US power grid is highly vulnerable and under constant attack, Iran attacking energy companies, increase in sophisticated attacks against keys and certificates, Indian government site redirects to black hole exploit kit, FSB report find that only 36% of small businesses regularly patch, 5 quick wins from the DBIR, Google to give software vendors 7 days prior to releasing information on active exploits, and planning for the failure of malware prevention.
I am here on vacation in Disney World, using wifi in the hotel and I’m being blocked.
Disney appears to be using an old (I mean old) web filter called the 8e6 R3000 from 8e6 Technologies, now Trustwave. Interestingly, when I check this site’s category using Trustwave’s site here and it is not registered. The site is correctly categorized as “IT” in the other filtering engines.
So, it would seem that Disney World is keying off some element of content on the site, rather than on the Skye’s categorization.
Adobe and Microsoft patches, signed Mac malware, EC Council website hacked, 7 steps to secure Java, Microsoft on invulnerable software, more on OpUSA, Ohio city’s taxpayer database stolen and the importance of malware being invisible.
Adobe warns customers of a Cold Fusion 0day, Washing courts owned by that 0day, web servers found compromised with the Cdorked/Darkleech, critical vulnerability in Nginx, Anonymous’ opUSA turned out to be a bunch of nothing, too many admins is bad for security, Name.com gets compromised, The Onion’s twitter feed is compromise by the SEA, slippery slope of BYOD and Google’s plans for authentication.
This week: Twitter warns news agencies of attacks and to use dedicated PCs for using twitter, the US department of Labor website was compromised and serving up an 0day for IE8, 18 12-13 year olds in Alaska socially engineered passwords for 300 computers out of their teachers, iOS did NOT have a malicious app discovered, AV vendors are starting to shun Windows XP, 7 elements of a successful security awareness program, and the unforeseen impacts of cyberwar.
In this episode, another Java 0day, Symantec’s Q1 2013 0day roundup, the Akamai State of the Internet report, the Verizon 2013 DBIR, AP’s twitter feed hack, and cyber terrorists.
This week: Twitter account hacks highlight opportunity for exploitation by attackers, Microsoft and Malwarebytes both release bad patches, Oracle releases a Java patch which fixes 42 security bugs, Oracle announces that Java 8 is delayed due to the focus on Java 7, a new botnet is being created by compromising WordPress installations for some unknown purpose, Linode was compromised in an attack targeted at some Linode customers, Microsoft finds a trojan that cleans up after itself in the next wave of anti-forensics, the Boston marathon bombing and West, Texas explosions see many phishing scams leading to malware installations, spam is down, targeted attacks via email are up, Microsoft released it’s second half 2012 Security Intelligence Report with some odd mixes of data, Microsoft releases EMET 4.0 beta, and a former employee has been charged with planting back doors on 2723 Hostgator servers.
I’ll be picking someone to give an e-copy of @Taosecurity’s new book “The Practice of Network Security” who sends me an email with feedback on the show.
Encrypt your drives, eve. If you don’t think the computer will leave the office: http://feedly.com/k/ZM172z
Spate of MS and Adobe patches fix numerous remote code execution and priv escalation bugs
SEC filings seem to disagree with the growing furor over cyber attacks: http://feedly.com/k/ZM1IRB
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