Are you ready for next Tuesday's Microsoft Patch Day? It's coming. Based on their Advanced Notification page, Microsoft plans to release seven security bulletins at 11am on June 13, and they rate three of the bulletins as Critical. The updates will fix around 28 vulnerabilities in popular products like Windows, Internet Explorer, Office, the .NET Framework, as well as flaws in … [Read more...]
Archives for June 2012
LinkedIn Passwords Leaked; Change Your Password
According to many reports, Russian attackers have somehow gotten their hands on 6.5 million hashed LinkedIn passwords. They have posted the hashed passwords to a Russian hacking web site, asking the hacking community to help them crack the hashes. With the increases in computing power and cracking technology, I suspect it's only a matter of time until they have actual … [Read more...]
Microsoft Revokes Certificate Due to Flame Malware
Last week, I wrote about a sophisticated new piece of malware called Flame, which infected various organizations in the Middle East. At the time, Antivirus vendors had just begun dissecting this advanced new worm, and expected to unveil even more interesting details about it as time went on. It looks like they won't disappoint. Today, two interesting new details have surfaced … [Read more...]
WatchGuard Security Week in Review: Episode 20
Flame APT, iOS Security, and Cisco IOS XR Update This week's security summary video comes from Cascais Portugal, where I'm attending a WatchGuard partner conference, which is also why I'm posting the episode a little late. The biggest story of the week has to do with a new APT-class attack called Flame, which affects targeted Middle Eastern organizations. However, the episode … [Read more...]