Enterprise Security Update

Apple gets a bounty on their head

Christopher — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:05:00 +0000

A Russian network of spam and malware affiliates known as “Partnerka” are beginning to aggressively focus on Apple Mac platform offering $.43 for each Mac machine infected. Dmitry...

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UNC data breach exposes 163,000 SSNs

Christopher — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:40:24 +0000

Another recent large scale breach has been identified as University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill notified around 163,000 women that there is a potential compromise that may result in the leak of...

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Twitter still vulnerable to cross site scripting attacks

Christopher — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 02:55:17 +0000

James Slater found a cross-site-scripting vulnerability on Twitter.com which Twitter claims is now fixed. According to James, it is not fixed. The vulnerability allows malicious JavaScript to be...

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WordPress Update 2.8.4

Christopher — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 04:32:55 +0000

Another update to the open source WordPress blogging platform has been released. This update is primarily a security update for a password reset flaw that was introduced with version 2.8.3. It is...

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Twitter Fail Whale Back!

Christopher — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:25:18 +0000

Twitter has been down since 6am PST. They changed the IP of their website and it has been confirmed this is an on-going Distributed Denial of Service Attack (DDOS). Twitter has partially recovered...

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Firefox patches SSL vulnerabilities

Christopher — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 05:24:20 +0000

Mozilla released Firefox 3.52. today that patches two vulnerabilities related to how the browser uses SSL certificates. Updating to this version via the auto update should protect against...

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Adobe patches more bugs

Christopher — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:21:33 +0000

Last Thursday Adobe patched 12 bugs in their Flash application, three of these were caused by Microsoft. For at least a week hackers have been exploiting at least one of these vulnerabilities. You...

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TechCrunch: Now Hiring Hackers

Christopher — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:44:45 +0000

Recently Twitter.com was hacked and 310 confidential documents were taken from their Google Apps account. These documents consisted of executive meeting notes, partner agreements and financial...

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Twitter says no to Koobface

Christopher — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:59:33 +0000

With Koobface spreading throughout social networking sites, Twitter has taken action by suspending accounts known to be infected with Koobface malware. Koobface takes control of logged in social...

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Keylogging: Malware or Legitimate Tool?

Christopher — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:34:38 +0000

Long considered to be malware and a threat to privacy and security, keylogging software has been found on Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 and Google Chrome. However, these keyloggers were not placed...

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