Archive for February, 2010

A massive earthquake struck near the Chilean city of Concepcion in the early hours of the morning of February 27th, 2010.

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Massive Earthquake in Chile Leads to a Surge of Rogue Antivirus

In February, Russia celebrates one of the most important “man” holidays of the whole year: “The Day of the Defender of the Motherland.” On this day, all Russian men and boys are congratulated.

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From Russia With Love: День защитника Отечества Spam

It’s been ten years already; can you believe it? I’m talking about the U.S.

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The U.S. Census 2010: Don’t be Counted as a Victim of Online Fraud

Ten of Application Security industry’s coolest, most interesting, important, and entertaining links from the past week — in no particular order. Hitler and Cloud Computing Security Microsoft SDL Core Training Classes & Tools A Big Case of …OOPS… Customer-Induced FUD NT OBJECTives Response to the Larry Suto Report Web Security Dojo v1.0 & Watcher 1.3.0 release Online finance flaw: Ameriprise III Banks, Businesses, Viruses and the UCC Breaking Weak CAPTCHA in 26 Lines of Code Finding Input Validations flaws with Taint Checking WhiteHat Security is a leading provider of website security services.

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Best of Application Security (Friday, Feb. 26)

Imagine that you’re sitting at home catching up on your email backlog. In comes an email from your ISP, FooBarBazCo (some creativity required here, I know). The email seems to be from Technical Support

How many social network accounts do you have? How much time do you spend on your network content and application updates?

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Daily Homework – Log in to Your Social Network Account

The creators of the SymbOS.Exy family of threats are at it again. They have resurfaced with yet another signed Symbian threat: SymbOS.Exy.E .

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A Touch of Mobile Threat Déjà Vu

Microsoft took a stab at Waledac bots last April when they added detection to their Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT). The MSRT is part of their monthly Microsoft Updates package

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R.I.P. Waledac?

More than 60 websites have been found to be hotbeds for SEO poisoning. Each of these domains host hundreds of possible matches for search keys. Also, the topics in one domain overlap with that of the other domain, thus making it possible that they will both emerge in the search results

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60+ Compromised Sites with SEO Poisoning

SC Magazine (US) is hosting security blog awards next week at RSA Conference 2010 and our own Mikko Hypponen is among the nominees in the Five to Follow on Twitter category. Mikko decided to take a look at ” this Twitter thingy ” last year and has now posted over 900 tweets with more than 5,600 followers. Here’s an example of the type of thing you might find from his feed

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SC Magazine’s Five to Follow