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January 15, 2008

Tuesday, January 15, 2008 11:14 AM/EST

Sunbelt + Dell = Ninja Blade

New appliances are designed for Exchange e-mail security.

August 25, 2007

Saturday, August 25, 2007 2:13 PM/EST

Sendmail Users Update ClamAV NOW!

A most serious, easily exploitable vulnerability in ClamAV versions prior to 0.91.2, recently released, could allow an attacker to compromise a system by sending an e-mail to it. The issue is in clamav-milter, the sendmail plug-in for the anti-virus, which...

August 24, 2007

Friday, August 24, 2007 1:57 PM/EST

You Can't Tell the Malware Kits Without A Scorecard!

You've undoubtedly heard about malware "kits" that people use to make the actual malicious software that we download and install after confusing it with an e-card or free pornography. Here's a blog that specializes in monitoring these kits. There's dangerous...

August 3, 2007

Friday, August 03, 2007 7:54 AM/EST

More on Driver Certificate Revocation

For more from Microsoft on when/how driver certificate revocation works, see the comment section on the blog on the Atsiv revocation. Sounds like the current architecture only allows for boot-time checks, and they're just speculating that checks with VeriSign could...

August 2, 2007

Thursday, August 02, 2007 10:17 PM/EST

Microsoft Hits Back at Atsiv

My current column describes Atsiv, a tool for loading unsigned kernel code in Windows Vista x64. Perhaps I was the one who alerted Microsoft, but it responded tonight pretty strongly. As described by Scott Field, Windows Security Architect, in the...

Thursday, August 02, 2007 3:12 PM/EST

Orphaned Symantec Root Certificates

For my recent column on code signing I took a close look at the Trusted Root Certificates dialog on one of my Vista systems and noticed something odd. The selected certificate is one of two Symantec certificates. Three things are...

July 20, 2007

Friday, July 20, 2007 10:49 PM/EST

Slimy Worm Claims

I'm one of many who have written about the claims of an Mac OS X worm that gains root access. But all things considered, including some of the reaction, there never was any solid evidence that there was anything behind...

July 5, 2007

Thursday, July 05, 2007 12:05 PM/EST

Code Insertion Through ARP Spoofing

Once you've got control of a system inside a network, it's amazing what you can do with it. Neil Carpenter of Microsoft's Security Incident Response team recently ran into an example of a particularly powerful and scary attack using ARP...

Thursday, July 05, 2007 11:38 AM/EST

Adware Lives On

Are the reports of adware's demise greatly overstated? Ben Edelman thinks so. Edelman is an assistant professor at Harvard Business School. For years, while he studied for his J.D. from Harvard Law and his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard, he...

June 18, 2007

Monday, June 18, 2007 8:43 PM/EST

The Anti-phishing API War

I saw it coming back when all the phishing URL databases were being built: Not only were all the databases going to compete, but there would be different access methods. We saw another stupid battle in that war today with...



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