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Cisco Security Agent Helps Westinghouse Thwart Zotob and Other Day Zero Attacks

whitepaper Westinghouse Electric Corporation, part of the Nuclear Utilities Business Group of British Nuclear Fuels (BNFL) is a provider of nuclear plant products and services to utilities around the globe. Westinghouse Electric Company wanted to safeguard...

Tags: desktop systems - pcs

[10 Jan 2008]

Preemptive Security: Changing the Rules

whitepaper In the case of Zotob (a vicious Internet worm), as with earlier catastrophic attacks such as Sasser, Blaster and Slammer, Internet Security Systems (ISS) was the only security organization that had an effective defense fully developed and in place...

Tags: network security, facing, decade, defense

[07 Sep 2006]

Virus writer suspects bagged by police

News He said: "They may have been involved in trying to release bot worms that exploited machines previously infected by Zotob and Rbot to take over compromised computers. The OX90 gang that created Zotob would be natural rivals to M00P.

Tags: m00p, virus writers, trojan horse

[28 Jun 2006]

Managed Security Services: from monitoring to response

whitepaper The efficiency of the crisis response hub has already been proven during the propagation of the Zotob virus (August 2005), when pilot customers could check in real time the benefits of Alcatel's assistance.

Tags: response, hub, france telecom, cert

[20 Apr 2006]

A Case Study on Malware and the 'Zotob Worm'

whitepaper The name 'Malware' describes any computer software that has the intent to perform an action on a host computer without the owners consent. This may be an attempt to infiltrate the security, cause data loss or return information to the author.

Tags: return, host, malware, commercial

[19 Apr 2006]

University of Washington Medicine Thwarts 803,000 Zotob Attacks in Week-Long Attack at World-Renown Medical Center

whitepaper At University of Washington Medicine (UW Medicine), delivering world-class patient care involves more than the expertise of its nearly 1,000 physicians. It also requires a healthy network - one safe from hackers, worms, viruses, and spyware that...

Tags: medicine, exploit, life, hackers

[14 Apr 2006]

Microsoft virus 'bounty hunter' warns of never-ending battle

News Indeed Microsoft's cyber-crime unit has had some notable successes to date, having taken action against 150 spammers, tracked down the Sasser virus author, caught the two people in Morocco alleged to be behind the Zotob virus that hit some major...

Tags: microsoft, zombies

[01 Mar 2006]

Windows exploit code released

News When Microsoft released its patches, experts were quick to warn that the MSDTC flaw could spawn an attack similar to the Zotob worm that wreaked havoc in August. Computer code posted over the weekend can crash vulnerable computers by exploiting a...

Tags: windows flaw, flaw, microsoft windows, security flaw

[29 Nov 2005]

Exploit unleashed for Windows plug-and-play flaw

News Exploit code was published on Friday for a Windows flaw similar to the vulnerability that led to the Zotob worm that wreaked havoc in August. That flaw led to the spread of the Zotob worm, which took down systems across the US, including at...

Tags: flaw, microsoft windows, security flaw

[24 Oct 2005]

Combating W32.Zotob.E and W32.Esbot.A

whitepaper W32.Zotob.E and W32.Esbot.A are new worms that exploit a Microsoft vulnerability (MS05-039) announced last on August 9, 2005. W32.Zotob.E and W32.Esbot.A are both network-based worms that exploit the Microsoft Windows Plug and Play Buffer Overflow...

Tags: exploit, vulnerability, worms, zotob

[13 Oct 2005]

Windows worm holes plugged

News It is very similar to the vulnerability two months ago that resulted in the Zotob worm. Microsoft on Tuesday issued fixes for 14 flaws in Windows, including a security hole that one expert says is ripe for exploitation by a major worm.

Tags: flaws, windows, microsoft

[12 Oct 2005]

Get ready for eight patches, says Microsoft

News One of the flaws was exploited days later by the Zotob worm, which wreaked havoc on Windows 2000 systems worldwide. As part of its monthly patching cycle, Microsoft on Tuesday plans to release eight security alerts for flaws in the Windows...

Tags: flaw, microsoft, security flaw, patch

[07 Oct 2005]

Microsoft pulls this Tuesday's patch

News One of the flaws was exploited days later by the Zotob worm which wreaked havoc on Windows 2000 systems worldwide. This week's "Patch Tuesday" was already going to be quiet, with an update only for Windows.

Tags: patch, microsoft

[12 Sep 2005]

Microsoft finds another "critical" Windows flaw

News One of the flaws was exploited days later by the Zotob worm that wreaked havoc on Windows 2000 systems worldwide. As part of its monthly patching cycle, Microsoft on Tuesday plans to release one security alert for flaws in the Windows operating...

Tags: flaw, windows, microsoft

[09 Sep 2005]

Virus top 10: Holidaymakers cause malware tumble

News The high profile Zotob worm, however, which hit a number of media organisations including the Financial Times and The New York Times, failed to make its mark on the chart despite incorporating elements of the Mytob source code.

Tags: zotob, mytob, virus top 10, malware

[01 Sep 2005]

Zotob author linked to credit card fraud ring

News Turkish authorities have linked one of the suspects in the Zotob worm case to individuals thought to be part of a credit card fraud ring, according to the FBI. Ekici was one of two men arrested last week for allegedly unleashing several computer...

Tags: zotob, virus, fraud, worm

[31 Aug 2005]

Virus arrest: Two caught in Zotob sting

News Law enforcement officials have arrested two men suspected of unleashing a pair of computer worms, including last week's Zotob, which hit servers at American Express and The New York Times among other high-profile victims.

[30 Aug 2005]

Microsoft told to take some virus blame

News Thirty-five per cent of respondents to an informal web survey of customers by security company Sophos said the software maker was ultimately at fault for the recent rash of worms spawned by variants of Zotob.

Tags: sophos, virus, virus writers, microsoft

[19 Aug 2005]

Is latest can of worms a cyber-crime turf war?

News The first worm, dubbed Zotob, appeared on Sunday and appeared to have faded on Monday. However, several Zotob offshoots and another new worm, Bozori, were subsequently unleashed. The recent surge in worms could be part of an underground battle to...

Tags: zotob, turf war, botnet, virus

[18 Aug 2005]

Worm warning hits highest levels

News Users rushing to protect themselves from the Zotob worm are being warned not to take their eyes off other threats as McAfee raises its alert level on the newly discovered IRCbot to the highest alert. The MS05-039 vulnerability has also been leapt...

Tags: ircbot, zotob, virus, worm

[17 Aug 2005]

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