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Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit has effectively shut down the Waledac botnet, cutting off cybercriminal access to hundreds of thousands of infected Windows computers around the world.
In partnership with security vendors and law enforcement officials, Microsoft implemented “Operation b49″ and moved to the federal courts to get a temporary restraining order cutting off 277 Internet domains believed to be run by criminals as the Waledac bot.
According to Microsoft associate general counsel Tim Cranton, the action quickly and effectively cut off traffic to Waledac at the “.com” or domain registry level, severing the connection between the command and control centers of the botnet and most of its thousands of zombie computers around the world.
Waledac is one of the 10 largest botnets in the US and is responsible to distributing billions of spam messages around the world. According to Microsoft, the botnet is estimated to have infected hundreds of thousands of computers around the world and, prior to this action, was believed to have the capacity to send over 1.5 billion spam emails per day.
Posted by Raven on Tuesday, March 02, 2010 @ 01:30:26 EST (58 reads) ( | Score: 0)
What enterprise still uses IE 6? Try Intel
Internet Explorer 6 is a relic, but corporations continue to cling to it. At this point, IE 6 in the enterprise is common, but it’s nonetheless surprising when Intel—Microsoft’s long-time partner—is still using the ancient browser.
In a blog post walking through its implementation of Windows 7, Intel talked a lot about the “heavy lifting” involved with moving from XP to Windows 7.
Turns out the browser is part of the heavy lifting.
DESCRIPTION: Tielei Wang has discovered a vulnerability in Google Picasa, which can be exploited by malicious people to potentially compromise a user's system. Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.
Posted by Raven on Wednesday, February 24, 2010 @ 22:35:15 EST (131 reads) (Read More... | 1128 bytes more | Score: 0)
Chatroulette offers random webcam titillation
I know this isn't the usual content for this site but I found it, well, interesting. Would this be classified as a "social" site? Feel free to discuss it in the forums if interested.
On Chatroulette, a new and controversial Web site, every click lands you in a face-to-face video conversation with a random stranger.
The setup is simple: Activate your webcam and click "play." Then, as people from all over the world pop up one at a time in a box on your screen, you decide whether or not to chat with them. If you don't like the looks of things, click "next" and the site shuffles you to someone new.
The people you meet could be friendly. During a recent CNN test of the site, a man from France popped up on the screen wearing a jester's hat and telling jokes in French. Two men dressed as skeletons were having a dance party to techno music and flashing lights. A slouched-over man in Tunisia said he was tired because he'd been on the site for four hours.
Posted by Raven on Tuesday, February 23, 2010 @ 07:36:19 EST (130 reads) ( | Score: 0)
Bloom Box Black SEO
Websense Security Labs(TM) ThreatSeeker(TM) Network has detected that search terms related to the Bloom Energy and its Bloombox Fuel Cell have become the latest target for Blackhat SEO poisoning attacks.
Bloom Box is a breakthrough technology in the energy sector that could revolutionize the way electricity is generated today. As people become interested in finding more information on this technology, related search terms are currently gaining momentum, and as they do so Blackhat SEO attacks are starting to climb up the search result listings.
At the moment, according to the VirusTotal report only 10% of antivirus products are detecting the threat.
Websense® Messaging and Websense Web Security customers are protected against this attack.
Posted by Raven on Monday, February 22, 2010 @ 21:18:45 EST (106 reads) ( | Score: 0)
Expose: Why we don't trust Devil Mountain Software (and neither should you)
From InfoWorld Editor in Chief Eric Knorr:
"On Friday, Feb. 19, we discovered that one of our contributors, Randall C. Kennedy, had been misrepresenting himself to other media organizations as Craig Barth, CTO of Devil Mountain Software (aka exo.performance.network), in interviews for a number of stories regarding Windows and other Microsoft software topics. Devil Mountain Software is a business Kennedy established that specializes in the analysis of Windows performance data. There is no Craig Barth, and Kennedy has stated that this fabrication was a misguided effort to separate himself (or more accurately, his InfoWorld blogger persona) from his Devil Mountain Software business.
Integrity and honesty are core to InfoWorld’s mission of service to IT professionals, and we view Kennedy’s actions as a serious breach of trust. As a result, he will no longer be a contributor to InfoWorld, and we have removed his blog from this site.
Over the past 10 years, Kennedy has contributed valuable information on Windows performance and other technical issues to InfoWorld and its readers — insight and analysis we still believe to be accurate and reliable. Based on our discovery, however, we cannot continue our relationship with Kennedy. Questions about this matter may be directed to Kennedy at rck@xpnet.com. We apologize to our readers."
Posted by Raven on Monday, February 22, 2010 @ 12:39:22 EST (91 reads) ( | Score: 0)
Internet Security 10 or IS2010
papamike writes "System: WinXP
I doubt that many of you out there have even heard of this threat, but it's real and it's out there to destroy your day. And to keep thing interesting there are varing versions of IS2010. I will brag and tell you that since 1995 I have never had a virus on any of my computers. But, while visiting a website that I frequent in the evening hours to watch old movies, IS2010 jumped all over my computer.
Now if you read up on the threat you will find that it's identified as a Rogue Virus. That is something that sends out fake alerts to get you to usually purchase a virus removal software program to remove the "fake" virus. BE AWARE these programs usually do nothing. Actually I found a website a few minutes ago that offers a program that rids your computer of this threat. You download the program, it scans your system showing threats then informs you that you will need to purchase the software to cleanup the problems. Go here to learn more: http://www.virusremovalguru.com/?p=258
What makes IS2010 so dangerous is that it loads a small executable onto your system which downloads fake alerts in rapid succession and it also changes your wallpaper, freezes your desktop, and prevents you from changing the wallpaper that has been changed to one of theirs which tells you that your system is infected. And each time you reboot it loads everything again until the .exe file is destroyed.
The .exe file is automatically triggered and downloads other viruses, trojans, rogue software, and a rootkit all in such a way that your virus scanning software can't keep up. The user possibly gets extremely taken away by how fast things are happening. Your desktop is frozen you can't download anything except download the program that they claim will solve all of your problems. DO NOT download or purchase it.
Here's what I did to get rid of this thing. "
Posted by Raven on Thursday, February 18, 2010 @ 16:31:30 EST (185 reads) (Read More... | 4878 bytes more | Score: 0)
osc2nuke V3 Pre-Release For RavenNuke(tm)
whitehat writes "I'm proud to announce osc2nuke can release its newest integration of oscommerce to RavenNuke(tm)!
The newest oscommerce 3.05 ALPHA by oscommerce team will go become the best shopping cart experience in the e-commerce world.
Keep in mind this is only a alpha release and not a RC (release candidate) , so it isn't production ready (yeah right).
Have a lot of development fun and visit our site and forum frequently for new updates and questions/answers to this great module.
DESCRIPTION: Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Google Chrome, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose sensitive information, manipulate certain data, or potentially compromise a user's system. The vulnerabilities are reported in versions prior to 4.0.249.89.
Posted by Raven on Thursday, February 11, 2010 @ 19:15:53 EST (197 reads) (Read More... | 1793 bytes more | Score: 0)
Spammers already using Google Buzz
"With all the buzz this week about Google Buzz, we were just waiting for malicious activity to show up on the newly launched service. We didn't quite expect it to happen this fast. Today we saw the first spam using Google Buzz to spread a message about smoking.
The spammer is already following 237 people, and we can only imagine that he or she has sent similar messages to all of them. This particular message leads to a site hosted on a free Web hosting service talking about how to quit smoking.
When Twitter was launched, it took a while before it was used to send spam and other malicious messages. In this case,
Posted by Raven on Thursday, February 11, 2010 @ 18:58:18 EST (193 reads) (Read More... | 1423 bytes more | Score: 0)
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