http://www.secuobs.com Observatoire de la securite Internet fr webmaster@secuobs.com 2010-04-01 22:08:28 - UnsafeBits : While there are plenty of warnings to users of the popular Twitter service to take care in following links, the dangerous reputation of the social network is somewhat undeserved, finds one researcher In a study of 13 million URLs culled from the public feed of Twitter updates, security researcher Julien Sobrier of Zscaler finds that only http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/208123.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/208123.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-03-12 22:54:36 - UnsafeBits - The Zeus, or Zbot, trojan started spreading as early as 2006, but only recently has the malicious do-it-yourself software run rampant among mortals PCs, according to data released by Microsoft In an analysis posted on Thursday, the software giant found that the growth of Zeus which the company refers to as Zbot began accelerating http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/201242.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/201242.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-03-11 16:26:58 - UnsafeBits - Symantec made the announcement today that SecurityFocus will be essentially be phased out, with only Bugtraq and the vulnerability database accessible through the current site Much of the content will move over to Symantec Connect, a site that acts as a portable between the company and the security community Here is the announcement Beginning March 15, http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/200698.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/200698.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-03-11 02:39:24 - UnsafeBits - Late Tuesday night, more than 90 servers controlling Zeus botnets suddenly disappeared from the Internet The outage came after a group of security professionals worked to de-peer Troyak, a known rogue network hub that provides connectivity to at least six Internet service providers hosting botnet controllers The disappearance of the Zeus command-and-control servers was discovered by http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/200498.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/200498.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-01-19 03:50:25 - UnsafeBits - In mid-December, Google discovered that attackers coming from China had breached its network The attacks were highly sophisticated and targeted, and the attackers stole intellectual property Evidence from a server used as a data drop showed that at least 20 and possibly as many as 33 other companies were attacked In Google s case, http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/182977.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/182977.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-01-15 20:12:27 - UnsafeBits - On June 25, 2009, CYBERsitter CEO Brian Milburn received an e-mail message that appeared to come from his director of sales and marketing The e-mail subject announced, This is the Jinhui Computer Systems Engineering Inc s report about China s Green Dam Youth Escort screening software, and contained a link to a zip file hosted online Opening the http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/182121.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/182121.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-01-15 07:39:16 - UnsafeBits - In response to a reader s suggestion, I ve decided to keep the original post as is and update a new post as new information becomes available If anyone has any information or comments on how better to present this information, feel free to contact me Events In mid-December, Google discovers that its network had been breached by attackers coming from http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/181881.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/181881.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-01-14 18:05:12 - UnsafeBits - In response to a reader s suggestion, I ve decided to keep the original post as is and update a new post as new information becomes available This way I will keep the original as a stake in the virtual ground marking what was known initially, and this organic post will instead change as new information becomes http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/181607.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/181607.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-01-14 00:22:00 - UnsafeBits - So I thought I would try something a bit new I wanted to create a common place for collecting the various details of the attacks against major US firms disclosed on January 12 Most of the information appears to come from Google or iDefense, a security firm owned by VeriSign, so anyone with more information http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/181316.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/181316.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-01-08 23:08:06 - UnsafeBits - Any small business, educational organization or local government needs to be wary these days In the past year, cybercriminals have increasingly targeted these less-than-security-savvy groups with malicious software tailored to facilitate bank fraud In one case, which I documented for an article in Technology Review, online thieves targeted the accountant at a small California firm with http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/179751.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/179751.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-01-06 23:40:53 - UnsafeBits - Determining whether a software patch has to be applied today, next week, or next month is a major headache for information technology managers While many software makers offer some system to rank the severity of security flaws, network administrators are still left to create their best estimate of how long they have before online miscreants http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/178987.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/178987.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-01-06 23:40:53 - UnsafeBits - Last week, federal prosecutors indicted Albert Gonzalez, a man already charged with stealing nearly 100 million credit- and debit-card accounts from retailer TJX, for allegedly working with three other people to hack into another five companies Gonzalez and his cohorts allegedly stole at least an additional 130 million credit- and debit-card accounts In each case, the http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/178986.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/178986.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-01-06 23:40:53 - UnsafeBits - In the search for better, faster antivirus detection, many companies are pursuing a cloud approach to the problem of identifying viruses and other malicious software Yet, while most vendors agree that moving the analysis or intelligence of the product from the user s computer to Internet-connected servers at a company s facility the cloud is the essence of a cloud service, http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/178985.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/178985.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-01-06 23:40:53 - UnsafeBits - Following Immunet s launch in August, rivals antivirus firms quickly raised questions about the company s claims to deliver a cloud antivirus service Immunet s CEO Oliver Friedrichs agreed to answer some questions about the company, its business and the technology it uses to detect of malicious software What is your definition of a cloud antivirus solution A pure cloud antivirus http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/178984.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/178984.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-01-06 23:40:53 - UnsafeBits - On June 22, administrators at Iceland-based CCP Games cut off 6,200 users about 2 percent of its total user base in the science-fiction-themed multiplayer game EVE Online The operation, dubbed Unholy Rage by CCP, targeted accounts used to build up experience or obtain goods that could then be sold for real money, a practice known as gold farming http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/178983.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/178983.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-01-06 23:40:53 - UnsafeBits - Severe security bugs are getting harder to find, especially is gigantic pieces of software such as the Windows operating systems Microsoft has spent millions attempting to defeat bugs, and arguably leads developers in secure software programming practices by vetting new code with automated analysis programs and by retraining all its developers in secure coding practices Yet, http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/178982.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/178982.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-01-06 23:40:53 - UnsafeBits - Happy New Year, all As a freelance journalist covering the world of computer security, I have focused increasingly on finding the unreported stories I regularly write for MIT s Technology Review, CIOcom and SecurityFocus Many times, my research and reporting does not find a home I ve created UnsafeBits to become the home for these stories I plan to http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/178981.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/178981.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-01-06 23:40:53 - UnsafeBits - Attackers don t always get it right Many times, their attempts to exploit a program or a computer system go awry The result A crash So, when Bojan Zdrnja, a Croatia-based handler for SANS Internet Storm Center, looked at a PDF document submitted to the volunteer group of security experts, he didn t think it odd that it http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/178980.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/178980.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-01-06 23:40:53 - UnsafeBits - For the entry-level cybercriminal, the Zeus do-it-yourself botnet creation kit has become the go-to program for getting a modest botnet up and running An entire business ecosystem has evolved to serve the needs of would-be cybercriminals Their draw to Zeus Ease of use, a competitive marketplace, and lots of customization The result is that cybercriminal networks http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/178979.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/178979.shtml