Archive for the ‘Education’ Category
The Internet
A New Phishing Attack We were intrigued when looking at the demo of what has been dubbed ‘tabnabbing’, a new type of phishing attack discovered by Aza Raskin from Mozilla. Different from the more contemporary phishing attacks that generally lure victims directly to the malicious phishing page through emails and links, this attack could load [...]
In: Education, Security · Tagged with: phishing, Wardriving
Microsoft
As a reminder, Microsoft is planning to release two security bulletins today, March 9, 2010. Both bulletins carry a maximum severity rating of important and the issues addressed could lead to remote code execution. The first bulletin applies to various versions of Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 and is rated as important for all [...]
In: Education, Security · Tagged with: microsoft, Patches, Security, update, Vulnerabilities
Bridal Scam
We would also like to draw our readers’ attention to interesting media articles on a scam, with something of a twist. The scam involved a purported bridal convention in Boston, which would be held at a convention center, and even claimed part of the profits from the event would be donated to earthquake victims in [...]
In: Education · Tagged with: awareness
Happy Friday!
Adobe libtiff exploitation On Monday, we reported that Secunia had discovered that one of the recent Adobe Reader vulnerabilities was actually related to an old vulnerability in libtiff. Secunia had developed an exploit but kept it private. Now, there are reports that others have succeeded in constructing exploits for this issue as well. We encourage [...]
In: Education, Security · Tagged with: adobe, browser, chrome, exploit, libtiff, secunia, seo, vulnerability
Joke
During a recent password audit at a company, it was found that a receptionist was using the following password: “MickeyMinniePlutoHueyLouieDeweyDonaldGoofySacramento” When asked why she had such a long password, she said she was told that it had to be at least 8 characters long and include at least one capital…
In: Education, Security · Tagged with: passwords
Top Tips for Twenty Ten
Rules of Social Networking Pay attention to what you post and upload. Social networking is public. Consider images, videos, and information you publish You shouldn’t publish your address, date of birth, etc. Use a nick-name that only your friends know. Choose your friends with care. Do not accept friend requests from people you do not [...]
In: Education, Security · Tagged with: awareness, Security, tips
Microsoft MS10-015 BSOD Issue
Microsoft has acknowledged that there is an issue when applying the update related to advisory MS10-015 on systems that are infected with certain malware strains including one called “Tidserv”. These infected systems have a high likelihood of becoming unbootable displaying a PAGE_FAULT “Blue Screen of Death” (BSOD) error. Microsoft has issued directions on how to [...]
In: Education, Security · Tagged with: bsod, microsoft, Patches, Security, update, Vulnerabilities
Anti-Phishing Procedure for Email
I saw something like this on the Internet and I do want to give credit to where credit is due, but I cannot remember where I found this. We have recreated it for businesses. Please see the following flowchart for procedures on anti-phishing for email.
In: Education, Security · Tagged with: anti-phishing, awareness, email, hackers, id theft, phishing, Security
Why Strong Passwords Are Important
Most systems out in the world are secure. Very secure. Thousands of administrators and technical personnel apply patches and configurations to millions of systems throughout the world on a daily basis. In August 2009, someone hacked into Google, but not through a technical vulnerability within the Google infrastructure. A hacker found a personal email account. [...]
In: Education, Management, Security · Tagged with: awareness, id theft, Management, passwords, protection, safeguard, Security
Vulnerabilities
Cisco disclosed multiple vulnerabilities in their Unified MeetingPlace product. These issues leave the product vulnerable to SQL injection attacks and could allow attackers to bypass authentication. Cisco has released patches to address these issues. http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20100127-mp.shtml http://secunia.com/advisories/38259/ The open source library YaSSL was found to have a security vulnerability related to the negotiation of SSL certificates. [...]
In: Education, Security · Tagged with: apache, cisco, denial of service, sql injection, SSL, Unified Meeting Place, YaSSL