by Alex Eckelberry | Jul 13, 2007 | Uncategorized
From Italian researcher, Mauro, internet-explorer(dot)name offers to update IE. Choosing either Express (Rapido) or Custom (Personalizzato) prompts to download a malicious file, ie.exe, which looks like a trojan click fraud tool (Virus Total results here). It...
by Alex Eckelberry | Jul 13, 2007 | Uncategorized
As blogged earlier today, we have received scattered reports that the Tuesday’s Microsoft MS070–040 .NET pitch was causing problems on some customer sites running Sunbelt Ninja Email Security.This evening, our developers released an update for the problem. Customers...
by Alex Eckelberry | Jul 12, 2007 | Uncategorized
We’ve been blogging on all the .edu sites being hacked. A lot of this is just comment spam. Here’s a rather unsavory example:I know there’s been stories about the undue liberalization of education, but doesn’t this, uh, go a...
by Alex Eckelberry | Jul 12, 2007 | Uncategorized
As privacy is a related subject to security, I often write about this issue, usually about what I believe are dangerous encroachments into the area.Invariably, I get angry readers who decry my laments, seeing me as not understanding the “realities of the post 9/11...
by Alex Eckelberry | Jul 12, 2007 | Uncategorized
This morning, SANs reported scattered reports that MS07–040 (KB928365), which attempts to resolve certain security issues in .NET, is causing problems: It seems there are a number of readers struggling with the MS07-040 patch for the .NET framework on what appears to...
