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Autorun: good for you?

2007-09-23 05:29:48 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...autorun raises. It isn't new anymore, but DarkReading's Social engineering, the USB way is still the best story the make the point. Check it out I really can't think of any business reason for keeping this feature enabled. Please shut if off, domainwide, as soon as you can In Windows Vista/Server 2008 , go here Computer Configuration |...
 
Tags: autorun, autorun raises, autorun commands, autorun settings, key, registry key, disable autorun, computer, computer configuration
 
 
 
 
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Turn off Autorun - yet another reminder

2007-11-30 10:41:00 by Mike Rothman in Security Mike's Blog
 
...Autorun . Sure it seems convenient that when you load in a CD, DVD, or USB stick to take some automatic actions. Isn't is great to have the new Springsteen disc start to play once you put it in Actually, not so much. If any of that media is malicious, you've got no defense. If you remember back to the original Sony Rootkit issue from a few...
 
Tags: autorun, velvet revolver disc, disc, disc start, hack report site, tony bradley, pretty quickly, security mike, automatic actions
 
 
 
 
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More on Autorun

2007-10-30 22:12:27 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...Autorun: good for you? " I described why I believe you should disable Autorun on all computers in your organization. I also explained how you can do this for XP and Vista computers Well, it turns out that Windows will override this setting if you insert a USB drive that your computer has already seen. I received an email from Susan Bradley...
 
Tags: autorun, nick, glad nick, mountpoints2 registry key, registry, nick mentions, disable autorun, key, memory sitck worms
 
 
 
 
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Creating An Auto Hack USB Drive Using Autorun and Batch Files. By Dosk3n

2007-10-12 19:56:23 by Editor in Irongeek's Security Site
 
...Autorun and Batch Files. By Dosk3n Dosk3n was kind enough to send me the video, text an narration for a new infosec video. All I had to do was plug it into my template. If anyone else wants to submit a video, read my page on How I Make The Hacking Illustrated Videos . My only stipulations are that it has to be narrated and can't have...
 
Tags: infosec videos page, infosec video, video, videos, dosk3n, page, batch files, autorun, submit
 
 
 
 
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Throw away your digital picture frames

2008-02-19 03:36:49 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...Autorun , I suppose. Yet this isn't a cure-all: if you're logged in as administrator, the virus helpfully re-enables Autorun. Sheesh! If you own one of these frames, SANS suggests that you take it to a friend who has a Mac or Linux box and plug it in there. Yeah, that's good advice; there exist no viruses for these operating systems, correct?...
 
Tags: frames, picture frames, trojan, generic trojan, digital photo frames, trojan horse, virus apparently, malware, windows
 
 
 
 
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Are your digital devices Certified Pre-0wned?

2008-03-17 16:11:45 by Chris Wysopal in Zero in a bit
 
...Autorun.inf and autorun.exe. The exe would place itself in the recyclerrecycler folder and the .inf would place itself on the root of the removable drive as a hidden file. At first I thought this virus came in on one of our employees pen drive but after further investigation I discovered that the files that the virus uses were created on the...
 
Tags: devices, malware, low volume malware, drive, tech devices, usb drive, previously unknown malware, digital picture frame, inexpensive digital devices
 
 
 
 
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Malware Serving Exploits Embedded Sites as Usual

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2008-01-09 18:04:58 by HASH0x8957398 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...AutoRun.bkx; Win32/Cekar!generic Result: 27/31 (87.10 File size : 19501 bytes MD5 : 7b101f7baeae0ebab9ecc06fdb9542dc SHA1 : 36ffa50ce3873fb04c13c80421c205a7760f47ca The binary is using a default set of known executables of anti malware products, and is installing a default debugger injected upon execution of any of these, and is therefore...
 
Tags: htm, load uc147, uc147, loads 8v8, 8v8, load 8v8, iframes, recent realplayer exploit, secondary iframes
 
 
 
 
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Malware Attack Exploiting Flash Zero Day Vulnerability

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2008-05-27 17:33:43 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...AutoRun.NAD File size: 25229 bytes MD5...: 6be5a7b11601f8cb06ebba08c063aa09 SHA1..: 95d266e2e04e27a923467f483c23818c38ebe19e The password stealers Scanners result : 19/32 (59.38 Trojan.PWS.OnLineGames.WOM; Win32/TrojanDropper.Agent.NKK File size: 42268 bytes SHA1..: 7dfd51e96269f8d53354dd4c028d0c9481ebf4c8 Scanners result : 13/32 (40.63...
 
Tags: flash, malware, macromedia flash content, flash content, sample flash file, adobe flash player, adobe, participation domains, domains
 
 
 
 
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Malware Uses GDI Local Elevation Of Privilege Vulnerability To Install Untraceable Rootkit

2008-09-30 22:46:47 by CyberInsecure in CyberInsecure.com
 
Security researchers from F-Secure have discovered one of the most subtle and sophisticated examples of Windows rootkit software known to date. The AutoRun-NOX worm extends the standard VXer trick of using software vulnerabilities to infect systems, by including functionality that allows the worm to exploit Windows security bugs to hook into...
 
Tags: windows rootkit software, windows, autorun-nox worm extends, worm, standard vxer trick, software vulnerabilities, infect systems, security researchers, hook