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Rootkit to protect Trojans goes live
News However, director of intelligence at VeriSign's iDefense division, Rick Howard, said since 12 December, 5,000 infections have now occurred. A gang that specialises in the theft of banking information through Trojans is... [10 Jan 2008]
Alert over Adobe Acrobat flaw
News An error in the web browser plug-in of Adobe Systems' tool lets cyber crooks co-opt the address of any website that hosts an Adobe PDF file for use in attacks, Symantec and VeriSign iDefense said. For example, an... [04 Jan 2007]
First worm of the year?
News Worm-laden messages are titled "Happy New Year" and contain an attachment called either postcard.exe or postcard.zip, according to experts at VeriSign's iDefense Labs, which provides information on security flaws and... [02 Jan 2007]
Attacks still battering unpatched Windows flaws
News Ken Dunham, director of the rapid response team at VeriSign's iDefense, said: "There is more than one thing going on right now in terms of zero-days. At one point several million domains were redirecting to malicious VML... [28 Sep 2006]
Microsoft slaps quick fix on IE flaw
News Ken Dunham, director of the rapid response team at VeriSign's iDefense, said: "Exploitation has already eclipsed that of the last out-of-cycle patch. Microsoft issued a "critical" security fix for Windows on Tuesday, two... [27 Sep 2006]
Security group issues emergency IE patch
News Ken Dunham, director of the rapid response team at VeriSign's iDefense, said: "Attacks have ramped up significantly in the past 24 hours. A group of security professionals has created a third-party fix for a recently... [25 Sep 2006]
Dodgy porn sites tap IE flaw
News Ken Dunham, director of the rapid response team at VeriSign's iDefense, said in an emailed statement: "Fully patched Internet Explorer browsers are vulnerable. Miscreants are using an unpatched security bug in Internet... [20 Sep 2006]
Trojan nasties raid passwords
News As a result, those one-time PINs and transaction numbers are never logged onto the website and they remain valid, said Ramses Martinez, a director at security company iDefense. Two Trojan horses with distinctive traits... [27 Mar 2006]
Kama Sutra worm: How was it for you?
News Ken Dunham, the director of rapid response at iDefense, said: "The reality is that there could have been hundreds of thousands of computers with overwritten files today. The Kama Sutra worm's anticipated bombshell ended... [06 Feb 2006]
Expect worms in the New Year, say experts
News The next attack is hard-coded in the version of Sober that hit the net on 22 November, iDefense, part of VeriSign, said in a statement on Wednesday. That leaves internet users with less than a month to shore up their... [08 Dec 2005]
More Windows exploits posted online
News Michael Sutton, director at security intelligence company iDefense, a part of VeriSign, agreed. Two new pieces of computer code that could be used in cyber attacks on Windows users were posted on the web on Wednesday and... [02 Dec 2005]
Symantec security hole puts systems at risk
News An attacker could exploit it by sending a malformed request to the interface, security intelligence company iDefense said in an advisory.iDefense reported the flaw to Symantec. A serious security flaw in... [06 Oct 2005]
Hackers claim to have cracked latest Firefox flaw
News Michael Sutton, director of security intelligence company iDefense Labs, said: "I would certainly recommend that users implement the vendor workarounds until a patch is made available. The vulnerability, which could let... [14 Sep 2005]
Bug bounty hunters recruited by security firm
News Security intelligence firm iDefense, which was recently acquired by VeriSign, and the Mozilla Foundation also pay security researchers, or hackers. TippingPoint - part of 3Com - is soliciting hackers to report... [25 Jul 2005]
VeriSign boosts security with iDefense acquisition
News VeriSign has acquired security intelligence specialist iDefense for about $40m in cash - a move intended to boost its security services offerings. Reston, Virginia-based iDefense provides its customers... [14 Jul 2005]
