by Alex Eckelberry | Mar 29, 2010 | Uncategorized
Today, our friends at Trend Micro blogged about a new attack vector using Microsoft Word documents. We saw this as well last week, and have written a detection for the dropped trojan.It’s not just a “lawsuit” that’s being spammed, we also picked up another form of...
by Alex Eckelberry | Mar 29, 2010 | Uncategorized
Microsoft said today it will issue an out-of-band patch tomorrow for a vulnerability in Internet Explorer 6 and 7 that is being actively exploited.“The vulnerability exists due to an invalid pointer reference being used within Internet Explorer. It is possible under...
by Alex Eckelberry | Mar 29, 2010 | Uncategorized
It seems Larry Hryb, Director of XBox Live Programming, had his account taken over at the weekend. However, there are a number of faintly hysterical headlines claiming he was “hacked” along with “are you next?” taglines (such as this one), and I thought it might be...
by Alex Eckelberry | Mar 26, 2010 | Uncategorized
Well, this is unfortunate. In the UK, we have something called “The Big Issue”, which is a magazine designed to help the homeless get back into society via a legitimate income. It sells around 300,000 copies a week and is listed as the third-favourite newspaper of...
by Alex Eckelberry | Mar 26, 2010 | Uncategorized
Cracks in the Great Firewall of ChinaSlashdot.org had a brief story this morning about pro-Google comments of Chinese Web users that were carried on the ChinaSMACK web site.ChinaSMACK was registered in June 2008 by a California-based proxy service and it has a lot of...
