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Microsoft claims success with Vista security
Microsoft has claimed in its fifth Security Intelligence Report that Windows Vista is giving hackers a much harder time.
Using data collected from computers worldwide, the company found that when it comes to browser attacks - the most common type - only six per cent targeted the Vista operating system, compared to 42 per cent with Windows XP.
“We have seen significant improvements in Vista with vulnerabilities,” Bret Arsenault, general manager of the National Security Team at Microsoft, told vnunet.com. “We are seeing very good improvements with the newer software. These results show just how good it is, particularly as the data has been normalised between the two operating systems in light of the installed base.”
New FedEx Delivery trojan confirmed
A new trojan hidden in what looks like a legitimate message from the logistics company FedEx has been detected.
The email informs recipients of a delivery failure and instructs them to download and print out an invoice copy to collect their package. Once opened, the attachment installs a trojan that changes the wallpaper and allows remote hackers to take control of the infected computer.
Javascript to be next core malware language
The demand that the development of web 2.0 has placed on browsers to become more interactive and act as a portal rather than just a viewing platform is opening up new vulnerabilities to unsuspecting users, Itzik Kotler, team leader of the Security Operation Center at Radware, has warned.
As well as developing new signatures and analytics tools for Radware scanning software, Kotler also works on finding new classes of vulnerabilities before they appear in the wild. One such security hole is in Javascript, which would allow a hacker to copy any file from a user’s PC with little chance of detection – something many have considered to be impossible.
Online divorcee jailed after killing virtual hubby
TOKYO – A 43-year-old Japanese woman whose sudden divorce in a virtual game world made her so angry that she killed her online husband’s digital persona has been arrested on suspicion of hacking, police said Thursday.
The woman, who is jailed on suspicion of illegally accessing a computer and manipulating electronic data, used his identification and password to log onto popular interactive game “Maple Story” to carry out the virtual murder in mid-May, a police official in northern Sapporo said on condition of anonymity, citing department policy.
How to catch hackers on your wireless network And how to defend your Wi-Fi from future attacks
There are lots of tools around to help people carry out ARP-related exploits and if a malicious, Wi-Fi enabled neighbour decided to find out more about your network, this could be an effective way to do it.
The good news is that there are some defences out there. The bad? They can be costly and don’t always deliver the protection you might expect.
ARPDefender is a good example. It’s a solid-state security appliance that you simply connect to your network, then leave to look out for ARP poisoning attacks. It would be excellent if not for the fact that it costs almost £300 and, even if it does detect an attack, will do little more than make an entry in your system logs.
Office, Vista getting new service packs
While most of the excitement around Windows and Office is around the next full versions of the products, Microsoft is also working on the next service pack updates for each product.
In a blog posting on Wednesday, Microsoft said that Office 2007 Service Pack 2 will come sometime between February and April of next year. It also listed many of the features in the update, which includes previously announced support for the Open Document Format.
The Windows team, on the other hand, is offering far less detail.
Microsoft patches potential ‘worm hole’
On Thursday, Microsoft issued a rare out-of-cycle patch for a vulnerability in the Windows Server service that handles remote procedure calls (RPC) that allows programmers to run code either locally or remotely. In issuing MS08-067, Microsoft warns “it is possible that this vulnerability could be used in the crafting of a wormable exploit.” Entitled “Vulnerability in Server Service Could Allow Remote Code Execution (958644)” the specific vulnerability has been assigned a National Vulnerability Database designation of CVE-2008-4250.
Microsoft rates this patch as critical for Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, and important for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. It also affects versions of Windows 7 pre-beta in limited release. The patch replaces MS06-040.
Handsets to become crime targets
The risk of spam and viruses that attack mobile devices is set to rise, says a report.
Security experts suggest current risks are small, and that attacks will take the same form as PC spam and scams.
End-user protection like anti-virus software is not yet mature in the mobile market, so the issue is being addressed by the network operators.
Mobile users are urged to employ the same safe behaviours familiar from PCs to reduce risks.
Teen admits to ‘Anonymous’ DDoS attack on Scientology
A New Jersey man has admitted he participated in January’s high-profile cyber attack on the Church of Scientology that took its website offline and caused as much as $70,000 worth of damage.
Dmitriy Guzner, 18, of Verona, New Jersey, helped carry out the crippling distributed denial of service (DDoS) assault because he believed it furthered the goals of the anti-Scientology group “Anonymous,” to which he claimed to belong, according to court documents filed in federal court. He has agreed to plead guilty to a single felony charge of unauthorized impairment of a protected computer.
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