by Alex Eckelberry | Aug 27, 2010 | Uncategorized
Microsoft has posted an advisory that explains the “DLL preloading attacks” and offers a work-around tool that “allows customers to disable the loading of libraries from remote network or WebDAV shares. This tool can be configured to disallow insecure...
by Alex Eckelberry | Aug 27, 2010 | Uncategorized
Dude! Chill! EVERYBODY wants to shoot them!A variety of news outlets are reporting an incident in Salt Lake City in which an employee of a mortgage company allegedly got drunk at a concert, returned to his office and put several .45 caliber bullets into a company...
by Alex Eckelberry | Aug 27, 2010 | Uncategorized
I’ve been seeing a lot of questions pop up in relation to a website involving a “free Pokemon MMORPG”.Click to EnlargeShall we take a look?The site in question is (of course) pokemon(dot)awesomefreegames(dot)net. You’re promised an awesome...
by Alex Eckelberry | Aug 26, 2010 | Uncategorized
You get to choose your poison.A Trojan that pretends to be a Microsoft security function is popping up something new.Basically, it mimics the idea of VirusTotal, ( http://www.virustotal.com/ ) a site which enables you to see how 40 legitimate security companies...
by Alex Eckelberry | Aug 25, 2010 | Uncategorized
Our alert analyst Adam found this one, although we don’t know why he was doing web searches for “Miss Universe 2010.” He clicked on one, expecting to see long legs. Instead, he saw this pop up:(click image to enlarge)VIPRE detects it as FraudTool.Win32.SecurityTool...
