In an advisory sent Wednesday afternoon, Juniper said a
variety of devices could be forced to reboot by sending them internet
packets with maliciously formed TCP options. Read the full article. [The Register]
By Andrew StormsThe year was 2001. Code Red, the Microsoft Web Server worm was running rampant and underscored every security professional’s perception that Microsoft products were both a necessary evil and a serious security liability.
Fast-forward to nine years later. Microsoft products still contain more than a few nasty bugs, but the company is more likely to be considered a valued partner than a security liability by the security community.
In an undercover mission to learn more about
the size and scope of the son of the infamous Storm botnet, Waledac,
German researchers have discovered the spamming botnet is much bigger
and more efficient than previously thought. Read the full article. [Dark Reading]
Instead of the usual top ten lists that are all-too-common with predictions for the new year, I have just one: 2010 will be the year of desktop applications handling untrusted data in sandboxed processes, and it will be about time.
Online scammers are re-scamming Internet pharmaceutical customers with a new ploy: posing as government agents and extorting money from them, says the US Food and Drug Administration. Read the full article. [Info Security]
A prominent anti-spyware researcher is calling on Google to sever its ties with an advertising partner that covers popular sites with pop-up PPC advertisements promoting those same sites.
Banks, military contractors and software companies, along with federal
agencies, are looking for “cyber ninjas” to fend off a sophisticated
array of hackers, from criminals stealing credit card numbers to
potential military adversaries. Read the full article. [NY Times]
The FBI is investigating the theft of nearly a half million dollars
from tiny Duanesburg Central School District in upstate New York, after
cyber thieves tried to loot roughly $3.8 million from district online
bank accounts last month. Read the full article. [KrebsonSecurity]
A German security researcher has released an open-source tool that analyses and cleans up Flash code before playback to
prevent security holes in Adobe Flash Player from being exploited.The tool, called “Blitzableiter” (lightning rod), is the brainchild of Felix “FX” Lindner, a well-known hacker who presented it at the 26th Chaos Communication Congress (26C3).
People have one more reason to celebrate the new
year, according to the Shadowserver Foundation: Nearly a million
Conficker-infected computers have oddly disappeared overnight. Read the full article. [Security Focus]
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