July 2007 Archives

While keeping up with all the big and important threats like the Storm worm, the recent wave of PDF attacks, and continually resisting those special greeting cards from your ‘best friends’ who refuse to tell you their name, the fact... Read More..

Listen to or download the entire 11:30 podcast below: Download file What follows is a transcript of my discussion with Dave Cole, Director of Security Response at Symantec, where we discuss the lessons Symantec has learned over 25 years in... Read More..

Just had a friend visit from out of town, and as he's usually up on the latest and greatest gadgetry, he came toting the new iPhone. As you would expect with something from Apple, the iPhone is a beaut. Great... Read More..

A recent study at Indiana University tested several versions of phishing email on their students. And while some have questioned the ethics of sending out fake phishing emails to see how best to capture the students personal information, it seems... Read More..

At the same time that spam has shifted to carrying PDF files to slip past spam-filters (read my blog here), Sophos has released their study of the top 12 spamming countries from the 2nd quarter of 2007. Overall, the total... Read More..

A former student of Timberline High School in Lacey, Washington, started sending bomb threats to his former high school using a gmail account under a false name. According to Security Focus, the threats created havoc at the high school, forcing... Read More..

While spam has continued to grow, most people seem to have grown accustomed to it, treating spam as nothing more than a mere nuisance. But other than the fact that behind the scenes spam clogs up servers and often carries... Read More..

Most of you are probably familiar with the storm worm, which I blogged about here, and was one of the new generation of spam that, by adopting often alarming subject lines like deadly storms in Europe, are socially engineered to... Read More..

The Wall Street Journal reported that the chief executive of Whole Foods Market Inc. , John Mackey, wrote anonymous online attacks against one of his rivals, Wild Oats Markets. While this might happen more than we care to admit, the... Read More..

Yesterday, Microsoft issued six security bulletins covering 11 vulnerabilities, 7 which are deemed critical and covers flaws in Excel, Windows Active Directory along with the .Net Framework. Analysts had been sounding off about the flaws in .Net, as it serves... Read More..

Found a recent press release from IBM quite interesting, in that they announced they will be helping the Finnish Defense Forces (FDF) bring together various military and civilian organizations to better respond to crises. The initiative is called the Network-Centric... Read More..

The battle between Google and Microsoft is heating up with Google's purchase of Postini, a deal that is expected to close in the third quarter. While it might seem that Google is making a play in the security department to... Read More..

Fidelity National Information Services Inc, an electronic payments processor, announced on Tuesday that a database administrator pilfered and then sold as many as 2.3 million bank and credit card records. Since the discovery the worker has been fired, and Certegy... Read More..