Bogus Microsoft Update Delivers Nasty File Infector

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

Even though Patch Tuesday is still two weeks from now, crimeware authors are already sending out fake Microsoft “critical updates.” The TrendLabs Content Security Team recently found a hoax purporting to be from Microsoft that urges users to update their computers due to a “critical security issue”. The email, which has ...

XSS Methods Also Seen Being Used in Mass Compromises

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

XSS (Cross-Site Scripting) Very Much Alive and Kicking We were about to investigate further on malicious activities related to banner82(dot)com/b.js but the URL was already inaccessible around Tuesday. Soon enough the malicious script in www(dot)adw95(dot)com caught our interest. A rough survey of the sites compromised by this script reveal that the ...

Shmoocon 2008 videos are now online

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

The videos from ShmooCon 2008 have hit the shelves. Go download them at: http://www.shmoocon.org/2008/videos/ EDIT: As of the time of this post, some of the videos are incorrectly named. Here is the 1-> 1: Correctly Named: 21st Century Shellcode for Solaris Advanced Protocol Fuzzing - What We Learned when Bringing Layer2 Logic to SPIKE land Backtrack ...

Lynis – Security and system auditing tool

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

Lynis is an auditing tool for Unix (specialists). It scans the system and available software, to detect security issues. Beside security related information it will also scan for general system information, installed packages and configuration mistakes. This software aims in assisting automated auditing, software patch management, vulnerability and malware scanning of ...

Nessus 3.2.1 Released – New Report Filtering Features Added

Friday, May 30th, 2008

Tenable Network Security has released version 3.2.1 of the Nessus vulnerability scanner. This point release includes a variety of small bug fixes as well as a new report filtering interface for the Nessus client. This blog entry will discuss the new Nessus features, bug fixes and reporting filters for the ...