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Goodbye IE6

2006-10-17 15:01:13 by Liudvikas Bukys in Liudvikas Bukys
 
...appearance of this problem is correlated with the appearance of two new aggressive JavaScript interfaces: The much-improved BlogLines feed selector, and the very-irritating Yahoo Finance streaming quotes feature (which slows down every refresh even when set to off). That may just be coincidence It does mean theres some serious undiscovered...
 
Tags: xpsp sp2 gdr, window contents, window, aggressive javascript interfaces, microsoft internet explorer, firefox andor ie7, bloglines feed selector, memory corruption, render correctly
 
 
 
 
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Mashup of the Titans

2008-06-25 17:29:25 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
 
...appearance of the protection mechanism and to its underlying implementation Conclusion(gp): A conservative design principle that puts the object's owner in control of permissions. This makes a lot of sense from the object point of view, but does little to address the use case in which it executes Saltzer and Schroeder c) Complete...
 
Tags: protection mechanisms, protection mechanisms correctly, information security, information, implements protection mechanisms, information travels, information security people, protection, potential information path
 
 
 
 
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Thwarting a large-scale phishing attack

2007-06-11 11:35:00 by Niels Provos in Google Online Security Blog
 
...appearance of legitimacy of these phishing pages. In fact, we received thousands of complaints from confused users along the lines of " Why won't it let any of my friends look at my pictures? " regarding our warnings on these phishing pages, suggesting that even an explicit warning was not enough to protect many users. The effectiveness of...
 
Tags: myspace, myspace profiles, real myspace content, myspace account, attack, dummy myspace account, phishers move, phishers, lower-value sites
 
 
 
 
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Speaking of Security Podcast #45

2007-01-15 00:00:00 by Podcast Producers in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
Click here to listen/download (06:56 This week, co-host Paul Joyal speaks with Rich Mogull , Research Vice President for Information Security and Risk at Gartner , a global analyst firm that delivers technology-related insight to its clients. He talks about his upcoming appearance at the RSA Conference in early February and offers his views on...
 
Tags: research vice president, key security issues, global analyst firm, rich mogull, rsa conference, information security, listendownload, talks, appearance
 
 
 
 
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Bogus Microsoft sweepstakes emails

2007-08-19 22:35:48 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...appearance coming from Microosft UK, so using an American domain seems odd The subject line is "YOU WON (500,000.00GBP)! Microsoft congratulates you!" Official communications from us typically DON'T SHOUT FROM THE ROOFTOPS. Also, it's incorrect to use both a currency symbol and the three-letter currency name. This like saying "$1,000USD."...
 
Tags: microsoft sweepstakes, sweepstakes, microsoft, email, email insists, domain, american domain, subject line, emails
 
 
 
 
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Show 019 - An Interview with Mikko Hyppönen

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2007-10-18 15:21:38 by rmacmich in The Silver Bullet Security Podcast
...appearance of the first mobile botnet. They also chat about Finnish hip-hop Mikko Hyppönen Mikko Hyppönen - Wikipedia F-Secure Mobile Malware - Mikkos USENIX 2007 talk, both audio and video (scroll down a bit Xevious The FSMCs
 
Tags: mikko, mikko discuss helsinki, gary interviews mikko, gary, chief research officer, finnish hip-hop, finnish pronunciation, f-secure, 19th episode
 
 
 
 
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House committee issues report and finds fault with TSA web site

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2008-01-15 09:35:53 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...appearance of the site was so poor that he first suspected it was a phishing site Incredible that they would take the site live using a self-signed certificate. It shows major incompetence (elementary oversight should have caught this) and at Desyne, Inc. Someone is either too stupid or too cheap to purchase a real SSL certificate before...
 
Tags: tsa, website, website contract, traveler redress website, tsa moved quickly, security breach, information security breach, security vulnerabilities, multiple security vulnerabilities
 
 
 
 
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RBN's Fake Account Suspended Notices

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2008-01-15 19:07:34 by HASH0x8b4a7ec in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...appearance at otrix.ru , where in between the obfuscation an IFRAME loads to 58.65.233.97/forum.php , where two more get loaded 4qobj63z.tarog.us/tds/in.cgi?14 ; 4qobj63z.tarog.us/tds/in.cgi?15 . Deja vu, again, again and again - 4qobj63z.tarog.us was among the domains used in the malware embedded attack again the French government's site...
 
Tags: media malware gang, malware gang, malware, rbn, exe, russian business network, actual operational department, fake account, network
 
 
 
 
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Wired.com and History.com Getting RBN-ed

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2008-03-10 14:20:33 by HASH0x8aeaaa0 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...appearance at malware embedded attack at a .gov site recently Scanner results : 3% Scanner(1/36) found malware! File Size : 16643 byte MD5 : 99eae1a189443c1a87681579cb4b5dbd SHA1 : 89a04c4d06f51aa6d6cb54925a2c84d2bbdba06b Arcavir - Trojan.HTML.JScript.Freebs.gen.9 under the JS:Feebs family; W32/Feebs-Fam ;JS.Feebs.Gen Several more...
 
Tags: malware, vbs malware, malware attack, rbn, media malware gang, iframe injection attack, iframe injection, malware research, high-profile sites
 
 
 
 
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French Trader Jerome Kerviel Spoofed Emails to Legitimize Fake Transactions

2008-01-30 11:00:41 by Kenneth F. Belva in BlogInfoSec.com