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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 attempting to protect its... [10 Jan 2008]
Hacking the Invisible Network: Insecurities in 802.11x
White Paper Tools to identify WLANs, break WEP encryption keys and capture network traffic are freely available. To protect against attacks, understand both the vulnerabilities that exist and how attackers employ these tools to exploit the vulnerabilities. [05 Jul 2007]
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 attacker could find a PDF file on a... [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 exploits. [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 sites, according to iDefense. [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 weeks before its scheduled... [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 discovered Internet Explorer... [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 Explorer to install malicious... [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 have been flagged by security... [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 up fizzling out but experts... [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 defences against Sober, which... [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 Thursday. [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 part of Symantec's antivirus products puts... [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 attackers secretly run... [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 vulnerabilities in exchange for money. [25 Jul 2005]
