular software can once again access their accounts. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) asked the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida (case no. 6:08-cv-1872-ORL-31GJK) to issue an injunction to: (1) stop the sale of RemoteSpy, the best remote computer monitoring tool on the market; (2) prevent current RemoteSpy customers from using the product; (3) freeze the assets of the company and its CEO, Tracer Spence; and (4) prevent CyberSpy and Spence from operating any other business without the FTC’s consent. The Court refused to take such punitive actions, instead simply requiring CyberSpy to do what it had already offered to do: change its promotional materials and advertising practices to make it clear that the software is not designed or intended to be used to monitor any computer without the owner’s knowledge and consent.

http://www.prweb.com/releases/spy/software/prweb1706254.htm

Certifiedbug, November 19, 2008.
Keylogger vendor CyberSpy under temporary restraining order

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Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 released

by certifiedbug on November 20, 2008

in Software

Release notes
Security Advisory

Five Moderate Two Low.

Fixed in Thunderbird 2.0.0.18
MFSA 2008-59 Script access to .documentURI and .textContent in mail
MFSA 2008-58 Parsing error in E4X default namespace
MFSA 2008-56 nsXMLHttpRequest::NotifyEventListeners() same-origin violation
MFSA 2008-55 Crash and remote code execution in nsFrameManager
MFSA 2008-52 Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.9.0.4/1.8.1.18)
MFSA 2008-50 Crash and remote code execution via __proto__ tampering
MFSA 2008-48 Image stealing via canvas and HTTP redirect

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Keylogger vendor CyberSpy under temporary restraining order

November 19, 2008

Federal Trade Commission
Court Orders Halt to Sale of Spyware
At the request of the Federal Trade Commission, a U.S. District Court has issued a temporary restraining order halting the sale of keylogger spyware. According to the FTC’s complaint, the Florida-based CyberSpy Software, LLC marketed and sold RemoteSpy keylogger spyware to clients who would then secretly monitor [...]

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Windows Live OneCare to be replaced by “Morro”

November 18, 2008

According to the press release “Morro” will have a smaller footprint and be lighter on computing resources than OneCare.
A big difference for users is that it will be a free stand-alone download, no charge to consumers.
Windows Live OneCare will continue to be sold for Windows XP and Windows Vista at retail through June 30, 2009. [...]

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AVG Flags Adobe Flash

November 14, 2008

Less than a week after crippling non-english versions of Windows XP with a flawed update, AVG’s latest update of their suite is flagging Adobe Flash as potentially malicious.
Some might say that’s not too far from the truth but the detection is a false positive. The Register
Certifiedbug, November 11, 2008. AVG update removed critical [...]

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Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 released

November 14, 2008

Security Advisory
Two Critical Five Moderate.
MFSA 2008-46 Heap overflow when canceling newsgroup message
MFSA 2008-44 resource: traversal vulnerabilities
MFSA 2008-43 BOM characters stripped from JavaScript before execution
MFSA 2008-42 Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.9.0.2/1.8.1.17)
MFSA 2008-41 Privilege escalation via XPCnativeWrapper pollution
MFSA 2008-38 nsXMLDocument::OnChannelRedirect() same-origin violation
MFSA 2008-37 UTF-8 URL stack buffer overflow
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AVG update removed critical Windows file

November 11, 2008

An update over the weekend for AVG Technologies virus scanner contained a flawed virus signature, which flagged ‘user32.dll’ as a Trojan Horse.
Choosing ‘heal’ or ‘quarantine’ caused systems to either stop booting or go into a continuous reboot cycle.
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, Nov. 11 /PRNewswire/ — AVG is actively working to remedy the problem some users are experiencing [...]

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Searching for a product, buyer beware

October 23, 2008

Noted by users, ‘official-download.net’ appears to be selling a product that is presented in such a way as to mislead a person searching for the download page for a well known antispyware program.
Domain Tools.
Related Sites: 2008-official.net
Website title: Earth 2009 Secrets

That’s how the banner appeared yesterday, today it looked like this.

At the bottom of [...]

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Adobe Flash Player update 10.0.12.36

October 15, 2008

Adobe Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT)
Flash Player 10 addresses Flash Player-specific aspects of the overall clickjacking issue that has been making news recently, and also includes a mitigation for recent clipboard attacks as well as other security enhancements.
Adobe will be providing an update to Flash Player 9 for customers who cannot upgrade to Flash [...]

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Adobe issues workaround for “Clickjacking” issue

October 7, 2008

Vulnerability identifier: APSA08-08.
Customers:
To prevent this potential issue, customers can change their Flash Player settings as follows:
1. Access the Global Privacy Settings panel of the Adobe Flash Player Settings Manager at the following URL: http://www.adobe.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager02.html
2. Select the “Always deny” button.
3. Select ‘Confirm’ in the resulting dialog.
4. Note that you will no longer be asked to allow [...]

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