Archive for the ‘Robert Vamosi’ Category

Microsoft to have 1 Critical and 2 Important patches for March

In its advance notification, Microsoft today said that it intends to issue three security bulletins on Patch Tuesday, March 10, 2009.
The most serious of vulnerability is within Windows and could lead to remote code execution if exploited. This patch will be given Microsoft’s most severe rating of Critical.
Two other patches expected on Tuesday also [...]

March 5, 2009   Posted in: Defense in Depth, Robert Vamosi, vulnerability  No Comments

I’m flattered, but …fake ZDNet review leads to malware

Malware writers have been using bogus antivirus products to infect computers–such rogue programs are not new. But Lawrence Abrams, owner of BleepingComputer.com notified me this morning that one new rogue is posting a fake review written by one “Robert Vamosi.”
This particular rogue is called Anti-Virus-1, and it takes over a computer’s HOSTS file so that [...]

February 19, 2009  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: Bleepingcomputer.com, Defense in Depth, Lawrence Abrams, Robert Vamosi, rogue antivirus program  No Comments

Coordinated ATM attack nets $9 million

Up to 130 ATM machines in 49 cities worldwide were used in a coordinated attack on RBS Worldpay, a global payments services company. Within a 30 minute period on November 8th, 2008, the company lost an estimated $9 million dollars due to fraudulent ATM transactions.
While the company first disclosed the loss in November, the ambitious [...]

February 4, 2009  Tags: , , , , , , ,   Posted in: ATM machines, Defense in Depth, RBS Worldpay, Robert Vamosi, cybercrime, data loss  Comments Closed

iWork 2009 Trojan building a botnet

This week security researchers reported that pirated copies of iWork 2009 may contain a Trojan horse. Experts note that with Mac OS X threats, you have to be fooled into installing them. In this case, the chance to own iWork 2009 on the cheap is the potential draw. Most antivirus programs for the Mac are [...]

January 23, 2009  Tags: , , , , , ,   Posted in: DDoS, Defense in Depth, Jose Nazario, Mac OS X, P2P, Robert Vamosi, Trojan horse, botnets, conficker, denial of service, downadup, iWork  Comments Closed

Apple issues 8 critical QuickTime security updates

Today Apple issued a security update for QuickTime 7.6. The update addresses flaws in both the Mac OS X and Windows XP and Vista implementations of the media viewer.
Specifically, the update fixes flaws CVE-2009-0001 through CVE-2009-0007.
The eight vulnerabilities within QuickTime can all be exploited to cause an unexpected application termination (denial of service) or [...]

January 21, 2009  Tags: , , , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Apple, CVE, Defense in Depth, Mac OS X, QuckTime, Robert Vamosi, Windows, arbitrary code execution, denial of service, security update, vulnerability  Comments Closed

Heartland data breach could be the largest in US history

Details are emerging on what could well become that largest data breach in US History.
Heartland, a company that processes payments for more than 250,000 businesses, is saying today that up to one million customers may have had their credit information stolen, a number easily eclipsing the 47 million customers potentially at risk of credit fraud [...]

January 20, 2009  Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Defense in Depth, Heartland, MasterCard, Robert Baldwin, Robert Vamosi, TJX, US Secret Service, Visa, carders, cybercrmie, data breach, forensics, hackers, identity theft, indentity fraud  Comments Closed

Is the Downadup/Conficker worm building a new botnet?

There’s a new Internet worm spreading that may be comparable to Melissa, Sasser, and Blaster in terms of the number of machines infected.
The worm, Downadup (also known as Win32.Conficker.B or simply “Conficker”), exploits a specially crafted RPC request vulnerability found in unpatched versions of the Windows Server service. Microsoft issued a rare out-of-cycle patch, MS08-67, [...]

January 19, 2009   Posted in: MS08-067, Patch Tuesday, Robert Vamosi, botnet, conficker, downadup, firewall, malicious server, microsoft, worm  No Comments

Microsoft SMB patch addresses 3 flaws

Today Microsoft issued a patch that resolves several privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Server Message Block (SMB) Protocol, a protocol used for sharing files, printers, serial ports, and other communications.
MS09-001 is rated by Microsoft as critical, its highest rating, for users running Windows 2000, XP, and Server 2003, and moderate, its second highest [...]

January 13, 2009   Posted in: Defense in Depth, Patch Tuesday, Robert Vamosi, microsoft, remote code execution, security  No Comments

HBGary announces FastDump Pro for physical memory investigations

HBGary, a computer security firm in Scramento, California, today announced FastDump Pro, the first memory acquisition software to offer 32- and 64-bit support for all supported versions of Windows with more than 4 gigabytes of RAM. FastDump Pro allows organizations and investigators to preserve and analyze physical memory snapshots of 32- and 64-bit editions [...]

January 13, 2009   Posted in: Greg Hoglund, HBGary, Robert Vamosi, cybercrime, forensics, investigations, physical memory, security  No Comments

Trend Micro and Cisco to monitor all the network aware gadgets in your home

Trend Micro and Cisco today announced a partnership service that offers a way to protect all Internet connected gadgets at home. Called the Home Network Defender, the service uses Linksys routers to monitor the security any IP-enabled device connected to the home network.
Already there have been viruses reported in digital picture frames and if these [...]

January 13, 2009   Posted in: Apple TV, Cisco, Ninetendo WII, Robert Vamosi, Trend Micro, Web threats, home network  No Comments