Using several techniques to attack a computer system or network. After all, why adopt just one method when viruses, worms, Trojans and software vulnerabilities used in clever combinations can help to ensure that more systems are compromised and more people are harmed? See virus, worm, Trojan and vulnerability.
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- A Good Year for Security Collaboration
- Guest Editorial by George Stathakopoulos It seems like just yesterday when I was at Black Hat. Now as I get ready to fly to Las Vegas again, I look forward to seeing a lot of security researchers, hearing their latest exploits and how they fared over the...
- Blog posts 2009-07-27
- Microsoft ships fixes for Excel, WordPad malware attacks
- Microsoft's April batch of security patches are out: 8 bulletins with patches for at least 20 documented vulnerabilities. The most serious of the flaws could lead to remote code execution attacks that give a malicious hacker complete ownership of a vulnerable machine. This month's fixes cover several...
- Blog posts 2009-04-14
- Patch Tuesday heads-up: 8 bulletins, 5 critical
- Microsoft plans to ship 8 security bulletins next Tuesday (April 14, 2009) to fix remote code execution and denial of service vulnerabilities affecting Windows, Office and Internet Explorer. According to the company's Patch Tuesday advance notice, five of the bulletins will be rated...
- Blog posts 2009-04-09
- New study details the dynamics of successful phishing
- Can you teach an old employee new phishing protection tricks? In a recently presented study by the Intrepidus Group, the company behind the PhishMe.com spear phishing awareness service allowing companies to ethically attempt to phish their employees on their way to build security awareness, presents some interesting...
- Blog posts 2009-03-10
- Privacy flaw haunts Apple Safari RSS reader
- There's a major privacy problem with the RSS reader built into Apple's Safari browser. According to an alert from Brian Mastenbrook, there is a serious Safari vulnerability that allows a malicious web site to read files on a user's hard drive without user intervention. ...
- Blog posts 2009-01-13
- Using UTM Appliances to Stamp Out Blended Threats
- There's a severe form of malware that may be sneaking past the security defenses. The presenter of this webcast speaks on how to battle blended threats in today's IT environment. The complexity of blended threats, with their multiple attack techniques, requires organizations to adapt a multi-layered security system and a...
- Webcasts 2009-01-01
- Email Security Success
- Email is a popular tool for criminals on the Internet. Whether the attack is simply spam based or a complicated,directed blended threat, the intention is frequently financially. Discover the four main types of email attack and learn how you can secure your email infrastructure ...
- White papers 2008-11-10
- Strength and Simplicity: Integrated Multi-Threat Protection for Mid-Size Business
- Managing security for a mid-size business involves hard choices. With the proliferation of blended threats, spyware, phishing attacks, and pervasive web-based threats, it's no longer sufficient to simply deploy basic desktop security software. Organizations need to defend themselves against a complex barrage of sophisticated internal and external threats that can...
- White papers 2008-11-01
- Where on earth are these Microsoft patches?
- Lost in the shuffle of this month's Patch Tuesday barrage is the fact that a critical vulnerability in the ever-present Windows Media Player WMP was not fixed "because of a last minute quality issue." Microsoft originally listed the WMP update in the advance notice for August but,...
- Blog posts 2008-08-14
- Security is everyone's domain
- Guest editorial by George Stathakopoulos In the first half of 2008, Microsoft Corp. released its latest Security Intelligence Report. One of the most interesting statistics involved the results from Microsoft's Malicious Software Removal Tool MSRT. Each second Tuesday of every month, the tool...
- Blog posts 2008-08-04
- On GIFARs
- Ever since Rob McMillan of IDG published a story giving a preview of our coming Black Hat talk, specifically a preview of the portion of our talk related to GIFARs, media coverage of the research has swirled a bit out of control and there's been some misconceptions. My co-presenter John...
- Blog posts 2008-08-02
- Safari browser flaw: Session fixation attacks possible
- Another day, another unpatched Safari browser vulnerability. According to this flaw warning found on the NVD National Vulnerability Database, Apple's flagship browser is vulnerable to session fixation attacks because of the way it handles cookies in country-specific top-level domains. [ SEE: Microsoft issues Safari-to-IE...
- Blog posts 2008-07-28
- 2008 Pwnie Award nominees announced
- Well, after getting 134 nominations, and spending countless hours pulling out nominees, the judges for the 2008 Pwnie Awards have announced the final nominees to be voted on. From the site: The final list of nominees for the nine Pwnie Award categories is ...
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- Apple hasn't learned from past security mistakes
- * Ryan Naraine is on vacation. Guest editorial by Aviv Raff Apple's Safari for Windows is a nice browser. It really is. It has slick user interface, some pretty cool features, and benchmarks show that it is really fast. But, saying that...
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- Trojan exploiting unpatched Mac OS X vulnerability in the wild
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- Discussion threads 2008-06-24
- Security researcher keeps "Carpet Bomb" attack alive, despite patch
- Security researcher keeps "Carpet Bomb" attack alive, despite patchYesIt def. still works, albeit not in exactly the same way. I can't comment more until Rios has released details.-NateIs the attack really still "alive" ?Re-read BK's blog:"... Safari’s behavior affected more than just IE. In fact, I’ve discovered a way...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-21
- Researcher keeps 'carpet bomb' attack alive, despite patch
- Security research Billy Rios posted an article today about the Apple Safari "Carpet Bomb" attack, discussing a new issue that, despite the patch which prevented a "blended" remote command execution attack when Safari was used in conjunction with IE on a Windows system, keeps the "Carpet Bomb" attack alive and well. ...
- Blog posts 2008-06-21
- Proof of Concept "carpet bombing" exploit released in the wild
- Proof of Concept "carpet bombing" exploit released in the wildLOLThe blog you link is titled:"Design Flaw in Windows Internet Explorer Allows Remote Code Execution From Safari for Windows"Yet, it's a Safari problem. No bias here, folks, move along.Changing download location not good enoughAs has already been publicly discussed, changing the...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-11
- Proof of Concept "carpet bombing" exploit released in the wild
- In what appears to be an attempt to provoke Apple to reconsider its currently passive position on the severity of the dubbed as "carpet bomb" flaw, a working Proof of Concept exploit code has been released at Liu Die Yu's security blog : Nitesh Dhanjani discovered that Safari for...
- Blog posts 2008-06-11
- News to know: Adobe; Apple; Facebook; Microsoft security
- Notable headlines: Zack Whittaker: Students try to bring down Facebook Dancho Danchev: Microsoft's CAPTCHA successfully broken Ryan Naraine: Microsoft issues Safari-to-IE blended threat warning Obama looking for help thwarting Web site hackers Chinese female hacking group spotted ActiveX...
- Blog posts 2008-06-02
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