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UK PCs Have Least Malware 2007-09-29 09:24:00 from PCWorld 29/9/2007Website: http://www.pcworld.comAn online malware measuring tool has unexpectedly rated U.K. PCs as having the lowest level of infection in Europe.The Nanoscan tool, which can be downloaded as a plug-in from the site of owner Panda Software, put the U.K. in bottom spot last week, with only 8.1 percent of those scanned showing active malware. By a separate measure, that of 'latent' or inactive malware, however, the U.K. fared less well, reaching 20.7 percent.Top of the infection list for active malware was France (28.2 percent), Mexico (23.1 percent), Brazil (18 percent), the U.S. (17.8 percent), and Argentina (17.4 percent).The figures appear to show very high levels of infection, but the results only rate those who visited the site and asked to be scanned. These individuals would be expected to show a bias towards having infected PCs. The company has created its own global malware map from the data, which is collected from thousands of mostly consumer PCs every Read more:Malware
McAfee: Most Consumers Overestimate PC Safety 2007-09-29 00:50:00 from PCWorld 28/9/2007Website: http://www.pcworld.comIt's self-serving, but a new study by McAfee
Inc. and the National Cyber Security Alliance has found that 78 percent of consumer PCs in the U.S. are not protected (defined as having up-to-date AV, spyware and a properly configured firewall).What's interesting, though is how many people think they are protected: 93 percent according the survey, which is set to be released Monday."There's... a troubling perception among the vast majority of consumers that they're well protected. And they're not. " McAfee says. Translation: buy more of our products. :-)Maybe on Monday we'll learn then what percentage of the people who are not protected *think* they're safe.By the way, the percentage of protected computers hasn't improved much over the past two years. In 2005, the study found that 81 percent of PCs were not protected.These are big numbers and the fact that not a lot more people are becoming protected seems to show that consumers Read more:Safety
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Microsoft offers Internet Explorer 7 to pirates 2007-10-08 21:38:00 ComputerWorld UK 9/10/2007Website: http://www.computerworlduk.comUsers running pirated or counterfeit copies of Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 can now download InternetExplorer
7, Microsoft
has announced. From the moment it released the program almost a year ago, Microsoft has restricted the browser to users who can prove they own a legitimate copy of the operating system. Before Microsoft allows the browser to download, it runs the user's PC through a Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) validation test, a prime part of XP's antipiracy software. When it instituted the requirement in 2006, Microsoft said rights to IE7 were one of the rewards for being legal. But it has now changed its mind, saying the move is in users' best interest. "Because Microsoft takes its commitment to help protect the entire Windows ecosystem seriously, we're updating the IE7 installation experience to make it available as broadly as possible to all Windows users," said Steve Reynolds, an IE program mana Read more:Internet Explorer
Spam and the Housing Bust 2007-10-08 21:35:00 PCMagazine 9/10/2007Website: http://www.pcmag.comIf nothing else, spammers are good at following the news.Symantec's October State of Spam report found spammers were using homeowners' concerns about the real estate market as part of recent spam campaigns. The idea, researchers said, was to steal victims' personal information by tricking them into believing they were being evaluated for an equity loan, refinancing or a house.Such efforts were part of the reason spam rose to account for 70 percent of all e-mail traffic in September, according to experts at Symantec, based in Cupertino, Calif. Though that amount represents an increase of about only 1 percent from August, the spam landscape continues to undergo noticeable change.For example, image spam, once a regular visitor to e-mail inboxes around the world, has continued to fall out of favor with spammers, dropping from 10 percent of all spam in August to 7 percent in September, according to the report.What would it take to stop spa Read more:Housing
Security researchers look beyond Vista 2007-10-03 22:48:00 from ComputerWorld UK 4/10/2007Website: http://www.computerworlduk.comThe improved security in Microsoft's newest software products may leave some security researchers
looking elsewhere for work.That was the message that some security professionals took away from BlueHat, an event last week on Microsoft's campus that allows security researchers to mingle with Microsoft developers."One of the messages we got was to look in the future for [our products] to not be so successful," said Pedram Amini, manager of security research at 3Com Corp.'s Tipping Point division. That's because Microsoft is applying a lot of the technologies used by security researchers in house, making the third-party techniques not as effective, he said.For example, he said that Microsoft Office has been susceptible to fault by fuzzing, an automated technique for finding software faults when access to the code isn't available. But Microsoft has recently put more effort into using fuzzing itself, so now third-par Read more:Vista
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Malicious code infects Chinese security site 2007-10-03 22:40:00 from InfoWorld 3/10/2007Website: http://www.infoworld.comSan Francisco (IDGNS) - The Web site of one of China's Internet security
organizations has been laced with malicious code.At least three pages on the Chinese
Internet Security Response Team's (CISRT) Web site are rigged with a malicious "iframe," a hidden window on a Web page that can allow code such as JavaScript to run on a visitor's PC, according to Trend Micro's malware blog.CISRT said the attack takes advantage of vulnerabilities associated with an ActiveX control in the BaoFeng Storm multimedia player. The iframe loads scripts that download more malicious code to a victim's machine, Trend Micro said. One of the downloaders is named "sms.exe."CISRT apologized for the problems on its blog. "We are very sorry that when sometimes visiting our ... pages, malicious codes are inserted," it said.How the code appears on CISRT's Web site was unclear. CISRT said it may be an Address Resolution Protocol attack, where data sent fr Read more:Malicious
Malware is Getting Sneakier 2007-10-03 22:12:00 from PCWorld 3/10/2007Website: http://www.pcworld.comIt's getting harder and harder to know who to trust on the World Wide Web, according to online safety advocates StopBadware.org.On Tuesday, the group released its 2007 Trends in Badware report, saying the bad guys are finding new ways to place their malicious software on our computers-- often by compromising Web sites that we trust.With the help of one of its sponsor companies, Google Inc., StopBadware maintains a list of 200,000 Web sites that are known to be associated with malicious downloads. According to Max Weinstein, a project manager with StopBadware, more than half of these sites have been hacked and don't even realize it.In fact, this move to delivering malicious software on legitimate sites has been a disturbing trend over the past year, he said."It used to be that the advice to the end-user was 'keep your software up to date and then don't go to bad Web sites,'" he said. "You still don't want to go to those sites, b Read more:Malware
Avira warns against spam emails with MP3 files 2007-10-20 07:31:00 AVIRAWebsite: http://www.avira.comTettnang, 19 October 2007 – Computer users are confronted with a new spam method: they become the unwilling recipients of emails with attached audio files
. Whoever opens them - they can be played with any Windows Media Player - hears advertising messages in English. The mails do not contain a subject or a text. The MP3 files have many different names that appear to refer, for example, to a well-known pop star or important information. The problem with this spam method is that users do not yet know about it and therefore react without suspicion. Spam filters are generally ineffective, but above all the size of the mass MP3 mails places a heavy strain on mailboxes, especially those of businesses. So called “stock spam” has already spread in other file formats, for instance, in the form of image files (PDF).
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AVG Anti-Virus Free is the Most Popular Program on CNET Download.com 2007-10-20 07:28:00 AVG Anti-Virus and Internet Security 19/10/2007Website: http://www.grisoft.comAVG Anti-Virus Free and Anti-Virus Pro ranked as number one and number three antivirus programs on download.comOrlando, F.L. - October 17, 2007 – GRISOFT, the developer of AVG Internet security software, today announced that AVG Anti-Virus Free is the number one downloaded program on all of CNET Download
.com. Additionally, AVG Anti-Virus Free is the first most popular and Anti-Virus Pro is the third most popular antivirus based on Editor’s Choice. CNET Download.com is a well-referenced site and is part of CNET Networks, an internationally established online publication and host to technology news and reviews.AVG security products, for the home and office, are popular among CNET.com reviewers and users alike. AVG Anti-Virus Free holds an editor rating of five out of five, in addition to a user rating of four stars out of five. CNET.com reports that the latest version of AVG Anti-Virus Free, for private, no Read more:Program
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Exorcize PC Demons for Free on Halloween 2007-10-20 07:03:00 PC Magazine 19/10/2007Website: http://www.pcmag.comTwo vendors want to know: "Is your computer possessed? Does it seem like your hard drive's haunted?"If so, they're offering a day of free technical support to cleanse PCs from evil and help users rid themselves of zombies, botnets, viruses and other malware on Halloween
.CyberDefender, an Internet security company that uses a client-to-client distributed network to scare off spyware, viruses, phishing and dangerous spam, and tech support provider Quatrro will be offering remote scans and remote repairs to any home or office user who calls (877) 377-3765 on Oct. 31.Storm botnet kits loom. Click here to read more.According to a release, the free goodies will include anything from repairing malware damage, speeding up system performance or even making sure that competitors' security solutions are working.Generally, CyberDefender says, tech support calls cost between $50 to $100. The giveaway is to promote a new offering, Premium Tech Su Read more:Demons
Attackers produce new RealPlayer threat 2007-10-20 06:55:00 ComputerWorld UK 19/10/2007Website: http://www.computerworlduk.comSymantec is warning RealPlayer
users to be particularly vigilant at the moment. The compnay's Security Response team uncovered new attack code that affects the RealPlayer 11 beta and RealPlayer 10.5 software on the Windows platform, according to Ben Greenbaum, a senior manager with the group. Symantec has already confirmed that the attack code works on Windows XP Service Pack 1 running Internet Explorer 6. Tests for the more-recent XP service pack 2 and IE 7 browser were ongoing. For the attack to work, the criminal would have to trick the victim into playing a maliciously encoded web page. The flaw lies in a browser helper object, software that RealPlayer uses to help users who are experiencing technical difficulties. Once the exploit is run on the victim's machine, the attacker can download and install whatever software he wants, Greenbaum said. So far, Symantec has just seen the one sample of the attack code, Read more:produce
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Comcast blocks some Internet traffic 2007-10-20 06:49:00 Associated Press 19/10/2007Website: http://www.ap.orgNEW YORK - Comcast
Corp. actively interferes with attempts by some of its high-speed Internet
subscribers to share files online, a move that runs counter to the tradition of treating all types of Net traffic
equally.The interference, which The Associated Press confirmed through nationwide tests, is the most drastic example yet of data discrimination by a U.S. Internet service provider. It involves company computers masquerading as those of its users.If widely applied by other ISPs, the technology Comcast is using would be a crippling blow to the BitTorrent, eDonkey and Gnutella file-sharing networks. While these are mainly known as sources of copyright music, software and movies, BitTorrent in particular is emerging as a legitimate tool for quickly disseminating legal content.The principle of equal treatment of traffic, called "Net Neutrality" by proponents, is not enshrined in law but supported by some regulations. Most of the debat
PDF files used to attack computers: security firm 2007-10-27 07:01:00 Reuters 27/10/2007Website: http://www.reuters.comHELSINKI (Reuters) - Emails containing malicious PDF files
have been putting computers
at risk since Friday, Finnish security
software firm F-Secure said on Saturday."The emails sent in bulk looked like credit card statements, and contained an attachment called 'report.pdf'," its chief research officer Mikko Hypponen said in a statement.When such PDF files are viewed on vulnerable machines, they start downloading software from servers in Malaysia or Sweden, which are now being cleaned, he said. "There will be more such attack
s.""We are worried about this case, as PDF attachments are typically not filtered at email gateways."A security update for Acrobat Reader, which opens PDF files, was made available a few days ago, but many users have not updated the program yet, Hypponen said.
Adobe Patches Critical PDF Vulnerability 2007-10-25 00:07:00 News Factor Network 24/10/2007Website: http://www.newsfactor.comAdobe
patched its Acrobat and Reader programs on Monday. The fix plugs a hole that exposed Windows XP users to attackers sending PDF files containing malware. According to various reports, exploits are running rampant around the Internet in search of unpatched applications."Critical vulnerabilities have been identified in Adobe Reader and Acrobat that could allow an attacker who successfully exploits these vulnerabilities to take control of the affected system," Adobe said in a security bulletin. "A malicious file must be loaded in Adobe Reader or Acrobat by the end user for an attacker to exploit these vulnerabilities."Windows XP users who also run Internet Explorer 7 are at risk. Adobe first admitted to the bug about two weeks ago and posted a complex workaround that required users to edit the Windows registry. The flaw was first discovered on September 20 by "pdp" on the Gnucitizen Web site.Anatomy of the AttackAttacke
Evil PDF Exploiting Windows-IE Flaw in the Wild 2007-10-24 03:20:00 eWeek 23/10/2007Website: http://www.eweek.comA malicious PDF is exploiting a URL-handling flaw in Windows
XP and Windows Server 2003 running IE7. A PDF Trojan horse is spreading malware by exploiting a URL-handling vulnerability in Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 running Internet Explorer 7, Symantec warned customers of its DeepSight Alert Services on Oct. 23.On Oct. 10, Microsoft released Security Advisory 943521 about this vulnerability and public reports of remote code execution. At the time, it said a patch was in the works.The vulnerability is caused by insufficient validation of URLs. Attackers can leverage the flaw to execute arbitrary commands via maliciously crated URLs.Symantec noted in its advisory that the issue was originally disclosed in July but initially received scant attention. In light of new research, public exploits and Microsoft's advisory, Symantec considers the problem to be more severe."With the ease of exploitation, the availability of public proof-of-co
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Spammers turn to MP3s to deliver pitches 2007-10-24 03:01:00 Associated Press 22/10/2007Website: http://www.ap.orgSAN JOSE, Calif. - Spam is now being served in audio form.The latest in unwanted electronic communication is an MP3 file that began landing in inboxes around the world last week. It features a spooky, synthesized Darth-Vader-sounding female voice touting the stock of Exit Only Inc., traded on the lower-standard Pink Sheets."Hello, this is an investor alert!" the halting, at times unintelligible voice says. Her pitch invokes the growth prospects of Exit Only, a Web site operator that runs Text4Cars.com, which links auto buyers and sellers via text messages.Computer security researchers say the audio blasts — MP3 files with misleading names attached to spam e-mails — reflect spammers' need to slip their messages through increasingly sophisticated e-mail filters.The MP3s masquerade as cell phone ringtones or carry names like "bartsimpson.mp3" and "justintimberlake.mp3," said Keith Crosley, director of market development for Proofpo
FTC: More spyware-fighting tools needed 2007-10-29 21:40:00 InfoWorld 29/10/2007Website: http://www.infoworld.com San Francisco (IDGNS) - Organizations and law enforcement agencies fighting spyware are making progress, but new tools in an antispyware bill stalled in the U.S. Congress could improve the efforts, a member of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said Monday. One of the spyware bills passed by the House of Representatives earlier this year, the Spy Act, would give the FTC authority to impose civil fines on companies that distribute spyware to consumers' computers. The bill, along with the Internet Spyware Prevention (or I-SPY) Act, have stalled in the Senate since passing the House in May and June. The FTC has the authority to collect profits from spyware operations and collect money for consumer redress, but it lacks the authority to impose other fines, as it does when going after spammers, said Commissioner Jon Leibowitz, speaking at a spyware forum in Washington, D.C. Assigning a dollar figure to consumer harm is tricky in many s
Attack code out for critical Kodak bug in Windows 2007-10-29 21:34:00 InfoWorld 27/10/2007Website: http://www.infoworld.com San Francisco (IDGNS) - A hacker has released attack code that could be used to exploit a critical
bug in some versions of the Windows
operating system. Microsoft patched the flaw, which affects older versions of Windows, on Oct. 9. When the Image Viewer tries to open a maliciously encoded TIFF file, it can be tricked into running unauthorized software on the PC. A sample of the exploit was posted Monday to the Milw0rm Web site. The code has not yet been used in online attacks, according to Symantec, which issued an alert Monday. Symantec recommends that Windows users install the MS07-055 update as quickly as possible. Microsoft took the unusual step of issuing its own security update for Kodak
's software, because the image viewer (formerly known as the Wang Image Viewer) had shipped in Windows 2000 systems by default. Still, many Windows users are not affected by the problem. Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 users should not
Mac Users Targeted with Nasty Malware 2007-11-02 03:51:00 News Factor Network 1/11/2007Website: http://www.newsfactor.com So much for Mac users avoiding bugs, worms, and other security nuisances. A Trojan targeting Macs is on the loose, and it's hanging out on porn sites, according to security researchers.The incident was first reported by Intego, a Mac security software vendor. Sunbelt Software, the SANS Institute's Internet Storm Center (ISC), Sophos, and McAfee have confirmed the Trojan. Dubbed "OSX.RSPlug.a," the Trojan changes the Mac's Domain Name System (DNS) settings to redirect unsuspecting users to different sites. "The whole Trojan is relatively simple and works almost exactly the same as its brother for Windows," said ISC analyst Bojan Zdrnja in a warning the center posted on Thursday. "The bad guys are taking Mac seriously now. This is a professional attempt at attacking Mac systems, and they could have been much more damaging." Porn Opens the Door The family of malware that is targeting Macs is called "Puper." It's b Read more:Malware
Fortress Mac Is Gone 2007-11-02 03:44:00 eWeek 1/11/2007Website: http://www.eweek.com Several pornography sites are loading a Trojan disguised as a video codec required to view content on Macs—the first Mac-targeted malware exploit to be spotted in the wild and validation of security researchers' long-maintained prediction that, sooner or later, the rationale for Mac security smugness would rub off."[Users infected by visiting questionable Web sites] began using Macs as most malware target the Windows operating system. Well, soon enough, it may not matter which OS you are using," said Symantec's Joji Hamada in a Nov. 1 posting. Sunbelt Software and Intego, a maker of Mac security software, are warning that a mother lode of spam has been posted to many Mac forums in an attempt to trick users into visiting sites with rigged porn photos. The photos are from reputed porn videos. If Mac users click on the stills to view the videos, they're taken to a site that informs them that the QuickTime Player is unable to play the mo Read more:Fortress
Researchers dig for hidden links in spam 2007-11-02 03:40:00 InfoWorld 1/11/2007Website: http://www.infoworld.comSan Francisco (IDGNS) - Filtering spam messages is a thankless job for software. For every 100 spam e-mails, one message usually gets through, an irritating pitch with links
to Web sites selling questionable drugs or sketchy Rolexes. The links contained within spam are one indicator in determining whether it should be blocked. Often after a large spam run, the addresses of spammy Web sites will be added to blocklists that are used by antispam software to cull future messages with those links. To get around it, spammers construct e-mails with links that can't be identified by filters but still are valid in the messages, said Christopher Fuhrman, a professor of software engineering in the Department of Software and IT Engineering at the University of Quebec. Spammers do this by "munging" the HTML -- adding backslashes, taking out tags -- so that the message and its links are still readable by the rendering engines of browsers or e-
Storm Worm Sent 15 Million Pump-And-Dump E-Mails Last Month 2007-11-02 03:37:00 PCWorld 30/10/2007Website: http://www.pcworld.com The Storm
Worm botnet network may be shrinking in size, but it has managed to send out 15 million annoying audio spam messages in October, according to antispam vendor, MessageLabs. It's hard to believe that the Storm messages were effective. Recipients had to first click on an attachment-- usually given a misleading name like beatles.mp3 or Britney.mp3-- to hear the stock pitch, which featured a warbly robotic woman advising people to invest in online car seller, Exit Only. This kind of scam, called "pump-and-dump", tries to nudge up the price of penny stocks by a cent or two, giving the spammers a way to make a quick buck by selling the stock before it crashes. Spammers have been delivering their messages in different formats, including.pdf and Excel files, over the past few years as part of a cat-and-mouse game with spam blockers. This la Read more:Month
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Apple Patches QuickTime Holes, Microsoft Warns Of Macrovision Driver Flaw 2007-11-07 05:52:00 InformationWeek 6/11/2007Website: http://www.informationweek.com Apple
on Monday released QuickTime
7.3 for Mac OS X and Windows XP SP2 to patch seven vulnerabilities in its multimedia software.All seven of the vulnerabilities have the potential to allow arbitrary code execution by an attacker if the user visited a site with certain maliciously crafted movie or image files, or a maliciously crafted Java applet. Apple updated QuickTime to version 7.2 in July, when it fixed eight security problems with the software. Microsoft
meanwhile warned Monday that a flaw it the Macrovision
secdrv.sys driver in Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP is actively being exploited. An attacker making use of the vulnerability potentially could gain elevated privileges to the affected system. "This vulnerability does not affect Windows Vista," Microsoft said. "We are aware of limited attacks that try to use the reported vulnerability. Microsoft is actively monitoring this situ Read more:Holes
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Microsoft to patch software driver vulnerability 2007-11-07 05:50:00 InfoWorld 6/11/2007Website: http://www.infoworld.com San Francisco (IDGNS) - Microsoft
has warned that a faulty driver used for copy protection could allow a hacker to gain high-level access to a PC.The problem lies with a driver called secdrv.sys, which is part Macrovision's SafeDisc software included with Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP. The software, which can block unauthorized copying of some media, also ships with Windows Vista, but that OS is not affected. Microsoft said it knows of "limited attacks" that try to use the vulnerability
, in an attack known as an elevation of privilege. The vulnerability could allow a hacker with local access to a machine to elevate his access rights and gain administrator rights, for example, allowing him to install software. Microsoft said it was concerned that the vulnerability had been disclosed before it had a chance to fix it, which puts people at greater risk. "We continue to encourage responsible disclosure of
MySpace Still Denies Security Holes 2007-11-12 23:50:00 News Factor Network 12/11/2007Website: http://www.newsfactor.com Alicia Keys' MySpace
page isn't the only profile to be hacked with malware. Some 8,000 band profiles have been hacked in the exact same way -- and many of those profiles are still linked to malware sites, according to security researcher Chris Boyd, who first posted information about the attack on October 31.MySpace has denied that there is a security problem with the social-networking site, saying that the bands that were hacked fell victim to phishing attacks, which compromised their profile passwords. Writing on his VitalSecurity blog, Boyd said MySpace's explanation defies rational thinking. "This is patently nonsense," Boyd wrote. "What -- an endless stream of bands, record labels, music newspapers, and producers all woke up yesterday and forgot what the real MySpace Web site looks like? Give me a break." 'Bubbling Scum of Malware' The fact that Keys' profile was rehacked after My Read more:Holes
Some Ad Networks Are Bad News 2007-11-12 23:46:00 By Larry Seltzer - eWEEK You wouldn't go surfing to just any site. You're careful about where you go. You only go to sites you trust. But who are you trusting? A series of recent attacks has resulted in seemingly respectable news sites serving malware and redirecting users to sites that serve malware. The problem is in the ads on those news sites. The ads are served by advertising networks that weren't careful enough with their own security. When you trust a Web site you have to trust everyone it's in bed with.The first one I became aware of was YNet, an Israeli news site. Don't go to that site just yet. The Ynetnews.com site I read is in English. The Hebrew site at ynet.co.il is far more popular, in fact the most popular news site in Israel. It is the Internet site for Yedioth Ahronoth, a very large Israeli newspaper. About two weeks ago I noticed that after going to the page from a bookmark that had only the domain nam Read more:Bad News
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