Apple MAC OSX 1.6 ‘Snow Leopard’ In-built Anti-Malware
News, via Intego, of the appearance of integrated anti-malware sub-routines in the latest Apple Inc. (NasdaqGS: AAPL) MAC OSX operating system enumerated as 10.6. Monikered Snow Leopard, the operating systems’ built-in anti-malware protection is a welcome feature, in the effort to restrict cybercrime vectors. More information appears after the jump.
Majority of Charges Dropped Against Rogue Network Administrator
In news out of the City By The Bay, a majority of the charges levied by the City and County of San Francisco against their former network administrator – Terry Childs – have been dropped. In an action on Friday, August 21st, Superior Court Judge Kevin McCarthy dropped three individual tampering charges laid against the [...]
New MAC Trojan Reported, Rated Low On Badness Scale
News of a mutant OSX/JAHLAV trojan (targeting Apple Corporation’s (NasdaqGS: AAPL) MAC OSX systems) and monikered by TrendMicro as “OSX_JAHLAV.I” has been reported in the wild. Posing as pirated copies of PDF reader/writer FoxIT and QuickTime, it is – by company accounts – a “low intensity” infector… More information from the original post, and links, [...]
Evidence: Microsoft Bing Drug Advertising Tainted
Accountability? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Accountability…
Bad news, from highly respected security researchers LegitScript and KnuJon: Stunning evidence has come to light – to wit, the vast majority (over 85%) of internet-based pharmacy advertisers flogging their wares on Microsoft Corporation’s (NasdaqGS: MSFT) Bing search site (referred to by the company as a ‘decision engine’) are [...]
US-CERT Technical Cyber Security Alert TA09-209A
Following up on previous posts related to the recent out-of-band security advisories dropped on us by our friends in Redmond, US-CERT has announced, via the National Cyber Alert System, Technical Cyber Security Alert enumerated as TA09-209A. Specifically targeting the previously reported Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer, and Active Template Library (ATL) vulnerabilities, more information, including the [...]
MessageLabs Releases Q2 Intelligence Report
MessageLabs has released their 2009 Second Quarter Intelligence Report, in PDF format. Interesting statistics include: Junes’ spam levels, as measured by the company, remained unchanged from May’s numbers (apparently due to the Cutwail botnet shutdown – mh). More information, including a link to the report page, appears after the jump.
Waledac Activity Increases Over Holiday Weekend
News (0n July 4th), from the ShadowServer Foundation, of new activity attributed to Waledec infestations spamming the interwebs. More information, including the malware-laden domain names (for blocking) appear after jump.
ATM Security Researcher Censored
News, yesterday, of the latest censorship actions targeting BlackHat presenters. This time, Juniper Networks has muffled the presentation slated for the hack confab by Barnaby Jack, an employee of the networking concern. Not surprisingly, his presentation, focused on Automated Teller Machine vulnerabilities, was seen as a threat. A short snippet of the original news item [...]
Beckstrom Moves Into ICANN Presidency, Can He Clean It Up?
News (very good news, in our opinion), over the weekend, of the appointment of the highly respected Rod Beckstrom as the incoming president of ICANN. Beckstrom (A Stanford grad, with an MBA, as well as a Fulbright Scholar) has served our country [with distinction] as the Director of the National Cybersecurity Center (NCSC) at the [...]
Hacktivists Target Iran Regime
News, from Wired.com’s DangerRoom of new, pernicious DDoS attacks targeting the Iranian regime, in the wake of the country’s internal policatical issues. More information, including a short excerpt of the original article, appears after the jump.
