by Alex Eckelberry | Mar 20, 2007 | rants
This week’s editorial is sure to cause a firestorm with some in the security community. I’m sure my credibility will be attacked from all sides and I’ll be shunned by at least half the “experts” forevermore – because I’m about to question...
by Alex Eckelberry | Mar 20, 2007 | Uncategorized
As we reported earlier this month, Microsoft Live in Italy is serving massive amounts of infected pages through rogue search engine optimization by the Gromozon crew. The Register has picked up the story and run with it. To see for yourself, type “veicolo...
by Alex Eckelberry | Mar 19, 2007 | privacy
Wow, this reeks to high heaven. There’s lots of BMW dealerships out there in Southern California. Go to one which does not have an absurd policy of demanding a thumbprint in order to buy a car (like this South Bay BMW and Mini outfit). The dealership is apparently...
by Alex Eckelberry | Mar 19, 2007 | Uncategorized
My colleague John LaCour over MarkMonitor shared this one with me. It just goes to show how social networks can be used to spawn malware (as Dan Hubbard at WebSense describes it, “Web 2 dot uh oh”). When you give anyone in the world the ability to rapidly and...
by Alex Eckelberry | Mar 19, 2007 | Uncategorized
We’re finding buckets of infected forums, blogs, wikis and tikis. A lot of “compromised” educational (.edu) sites, most likely from unpatched vulnerabilities. Take a look at some of these examples (offensive screens are thumbnailed for the easily offended):As you can...
