Are out of office (OOF) messages a security risk or a useful tool? (Microsoft uses the acronym OOF for Out of Facilitiy. I’ll be using that rather than OoO for out of office). I’ve felt that the anti-OOF forces are the kind of ludite people who still agitate for a return to text only email. …
RockYou was hacked a couple of weeks ago and over 35 million passwords were stolen. RockYou may have your password if you’ve played any of their Social Networking Applications on sites like Facebook or MySpace. Their applications include Slideshow Uploadphoto Photofx Glittertext Funnotes Countdown Superhug Myspace layouts Stickers Superwall Pieces of flair Speedracing Likeness Hugme …
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AVComparatives has posted a review of corporate products at http://www.av-comparatives.org/comparativesreviews/corporate-reviews. This test includes AVIRA, ESET, GDATA, Kaspersky, Sophos, Symantec and Trustport. No mention of McAfee or Trend Micro who I believe would both be in the top three deployed corporate endpoint protection solutions. The report includes a detailed table comparing the available features of the …
Since upgrading from SEP11 MR2 to MR4, my virus alert email to admins no longer works. As a side note, SEP11 has never allowed me to include the path and file name in the virus notifications. They did allow that in SAV10 and earlier. This is a big step back. Before the upgrade, the email …
I really shouldn’t have to wake up at 7:30 am on a Saturday and take the Metro into DC. Fortunately I thought the 10am talk was worth it. Phishing Statistics and Intuitive Enumeration of Hosts and Roles by Sean Palka This talk is about a tool he created/uses in corporate engagements. But as with most …
The next three posts will contain my notes from Shmoocon. This post contains notes from each session I attended on day 1. I’m not trying to necessarily reconstruct the notes into a coherent thought. Hopefully it will be somewhat readable. Opening Remarks by Bruce Potter People are getting owned a lot. Trends Increased success in …
A little housekeeping blog post. I’m moving webhosts this week. My old host is progressively more annoying. A few years ago the owners sold out to a company that operates many web hosting brands. After quite a bit of migration headache, things seem to have stabalized. Nevertheless, my contract is finally up, and I’ve decided …
I rescued an old comment from Akismet (the spam filter I’m using on the blog) because it asked a interesting question. How can Symantec’s acquisition of MessageLabs improve their desktop antivirus. My first reaction to this is that MessageLabs Antivirus can’t be duplicated at the desktop. They use multiple antivirus engines in addition to their …
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My Virus Alert folder is overflowing this morning with alerts. One of the users got Joe-jobbed on a virus/spam run. It looks to be a German language attempt to get people to open a virus by making them think they have an unpaid bill. One of the Subject lines is Abrechnung. Although since i”m seeing …
I was going through my Cox inbox and found Viagra spam with a link to http://doc.google.com/View?id=dfpqm7ft_0tt6xhdd2. Its nothing new that spammers have been taking advantage of Google. Its just kind of annoying to me that this message was sent on October 30th, today is November 10th and the linked Viagra Google doc is still up …