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'Diehard' virus variants flexing muscle

2008-01-02 00:00:00 by Ellen Messmer in Network World on Security
 
New Windows-based "downloader" malware known as Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Diehard has surged to the top of Kaspersky Lab's "Virus Top Twenty" list for December because of its "explosive propagation," the security firm said Wednesday
 
Tags: virus top twenty, top, security firm, explosive propagation, kaspersky lab, diehard, downloader, malware, win32
 
 
 
 
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Demos Report on National Security

2008-01-03 06:33:52 by Editor in Schneier on Security
 
National Security for the Twenty-First Century," by Charlie Edwards at the British think-tank Demos. It's long -- 121 pages -- but there's some good stuff in it
 
Tags: national security, british think-tank demos, charlie edwards, twenty-first century, stuff, pages
 
 
 
 
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Swedish Army Loses Classified Information on Memory Stick

2008-01-09 13:46:31 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
Oops : The daily newspaper, Aftonbladet, turned the stick over to the Armed Forces on Thursday. The paper's editorial office obtained the memory stick from an individual who discovered it in a public computer center in Stockholm An employee of the Armed Forces has reported that the misplaced USB memory stick belongs to him. The employee...
 
Tags: stick, memory stick, public computer center, computer, public computer, information, armed forces, swedish army, stick belongs
 
 
 
 
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Improvements in Face Recognition

2008-02-11 07:18:18 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
Ignore the laughable "100% accurate" claim; this is an interesting idea: Mike Burton, Professor of Psychology at Glasgow, and lecturer Rob Jenkins say they achieved their hugely-improved results by eliminating the variable effects of age, hairstyle, expression, lighting, different camera equipment etc. This was done by producing a composite...
 
Tags: lecturer rob jenkins, research nonetheless, mike burton, grainy photograph, variable effects, camera equipment, composite, range, age
 
 
 
 
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Inside a Botnet's Phishing Activities

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2008-02-25 09:34:49 by HASH0x8b44f48 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
The following incident response assessment will demonstrate how a botnet's infected hosts can not only be used as stepping stones , but also for the purpose of sending out phishing emails, and hosting the domains used in the scams themselves, thereby forwarding the responsibility for the scams to the infected parties, in between remaining...
 
Tags: net, botnet, bkdr agent, agent, microsoft, hosts phone, domains, hosts, ecosystem
 
 
 
 
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ZDNet Asia and TorrentReactor IFRAME-ed

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2008-03-04 09:15:20 by HASH0x8b3f7c8 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
This currently ongoing malware embedded attack aimed at ZDNet Asia and TorrentReactor is very creative at the strategic level, whereas the IFRAME-ing tactic remains the same. The sites' search engines seem to have been exploited to have the IFRAME injected, not embedded, within the last 24 hours, redirecting to known Russian Business Network's...
 
Tags: iframe, zdnet asia, pages, pages redirect, iframe-ed pages, torrentreactor, iframe-ing tactic remains, seo practices, torrentreactor seo practices
 
 
 
 
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40,000 BlueCross BlueShield members notified of lost laptop

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2008-03-11 15:31:27 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
Technorati Tag: Security Breach Date Reported 3/10/08 Organization HealthNow New York Inc Contractor/Consultant/Branch BlueCross BlueShield of Western New York Victims Healthcare members Number Affected 40,000 Types of Data Names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, addresses, employer group names, and health insurance identifier...
 
Tags: sensitive personal information, personal information, information, confidential information, laptop, information owners, breach description, breach, security breach
 
 
 
 
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A Portfolio of Fake Video Codecs

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2008-03-19 17:27:56 by HASH0x8b5b564 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
Shall we expose a huge domains portfolio of fake/rogue video codecs hosting the same Zlob variant on each and every of the domains, thereby acting as a great example of what malicious economies of scale means? But of course. As I've pointed out in a previous post, on the tactical warfare front the output of a malicious IFRAME campaign is often...
 
Tags: single zlob variant, zlob variant, zlob, zlob malware variant, net, malware, domains, huge domains portfolio, dvdaccess
 
 
 
 
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VMSafe = A Safer More Secure VMWare Environment

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2008-02-28 03:35:26 by John Peterson in Security In The Virtual World
New VMware VMsafe Technology Allows the Virtual Datacenter to Be More Secure Than Physical Environments Twenty Industry-Leading Security Vendors, Including CheckPoint, McAfee and Symantec, Endorse VMsafe Technology and Announce Plans to Build Interoperable Security Solutions Cannes, FRANCE, February 27, 2008 VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global...
 
Tags: vmware, security companies, individual security companies, security, security products, solutions, interoperable security solutions, physical security appliance, vmware vmsafe