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]
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]
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]
Dennis Fisher talks with Rich Mogull, Mike Rothman, David Mortman and Adrian Lane about the merger of Securosis and Security Incite, the need for better metrics in security and improving security research.
The American Bankers Association and the FBI are advising small and
midsize businesses that conduct financial transactions over the
Internet to dedicate a separate PC used exclusively for online banking as they ahve become targets of banking malware. Read the full article. [The Last Watchdog]
In a proof of concept, researcher Nir Goldshlager demonstrated cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Google Calendar and Twitter that he said could be used to steal cookies and session IDs. Read the full article. [eWEEK]
MS accepts there is an “inconsistency” in how IIS 6 handles semicolons in
URLs, but it denies that this lends itself to hacking attacks. Read the full article. [The Register]
Notorious hacker Albert Gonzalez pleaded guilty Dec. 29 to conspiracy to hack into the computer networks of Heartland Payment Systems, 7-11 and Hannaford Brothers and faces sentencing between 17 and 25 years on top of his previous guilty plea for the TJX breach and others. Read the full article. [eWEEK]
At the 26th Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin, security researcher Fabian Yamaguchi demonstrated a number
of vulnerabilities that can apparently be found in many average
communication networks and affect all levels from the access layer to
the application layer. Read the full article. [The H Security]
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