May 19, 2012

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Phishing Email from FDIC targets Businesses

It’s tax season and we’ve already seen the tax related phishing Emails showing up in our inbox. Early this morning a new phishing scheme was detected that is targeting businesses with Emails purportedly from the FDIC. If you take the time to evaluate the link it can be easily determined to be just that. Here [...]

Twitter Phishing DM and Fake Twitter Website in the Wild

Please be very careful following any hyperlinks on Twitter. Tonight I received a direct message from someone I am following on one of my accounts. The message includes a link to a fake Twitter website that appears to be the way this user was originally compromised. Watch the video (updated 1/16/2012) if you want to [...]

2 Things Everyone Needs to Know about the WPS Vulnerability

You may have heard recently that there is a vulnerability affecting many wireless access points. It has to do with Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) which is supposed to make it easier to configure devices to use your wireless network. The problem is the WPS system is vulnerable to a brute force attack that will allow [...]

Critical Java update and a stark reminder to update JAFO

The latest advisory for Oracle Java addresses a total of 20 vulnerabilities 19 of those 20 may be remotely exploitable. Remotely exploitable vulnerabilities are very high information security priorities because they can allow rapid propagation of a malware or computer viruses. It’s time to add a new acronym For some time now we’ve all learned [...]

Duqu in the wild, not the drivers you were looking for.

The Duqu Remote Access Trojan (RAT) that hit the wild in Europe this week is not a character in the latest Star Wars movie. While it sounds like a George Lucas inspired character duqu comes from the ~DQ prefix that researchers noticed this previously unknown malware was adding to files it creates when it was [...]