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For your convenience, our Virus and Spyware Alerts are constantly updated from the most reliable sources. Additionally, from time to time, in this section we insert Alerts, Warnings and notifications from our own observation of the Internet.
US-CERT Current Activity
The US-CERT Current Activity web page is a regularly updated summary of the most frequent, high-impact types of security incidents currently being reported to the US-CERT.
Apple Releases Safari 4.0.5 Apple has released Safari 4.0.5 to address multiple vulnerabilities in ColorSync, ImageIO, PubSub, Safari, and WebKit. These vulnerabilities may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code, cause a denial-of-service condition, obtain sensitive information, or bypass security restrictions.
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12 Mar 2010 at 9:32am
Microsoft Releases March Security Bulletin Microsoft has released an update to address vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows and Office as part of the Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for March 2010. These vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code.
US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review the bulletin ...
9 Mar 2010 at 2:44pm
Energizer DUO USB Battery Charger Software Allows Remote System Access US-CERT is aware of a backdoor in the software for the Energizer DUO USB battery charger. This backdoor may allow a remote attacker to list directories, send and receive files, and execute programs on an affected system. The software, which has been discontinued, was available for both Windows a ...
8 Mar 2010 at 11:26am
Cisco Releases Multiple Security Advisories Cisco has released three security advisories to address vulnerabilities.
Security advisory cisco-sa-20100303-cucm, addresses multiple vulnerabilities in the Cisco Unified Communications Manager which affect the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), Skinny Client Control Protocol (SCCP), and the Comp ...
4 Mar 2010 at 7:00pm
Microsoft Releases Advance Notification for March Security Bulletin Microsoft has issued a Security Bulletin Advance Notification, indicating that its March release cycle will contain two bulletins. These bulletins will have a severity rating of Important and will be for Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office. Release of these bulletins is scheduled for Tuesday, ...
4 Mar 2010 at 2:57pm
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Facebook Users Suffer From ‘Fram’ About a year or so ago one of the “McMarketeers” decided it would be fun to run a campaign against “fram”–spam that friends send you. As you might guess, we in the Labs have no friends, so it was no problem for us to ridicule the idea. However, around the coffee machine the other [...]
12 Mar 2010 at 1:57pm
Malicious Web Attack Using Executable With facebook.com in Name As we were working through URLs identified as suspicious due to our GTI technology, one of the URLs that presented itself was an average “.com” site that loaded a php. As we processed this – it was interesting to see that this php actually reached out to download a file that ended with the strin ...
11 Mar 2010 at 12:20pm
McAfee Labs Publishes ‘March Spam Report’ McAfee Labs today published its March Spam Report. This month authors Adam Wosotowsky and Elan Winkler discuss a possible charity scam in France that takes advantage of sympathy for the victims of the Haitian earthquake, examine a “ham campaign” regarding events in Haiti, and look at another fr ...
10 Mar 2010 at 6:23pm
Chilean Earthquake Spawns Malware Most of us are familiar with how high profile news events are used for malware distribution. We’ve seen it many times such as with Tiger Woods’ scandal and the earthquake in Haiti. Now the recent earthquake in Chile is used to prey upon unsuspecting folks interested in what’s going on with the p ...
10 Mar 2010 at 3:27pm
Targeted Internet Explorer Zero-Day Attack Announced (CVE-2010-0806) Earlier today, Microsoft released Security Advisory (981374). This advisory covers CVE-2010-0806, an unpatched vulnerability affecting Internet Explorer versions 6 and 7. This attack appears to be rather targeted at the moment, but as with other unpatched vulnerabilities in the past, this has th ...
9 Mar 2010 at 9:30pm
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12 Mar 2010 at 10:23pm
Heuristic.ADH is a detection for files that may be malicious. Protection Initial Rapid Release version March 10, 2010 revision 024 Latest Rapid Release version March 10, 2010 revision 024 Initial Daily Certified version March 10, 2010 revision 037 Latest Daily
12 Mar 2010 at 10:23pm
Trojan.ADH is a detection for files that may be malicious. Protection Initial Rapid Release version March 10, 2010 revision 024 Latest Rapid Release version March 11, 2010 revision 039 Initial Daily Certified version March 10, 2010 revision 037 Latest Daily
12 Mar 2010 at 10:23pm
Sophos Earns Top Score from MacDirectory - IT security and data protection firm Sophos received MacDirectory's perfect five-star rating for . The publication's independent reviewer praised the product for its ability to 'detect, isolate and kill' all threats detected, and ranked Sophos's 24/7
12 Mar 2010 at 8:37pm
Trojan-Downloader:W32/Wimad.gen!A A trojan that secretly downloads malicious files from a remote server, then installs and executes the files. Additional Details This is the detection for malicious files that are executed using Windows Media Player (WMP). The files may use any extension
12 Mar 2010 at 10:33am
JS_SHELLCOD.JDT Description: Trend Micro has flagged this JavaScript as noteworthy due to the increased potential for damage, propagation, or both, that it possesses. To get a one-glance comprehensive view of the behavior of this malware, refer to the Threat Diagram
12 Mar 2010 at 2:05am
TROJ_INJECT.JDT Extract not available.
12 Mar 2010 at 2:05am
JS_REDIR.BZ Description: To get a one-glance comprehensive view of the behavior of this malware, refer to the Threat Diagram shown below. This is Trend Micro detection for malicious Javascript that exploits a vulnerability in Internet Explorer 6 and 7. This
12 Mar 2010 at 2:05am
For your convenience, our Virus and Spyware Alerts are constantly updated from the most reliable sources. Additionally, from time to time, in this section we insert Alerts, Warnings and notifications from our own observation of the Internet.
US-CERT Current Activity
The US-CERT Current Activity web page is a regularly updated summary of the most frequent, high-impact types of security incidents currently being reported to the US-CERT.
Apple Releases Safari 4.0.5 Apple has released Safari 4.0.5 to address multiple vulnerabilities in ColorSync, ImageIO, PubSub, Safari, and WebKit. These vulnerabilities may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code, cause a denial-of-service condition, obtain sensitive information, or bypass security restrictions.
U ...
12 Mar 2010 at 9:32am
Microsoft Releases March Security Bulletin Microsoft has released an update to address vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows and Office as part of the Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for March 2010. These vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code.
US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review the bulletin ...
9 Mar 2010 at 2:44pm
Energizer DUO USB Battery Charger Software Allows Remote System Access US-CERT is aware of a backdoor in the software for the Energizer DUO USB battery charger. This backdoor may allow a remote attacker to list directories, send and receive files, and execute programs on an affected system. The software, which has been discontinued, was available for both Windows a ...
8 Mar 2010 at 11:26am
Cisco Releases Multiple Security Advisories Cisco has released three security advisories to address vulnerabilities.
Security advisory cisco-sa-20100303-cucm, addresses multiple vulnerabilities in the Cisco Unified Communications Manager which affect the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), Skinny Client Control Protocol (SCCP), and the Comp ...
4 Mar 2010 at 7:00pm
Microsoft Releases Advance Notification for March Security Bulletin Microsoft has issued a Security Bulletin Advance Notification, indicating that its March release cycle will contain two bulletins. These bulletins will have a severity rating of Important and will be for Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office. Release of these bulletins is scheduled for Tuesday, ...
4 Mar 2010 at 2:57pm
McAfee Avert Labs
Cutting edge security research as it happens.......
Facebook Users Suffer From ‘Fram’ About a year or so ago one of the “McMarketeers” decided it would be fun to run a campaign against “fram”–spam that friends send you. As you might guess, we in the Labs have no friends, so it was no problem for us to ridicule the idea. However, around the coffee machine the other [...]
12 Mar 2010 at 1:57pm
Malicious Web Attack Using Executable With facebook.com in Name As we were working through URLs identified as suspicious due to our GTI technology, one of the URLs that presented itself was an average “.com” site that loaded a php. As we processed this – it was interesting to see that this php actually reached out to download a file that ended with the strin ...
11 Mar 2010 at 12:20pm
McAfee Labs Publishes ‘March Spam Report’ McAfee Labs today published its March Spam Report. This month authors Adam Wosotowsky and Elan Winkler discuss a possible charity scam in France that takes advantage of sympathy for the victims of the Haitian earthquake, examine a “ham campaign” regarding events in Haiti, and look at another fr ...
10 Mar 2010 at 6:23pm
Chilean Earthquake Spawns Malware Most of us are familiar with how high profile news events are used for malware distribution. We’ve seen it many times such as with Tiger Woods’ scandal and the earthquake in Haiti. Now the recent earthquake in Chile is used to prey upon unsuspecting folks interested in what’s going on with the p ...
10 Mar 2010 at 3:27pm
Targeted Internet Explorer Zero-Day Attack Announced (CVE-2010-0806) Earlier today, Microsoft released Security Advisory (981374). This advisory covers CVE-2010-0806, an unpatched vulnerability affecting Internet Explorer versions 6 and 7. This attack appears to be rather targeted at the moment, but as with other unpatched vulnerabilities in the past, this has th ...
9 Mar 2010 at 9:30pm
Develop Through Targeted Training - Sponsored Link Ad - Download a white paper about creating effective training & development programs.
12 Mar 2010 at 10:23pm
Heuristic.ADH is a detection for files that may be malicious. Protection Initial Rapid Release version March 10, 2010 revision 024 Latest Rapid Release version March 10, 2010 revision 024 Initial Daily Certified version March 10, 2010 revision 037 Latest Daily
12 Mar 2010 at 10:23pm
Trojan.ADH is a detection for files that may be malicious. Protection Initial Rapid Release version March 10, 2010 revision 024 Latest Rapid Release version March 11, 2010 revision 039 Initial Daily Certified version March 10, 2010 revision 037 Latest Daily
12 Mar 2010 at 10:23pm
Sophos Earns Top Score from MacDirectory - IT security and data protection firm Sophos received MacDirectory's perfect five-star rating for . The publication's independent reviewer praised the product for its ability to 'detect, isolate and kill' all threats detected, and ranked Sophos's 24/7
12 Mar 2010 at 8:37pm
Trojan-Downloader:W32/Wimad.gen!A A trojan that secretly downloads malicious files from a remote server, then installs and executes the files. Additional Details This is the detection for malicious files that are executed using Windows Media Player (WMP). The files may use any extension
12 Mar 2010 at 10:33am
JS_SHELLCOD.JDT Description: Trend Micro has flagged this JavaScript as noteworthy due to the increased potential for damage, propagation, or both, that it possesses. To get a one-glance comprehensive view of the behavior of this malware, refer to the Threat Diagram
12 Mar 2010 at 2:05am
TROJ_INJECT.JDT Extract not available.
12 Mar 2010 at 2:05am
JS_REDIR.BZ Description: To get a one-glance comprehensive view of the behavior of this malware, refer to the Threat Diagram shown below. This is Trend Micro detection for malicious Javascript that exploits a vulnerability in Internet Explorer 6 and 7. This
12 Mar 2010 at 2:05am