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LifeLock will pay $12 million for false claims

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:02:00 +0000

LifeLock, Inc., the company that GUARANTEED it would prevent customers’ identities from being stolen (for $10 per month) has agreed to pay fines totaling $12 million because the claims it made to promote its protection services were false, according to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. The company will pay $11 million to the FTC and $1 million to the attorneys general of 35 states.

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:49:00 +0000

MS10-016: Vulnerability in Windows Movie Maker Could Allow Remote Code Execution (975561) MS10-017: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Excel Could Allow Remote Code Execution (980150) http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/current.aspx Tom Kelchner

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Cute (and malicious)

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:28:00 +0000

There’s an angelically tinged infection doing the rounds at the moment that has more than a whiff of sulphur about it. We can’t say for definite, but it looks like the point of this little angel is to turn your PC into a file storage area for an IRC channel since it dumps you into #music IRC channels and makes sure you can accept various media files. Our tale begins with an Email, claiming you have a “funny picture from Facebook friends” waiting for you at Oast(dot)com: This is what the end-user will download onto their system – an executable claiming to be a .gif: Should they run the file, two things will happen

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Energizer USB charger infected with Trojan

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:21:00 +0000

Hmmm. A new vector for malware: USB battery chargers. Wonderful

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Five years ago today on the Sunbelt Blog

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:24:00 +0000

“Is Spyware Real?” March 4, 2005: Sunbelt Software CEO Alex Eckelberry blogged his disagreement with comments made by AV pioneer Eugene Kaspersky about a new thing called “spyware.” Alex quoted him as saying: “The term spyware is basically a marketing gimmick… Just to separate new ersatz-security products from traditional ones, just to push almost zero-value products to the security market.” The Sunbelt CEO explained that spyware was real and traditional AV vendors were ignoring it: “The term ‘spyware’, obviously, is a broad term encompassing lots of different categories of malware.

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Search engine bait and switch

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:34:00 +0000

Our good friends at F-Secure AV company have blogged about a new and significant malcode-delivery technique: publishing a web page with a .pdf file on it then changing the .pdf link to something malicious after search engines index the page. What they found delivered a rogue security product (but of course.) Nice work F-Secure.

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Patch Tuesday coming next week

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:40:00 +0000

Microsoft has issued an advance notification for Patch Tuesday next week. The company said it expects to issue two patches, one for Windows and one for Office

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Chat with malcode

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 23:40:00 +0000

It’s time for your daily dose of “spot the fake program / avoid the fake program”.

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The Internet as a moral ground

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:58:00 +0000

“…in that space one can easily indulge in depravity, lies, vulgarity…” Here’s a sort of comment about the Internet that you don’t see much in the news. The Russian government news service RiaNovosti is reporting that Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia (head of the Russian Orthodox Church), told school students in Moscow that “Nowadays the Internet is a kind of laboratory where an individual should be formed and where a character should be sharpened.” “He also said the Internet has become ‘an examination on our authenticity, an enormous power challenge’ as in that space one can easily indulge in depravity, lies, vulgarity, and the desire to lash out with aggression and impunity,” the news service reported.

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Malicious iframes on Google-analitics(dot)net

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:27:00 +0000

Right! A site registered in the state of “Taliban.” You’re really going to go to a site with this registration: Nice work SANS. Thanks to Daniel Wesemann at SANS: http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=8350 Tom Kelchner

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