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ClamAV taken over by Sourcefire
Snort maker buys into open-source AV. Open-source anti-virus product ClamAV has been acquired by Sourcefire , the US-based company behind leading open-source intrusion detection system Snort . The takeover includes all available copyright and intellectual property relating to the Clam project, although much of the content will have to remain in the public domain, as…
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Storm e-card malware keeps on coming
No end to flood of fake friendly greetings. A further wave of e-cards carrying links to ‘Storm’ malware (various labelled Nuwar, Peacomm, Dorf, Zhelatin) has been hitting inboxes around the world all this week, with no signs of any letup in the deluge. The latest barrage carry a simple message, using spoofed source addresses and…
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Webcam zero-day in Yahoo! Messenger
Video chat invites pose vulnerability danger. A zero-day vulnerability has been reported in the webcam module of Yahoo! Messenger , allowing attackers remote access to systems open to the exploit. Little detail has yet emerged on the nature of flaw, which was first uncovered after a post detailing how to exploit it was spotted on…
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14 flaws fixed in bumper Patch Tuesday
Critical remote execution and hijack holes closed. Microsoft ‘s monthly ‘Patch Tuesday’ security bulletin includes nine separate bulletins this month, covering a total of 14 vulnerabilities in the Windows operating system and other Microsoft software, including three flaws in the Internet Explorer browser and one in the Excel spreadsheet software. Other vulnerabilities marked at the…
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AV testing practices questioned
Professional and amateur tests criticised. Last week, IT industry commentator and renowned anti-anti-virus writer Robin Bloor released a typically inflammatory article implying widespread corruption in anti-virus testing, suggesting that testing organisations within the industry are complicit in rigging test results to show AV products in a good light. This week, results of a supposedly independent…
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House of Lords warns of e-crime fears
Report recommends harder, smarter fight against online dangers. A major report by the Science and Technology Committee of the UK’s House of Lords has found the internet to be rife with crime, with current legislation to control it seriously lacking and public mistrust and fear extremely high. The detailed study, entitled ‘Personal Internet Security’, probes…
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Serious flaws patched in Norton 2006 products
Symantec users warned of vulnerabilities. Users of Symantec ‘s popular Norton AntiVirus and Norton Internet Security products are being urged to ensure they are running the latest versions, after vulnerabilities found in ActiveX controls used by the products were patched to secure possible remote access points. The flaws, discovered by researchers at Secunia and described…
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Worries of Storm forming massive botnet
DDoS danger looms as infection levels boom. Repeated waves of the ‘Storm’ trojan attacks continue to be spammed out, with the latest using more eCards to hook in still more victims. As numbers of infected systems continue to grow, the threat of such a large network of zombies being used for a major DDoS attack…
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57% of spam scam sites hosted in US
Study investigates sites and servers linked to from spam. A detailed investigation into the distribution and usage of webservers to host the various ‘scams’ pushed by spam campaigns has found that the vast majority of such scams use only a single server per scam, with 57.4% of these servers based in the US. The study,…
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