Mozilla on Tuesday warned users that a password-stealing add-on slipped
into Firefox’s extension gallery more than a month ago had been
downloaded nearly 2,000 times before it was detected. Read the full article. [Computerworld]
Spammers and the botnet operators they’re allied with are continuing to adapt their techniques to evade security technologies, and now are using what amount to disposable domains for their activities. A new report shows that the spammers are buying dozens of domains at a time and moving from one to another as often as several times a day to prevent shutdowns.
Cisco Industrial Ethernet 3000 (IE 3000) Series switches contain well-known,
hard-coded read and write SNMP community strings. An remote attacker
could take full control of a vulnerable device. Read the full statement. [US-CERT]
Thirty-eight defendants from across the United
States have been charged with participating in a multimillion-dollar
black market travel agent ring that used the stolen identities of
thousands of victims to purchase airline tickets for customers. Read the full article. [Dark Reading]
Oracle will release on Tuesday 59 patches to fix security weaknesses
affecting hundreds of products, according to a notice on its website. Read the full article. [Info World]
Unless thousands of companies still using Windows XP SP2 computers
suddenly stop procrastinating, hackers are going to be in seventh heaven come July 13. Read the full article. [The Last Watchdog]
The number of vulnerabilities in the first half of 2010 was close to the
number recorded in the whole of 2009. Read the full article. [The Register]
FBI agents have raided the homes of three alleged members of a hacker
gang that harassed a security expert who helped put the group’s leader
in jail, according to a recently unsealed search warrant affidavit. Read the full article. [Wired]
by Nicolas Brulez
We’ve blogged a few times about rogue AV, explaining how search
engines have been abused using Black Hat Search Engine Optimization
techniques to redirect web surfers to rogue AV websites. Recently, we’ve noticed that the rogue AVs being spread are all
equipped with an “Online Support” button.
Microsoft on Friday said that a weakness in Internet Explorer 8 identified by security researcher Ruben Santamarta recently is not an exploitable vulnerability, but rather a “technique for bypassing ASLR.”
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