by Alex Eckelberry | Mar 20, 2009 | Uncategorized
Does he really want me to link to his site, given the context? This is what he’s referring to — a list of domains hijacked by malware through the hosts file. Alex Eckelberry
by Alex Eckelberry | Mar 20, 2009 | Uncategorized
Something our friend Lance James came up with: Computer security researchers have devised a new Twitter attack that they say could spread virally, much like a worm on the microblogging service.The attack, posted online Thursday by researchers at Secure Science...
by Alex Eckelberry | Mar 20, 2009 | Uncategorized
As mentioned earlier today, Rafal Wojtczuk and Joanna Rutkowska have published a new paper on using cache poisoning to exploit the Systems Management Mode (SMM) in Intel 386 and above chipsets.Some interesting snippets:System Management Mode (SMM) is the most...
by Alex Eckelberry | Mar 20, 2009 | Uncategorized
The folks over at SRI have published an interesting additional information on Conficker.C. Worth reading. Link here.In this addendum report, we summarize the inner workings and practical implications of this latest malicious software application produced by the...
by Alex Eckelberry | Mar 19, 2009 | Uncategorized
For years, we’ve been hearing ads from freecreditreport. com. As you probably know, it’s not true — the service is not free. The FTC has launched an educational campaign, pushing the actual free credit report service,...
