Following our blog, 0-Day attack on IE6: JS.Sykipot doesn’t spare retired software, covering the recent IE 0-day, we thought it might be interesting to look at an attack in the wild using this vulnerabili
Internet Explorer 6 may have taken its path to retirement but it still remains a good target for exploits, as we can see from JS.Sykipot.
Hello and welcome to this month’s blog on the Microsoft patch releases. This is a fairly quiet month—the vendor is releasing two bulletins covering a total of eight vulnerabilities.
Internet Explorer 6 may have taken its path to retirement but it still remains a good target for exploits, as we can see from JS.Sykipot.
Hello and welcome to this month’s blog on the Microsoft patch releases. This is a fairly quiet month—the vendor is releasing two bulletins covering a total of eight vulnerabilities.
“Big Brother Brazil” is a Brazilian reality TV program adapted from the popular Big Brother television series. The show is about a group of people living together in a purpose-built Big Brother house, isolated from the outside world, while being monitored by cameras 24×7.
We recently received a file (from CERT) for analysis. We found that the file was a Trojan that opens a back door on a compromised computer and listens for commands on port 7777. This by itself is not very unusual, but what surprised us was that this file was being distributed by Energizer Inc as part of a USB charger-monitoring software package.
According to Symantec’s latest State of Spam and Phishing report, scam and phishing messages accounted for 21 percent of all spam, which is the highest level recorded since the inception of the report. For comparison, these types of spam represented only 10 percent of total spam a year ago.