Snowden documents lead to Regin and malware. http://threatpost.com/researchers-link-regin-to-malware-disclosed-in-recent-snowden-documents/110667 The malware seems to be related to the QWERTY keylogger found in the Snowden documents. The researchers claim a connection with Regin malware platform and the QWERTY keylogger noted in Snowden’s documents. Here is a blog post on the analysis of the QWERTY keylogger to the Regin … Read more
Killer Malware… what does it mean? When is it coming? It means a distributed spam network (hard to blacklist) (as John Stewart from Cisco mentioned http://oversitesentry.com/john-stewart-cisco-security-exec-interviewed-by-bloomberg/ ) A Zero-day malware included in well written (targeted) spam. Like the Flash vulnerability that just came out. https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/01/23/adobe-issues-emergency-fix-for-flash-zero-day/ And then we come to the “Killer” part, Ransomware … Read more
Cisco Chief Security and Trust Officer John Stewart discusses cybersecurity threats on “Bloomberg West.” (Source: Bloomberg) http://www.bloomberg.com/video/will-companies-change-cybersecurity-strategies-k5cirOKjQeaeHPB0upsCFg.html Interesting conversation (only a few minutes): Experience only 25 years so far (Internet Cyber security) Where does the gap need to be closed (the board versus operations communications and understanding) The spam delivery mechanism changed the game last … Read more
Yet another Adobe Flash patch is out: Here is where they are all located: http://helpx.adobe.com/security.html Yesterday 2 patches (fixing vulnerabilities found) were released http://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsa15-01.html “Successful exploitation could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. We are aware of reports that this vulnerability is being actively exploited in the wild via drive-by-download attacks against systems … Read more
the biggest one in my book is Windows 2003 no more patches after the summer. http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/products/windows-server-2003/ From the Microsoft website: Windows Server 2003 support will end: 173 Days: 12 Hours :56 Minutes : 29 Seconds 173 days come faster than you think, so please do the right thing – Philotimo update your servers. Our Youtube video (regarding ΦΙΛΟΤΙΜΟ- Philotimo in case you are … Read more
