Archive for November, 2006

New Stration/Warezov: vaserjungenfujinas and 869

November 30, 2006 by Jose Nazario

Your email just isn’t safe, is it? And your inbox just isn’t spam free enough for some people, especially as far as Bai Ming or Bai Ming are concerned. Tonight’s Stration uses the domain vaserjungenfujinas.com, and presently the web server they download the malware from resolves to 64.28.179.66. Whois information lines up with previous Stration [...]

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That New Bot: IRC Bot attacking Symantec Overflow

November 28, 2006 by Jose Nazario

Back in May of this year, Symantec released an avisory entitled SYM06-010: Symantec Client Security and Symantec AntiVirus Elevation of Privilege. Those that took the time to read it beyond the title noticed that this isn’t just a local privilege elevation exploit. It’s an out and out remote stack overflow using a specific service (TCP [...]

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Herding sheep

November 27, 2006 by Jeff Nathan

Last week I came across an eWeek article describing a new laptop locator that promises to help companies avoid costly disclosures in the event a laptop is lost. And, let’s face it, a lot of laptops are lost or stolen, including government and military. This new laptop locator offers an obvious twist on an existing [...]

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