McAfee ePO Security Vulnerabilities
Thursday July 31, 2003
Network Associates reports multiple vulnerabilities in its McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO). The flaws could allow a number of malicious actions to occur, including obtaining the SA password, stopping the service, ... Read More
Critical Flaw Leaves Windows Users Vulnerable
Wednesday July 30, 2003
A vulnerability affecting Microsoft operating systems has many security experts nervously forecasting a worm exploiting the flaw and prompting the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to issue an alert in ... Read More
DirectX a Direct Threat to Users
Thursday July 24, 2003
Home users are particularly susceptible to a flaw discovered in Microsoft's DirectX technology which can allow an attacker to run malicious code on an affected user's systems, operating with the ... Read More
Webber Trojan Targets Bank Customers
Tuesday July 22, 2003
A Trojan disguising itself as correspondence from well-known banking entities Wells Fargo, Citibank, and E-Loan has been plaguing users with messages purporting to be rejected loan applications. The message claims ... Read More
Gillette Cam SpyWear
Sunday July 20, 2003
Bad enough we have to worry about our computers hosting unwelcome programs that spy on our activities, via Spyware. In April we brought you info about RFID technology which threatened ... Read More
Could your computer be a criminal?
Wednesday July 16, 2003
One thousand home computers hijacked and used to serve up pornography. Perhaps tens of thousands co-opted by the “SoBig” virus, many of them turned into spam machines. Hundreds of other ... Read More
Sophos Debuts Antivirus for Mac OS X
Monday July 14, 2003
Antivirus vendor Sophos will be introducing Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac OS X at the MacWorld Expo on July 16-18. In addition to on-demand detection and disinfection of local, network, and ... Read More
Movie Clip Message a Parasite
Monday July 14, 2003
Antivirus developer Sophos is warning customers to be extra vigilant about reading licensing agreements before agreeing to having software installed on their system. In question are the tactics used by ... Read More
Reverse-Proxy Spam Trojan - Migmaf
Friday July 11, 2003
In late June 2003, spam-fighters from the news.admin.net-abuse.email Usenet group noticed a particular spammer seemed to be able to move his websites around at will, minute-by-minute. Joe Stewart, GCIH, Senior ... Read More
Trojans Exposed
Friday July 11, 2003
GFI has released a paper that exposes how hackers
can elude anti-virus software with custom Trojans.
As Trojans are increasingly being used to steal
credit card data, passwords, and other sensitive
information, and to ... Read More
Hacker Tracker Victim of Challenge
Sunday July 6, 2003
In an ironic twist, zone-h.org, the hack-tracking site which would have served as a sort of virtual scorecard for the July 6th Hackers Challenge, was subjected to a DDoS attack ... Read More
Government Warns of Mass Hacker Attacks
Wednesday July 2, 2003
A coordinated hacking contest set for Sunday, July 6th, have some government agencies and security experts issuing warnings. The hacking contest organizers award points based on skill and speed and ... Read More