Phishing and Wardriving are coming back around. Please read this article and familiarize yourselves. http://www.informationarmor.com/2010/05/27/the-internet/

Widespread Web Site Attacks Reported Following the reports of high profile web sites like syfy.com and php-nuke.org being compromised, another widespread attack on web servers has been reported. The attacks compromise sites running WordPress and other popular blog software. The attack mechanism is not yet known, but clients should ensure that the latest WordPress version [...]

1. Denial of Service Conditions in Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft SMTP Service (MS10-024 CVE-2010-0024) Microsoft Windows SMTP Service and Microsoft Exchange are vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the improper handling of DNS Mail Exchanger (MX) resource records by the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol component. As SMTP services are often exposed to the [...]

Rules of Social Networking Pay attention to what you post and upload. Social networking is public. Consider images, videos, and information you publish You shouldn’t publish your address, date of birth, etc. Use a nick-name that only your friends know. Choose your friends with care. Do not accept friend requests from people you do not [...]

Holidays are the times when spammers and other anarchist types send malware related emails to everybody. Just because the holidays are now officially over, doesn’t mean your organization is safe. Many employees take vacation and the danger still exists in their mailbox awaiting for them to open. Email administrators may see an increase in infections [...]

A vulnerability was recently reported in Microsoft IIS. Microsoft has since completed its investigation and “found that there is no vulnerability in IIS.” However, “there is an inconsistency in IIS 6 only in how it handles semicolons in URLs. It’s this inconsistency that the claims have focused on, saying this enables an attacker to bypass [...]

Adobe is indicating they have received reports of active exploitation of a 0day vulnerability affecting Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.2 and earlier versions (CVE-2009-4324). We encourage our clients to use caution when opening PDF files. Links to malicious documents can easily be sent through spam or through links on seemingly non-malicious Web sites. We also [...]