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- ChetWisniewski: Why I think it's time to shutdown the DNS Changer servers http://t.co/WRQTzqhmabout 2 hours ago
- gcluley: RT @NakedSecurity Encrypted? Check. Strong passphrase? Check. Mailing them together? Oops. http://t.co/EkjJN7Tzabout 15 hours ago
- ChetWisniewski: Ernst and Young loses 401K information after sending encrypted USB key and encryption keys in same envelope http://t.co/ZlIYyvgR12:54 AM February 04, 2012
Monthly Archives: March 2009
It's Conficker day - so where's the meltdown?
With April 1st already upon us in some timezones, the much feared meltdown of the world's computer systems, has, as expected. Simply not happened! Yes, the new algorithm for polling websites has started as scheduled, but to quote another blog Read more…
What's the best Conficker news headline you've seen?
The hours are ticking down to April 1st - in fact, in some parts of the world it's already April Fool's Day. (Wave to our friends in eastern Australia and New Zealand!) But Conficker works at its own pace, and Read more…
Conficker's impact on Google Search
No, don't worry - I'm not saying that Conficker has some secret payload that interferes with Google. :) Instead I wanted to point out how a hystericane (also known as a hysteria hurricane, or a frenzy generated by a media Read more…
Video: Conficker and April 1st - what's all the fuss about?
Sean Richmond and Duck in our Sydney office recorded a podcast all about Conficker and April Fool's day. For a bit of fun we added some graphics and fairy dust and turned it into a movie. (Enjoy this video? You Read more…
Facebook's hot body dance videos lead to malware
Maybe when you received the email you didn't think it was suspicious, or even if you did maybe you thought it was worth the risk. Subject: Facebook message: Cute Girl Top Model Dancing Message body: News from Facebook - Facebook Read more…
Where do all these Russian brides come from anyway?
Regular readers of the Clu-blog will know that recently I have been receiving a number of invitations from Eastern European women hoping to make friends with me. Natalya and Oksana didn't tell me how old they were, but from their Read more…
MSN weight-loss spamming
Just after my colleague posted a blog about "Skype Me/Spam Me" a few days back, I received a MSN spam message from one of my friends. The message claimed to be a "risk free" weight loss program and contained a Read more…
GhostNet: Who is really behind it?
Today saw the publication of a fascinating research paper by the Information Warfare Monitor project. The paper, entitled "Tracking GhostNet: Investigating a Cyber Espionage Network", investigates claims of alleged Chinese spying against Tibetan organisations including the Tibetan government-in-exile and the Read more…
Conficker's virtual machine detection
The Internet Storm Centre blogged back in February about how the startup code of Conficker would do a quick check, using the SLDT instruction, to see if it was running in a virtual machine. If so, it would Sleep() forever Read more…
Hype, April fool's day, and the Conficker worm
"Millions of computers around the world could go into meltdown on April 1 because of a deadly virus." Those are the words from a report in today's soaraway Sun, a British tabloid newspaper. With that kind of talk in a Read more…
Don't open dhl_n756512.zip
We have been watching a large scale malicious spam campaign posing (once again) as an email from courier firm DHL. Just like last time the messages claim that DHL tried to deliver a parcel from you on the 14th of Read more…
Memories of the Melissa virus
It all started with just one file being uploaded to the internet. An infected Word document was posted to the alt.sex usenet newsgroup on March 26 1999. Most people probably thought a Word .DOC file was harmless, even though simple Read more…
AOL phisher jailed for four years
Earlier this week I blogged about how Thomas Taylor Jr, a member of an ecard identity theft gang that targeted users of AOL, had managed to escape a spell in prison. One of Taylor's co-conspirators, Charlie Blount Jr, wasn't so Read more…
SMS message saying bank details on the internet are malicious
SophosLabs has received a disturbing report from a UK Local Government customer which we feel need a wider audience. People are receiving SMS messages saying that their bank details are on the internet. These text messages are 100% malicious in Read more…
Conficker: Why I can't tell you what it will do on April 1st
There's been a lot of media interest in the last few days regarding what the Conficker worm might do on April Fool's Day. Well, here's the bad news. I'm afraid it's not possible for us to analyse any potential payload Read more…
Inconsistent treatment for hackers?
It is reported that a teenage hacker who made headlines for accessing computers around the world without permission for dishonest purposes, has been given a job by a New Zealand telecoms company. Ninteen year old Owen Thor Walker, from New Read more…
Apple Mac malware: caught on camera
Pob in our analysis labs blogged earlier this week about a new variant of the RSPlug Trojan horse for Mac OS X that he had written protection against. One of the ways in which the OSX/RSPlug-F Mac Trojan horse is Read more…
My love triangle just became a square
As if my life wasn't complicated enough trying to choose between two Russian women, a third has entered the ring. Meet Evgeniya, who has just sent me an email out of the blue. She has carefully chosen me out all Read more…
Help me choose between two Russian women
Meet Natalya and Oksana. They have separately emailed me (brunette Natalya says she is a fan - presumably of the Clu-blog, and blonde Oksana says she is my new friend) attaching photographs of themselves. They haven't really given me any Read more…
Wal-Mart hoax spreading via SMS text messages
Up and down America, mobile phone users are forwarding SMS messages to each other warning that women and children will be killed at a Wal-Mart store. The cellphone messages claim that the killings will be part of a planned 'gang Read more…
