September 2008 - Posts

The Emergence of Crimeware as a Service (CaaS)

Posted by Ryan Sherstobitoff at  30 September 08 09:41     As the malware threat landscape continues to evolve, hackers are constantly changing techniques to counteract detection technologies vendors develop. By using sophisticated methods to evade antivirus technologies, hackers continue to be relentless in

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Category: Cybercrime

So what's all this talk of Clickjacking?

Posted by Ryan Sherstobitoff at  30 September 08 07:30     So there has been a lot of talk recently about this new cross-browser vulnerability known as “Clickjacking”, but what is the potential impact of such a vulnerability to users abroad? Well essentially the exploit allows a hacker to take control

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Category: Vulnerabilities & Exploits

The increase of adware in the third Quarter

Posted by Oscar Cavada at  29 September 08 05:28     Here ...more and more Rogue Antivirus , we promised you some figures where we can see the increase of adware in this Quarter. In this figure you can see the adware has the big increased at the moment. Adware started this year with a 28,58% and now it´s

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Category: Rogueware

Why Companies Should Invest in Cloud Computing

Posted by Ryan Sherstobitoff at  25 September 08 07:46     Recently I have been getting a number of questions concerning the cost savings of a security-as-a-service (SaaS) model versus a traditional on-premise solution. While there are certainly a number of direct benefits to the end-user (easier to use and upgrades

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Category: Malware, Cloud computing, SaaS

Anatomy of a Data Breach

Posted by Ryan Sherstobitoff at  25 September 08 05:53     In 2007 and 2008 the industry has seen an upsurge in data breaches affecting millions of consumers and causing corporations to pay heavily in fines. Data breaches can lead to exposure of consumer information through a number of different ways that vary

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...more and more Rogue Antivirus

Posted by Oscar Cavada at  19 September 08 01:27     As you probably know, in the last months the amount of new fake / rogue antivirus applications has grown a lot. Right now we are finishing the latest quarterly report, and while playing with statistics we've found out that the Adware detected has

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Category: Rogueware

"Constructing" bad things

Posted by Oscar Cavada at  11 September 08 09:03     In June, we talked about an application ( Constructor/Wormer ) whose main function was to turn an executable file into a worm, giving it the capacity to spread itself. Even though its aim was to give a Trojan the spread capability of a worm, it worked

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Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for September 2008

Posted by Oscar Cavada at  10 September 08 10:11     As every second Tuesday of the month, Microsoft has already published the September security bulletins. Below you can see the description of the 4 bulletins rated as critical, as well as the links: More info: Microsoft Security Bulletin MS08-054 More

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Playing Chrome

Posted by Luis Corrons at  05 September 08 10:27     A few days ago Google presented their brand new browser, Google Chrome . As soon as it was released, security researchers from everywhere tried to discover security holes. We've been playing with it as well, and it took us just a few minutes to discover

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