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  • Seagate settles class action: cash back over misleading hard drive capacities

    The world's largest hard disk manufacturer will offer customers 5% cash back on disk drives bought over the last six years in order to settle a legal action over the measurement of hard drive capacity. But the real story starts way back, when marketers decided 24 bytes didn't mean much. In modern...
    Posted to Donna's SecurityFlash (Weblog) by donna on Mon, Oct 29 2007
    Filed under: General Security News, Miscellaneous

  • Storm Worm variant now using Kittycard.exe as filename

    Kittycard.exe is now of one the filename use by this Storm Worm. Email received today: The new filename is Kittycard.exe: Half of malware scanners via VirusTotal.com will detect it while half did not: For you... to read : The Storm Worm: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/10/the_storm_worm.html...
    Posted to Donna's SecurityFlash (Weblog) by donna on Sat, Oct 27 2007
    Filed under: General Security News, In the Wild

  • What's with the malicious PDF file?

    Symantec wrote: the PDF file will download ldr.exe file F-Secure reports: The PDF is spiced with CVE-2007-5020 exploit that downloads ms32.exe that downloads more components. So I grab both .exe files (ms2.exe and ldr.exe) and uploaded it to Virustotal.com. The AVs should protect and detect users from...
    Posted to Donna's SecurityFlash (Weblog) by donna on Sat, Oct 27 2007
    Filed under: General Security News, In the Wild

  • Security experts blast New Jersey AG

    Security experts are saying that a well-intentioned effort by the New Jersey Office of the Attorney General to combat phishing may backfire. Earlier this week, State Attorney General Anne Milgram called on four banks -- Bank of America, Citibank, Washington Mutual, and New Jersey-based Sun National Bank...
    Posted to Donna's SecurityFlash (Weblog) by donna on Sat, Oct 27 2007
    Filed under: General Security News, Online Privacy

  • In the wild: Malicious PDF files; Which AV will detect it?

    If you haven't update your Adobe Reader to v8.1.1, you better to do it NOW. The vulnerability is being exploited now and yup, it's in the wild because I received copies already. Screenshots at http://www.dozleng.com/updates/index.php?showtopic=16119 Adobe fixed the security issue by releasing...
    Posted to Donna's SecurityFlash (Weblog) by donna on Fri, Oct 26 2007
    Filed under: General Security News, In the Wild

  • Symantec took a closer look on rogue applications

    Symantec blog today on how rogue applications infiltrate user's machine to earn money. It's done by rogue apps thru System tray, Active Desktop, Dialogue box. Symantec provided some screenshots including a misleading application with a Windows Vista look. http://www.symantec.com/enterprise/security_response...
    Posted to Donna's SecurityFlash (Weblog) by donna on Fri, Oct 26 2007
    Filed under: Spyware, General Security News

  • Free Software Tests for Bot Infections

    PineApp has released a free zombie test that can instantly discover whether an organization’s computer network might be an unwitting spamming machine -- a “zombie” or “bot” -- that can send thousands of infected spam messages to other networks—without its knowledge. As a global provider of appliance...
    Posted to Donna's SecurityFlash (Weblog) by donna on Fri, Oct 26 2007
    Filed under: Anti-virus, Spyware, Trojan Horse, General Security News, Revealed

  • Phoenix Partners With Rutkowska in Securing Hypervisor

    Phoenix Technologies has teamed up with researcher and stealth malware expert Joanna Rutkowska and her company, Invisible Things Lab, to help secure an ultra-thin hypervisor that the firmware company is currently building. The company also plans to support further development of Rutkowska's famed...
    Posted to Donna's SecurityFlash (Weblog) by donna on Fri, Oct 26 2007
    Filed under: General Security News

  • America continues to spam the world

    The United States remains the world's biggest spammer, according to security firm Sophos, which today released its quarterly report on the world's top spam-offending countries--dubbed the "Dirty Dozen". The United States came in streaks ahead of its rivals, being responsible for 28...
    Posted to Donna's SecurityFlash (Weblog) by donna on Fri, Oct 26 2007
    Filed under: General Security News, Spam

  • Verizon Wireless Drops FCC Open Access Suit

    The company filed a notice in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on Tuesday to drop the appeal. This is the same court that had previously turned down Verizon Wireless' effort to have its suit considered on a fast track so it could be decided before the auction in January. The...
    Posted to Donna's SecurityFlash (Weblog) by donna on Thu, Oct 25 2007
    Filed under: General Security News
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