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September 25, 2009 1:51:00 PM CEST

Backdoor.Win32.Clampi.a – This Trojan spy program is designed to steal confidential user data and remotely manage the victim machine. It is a Windows PE EXE file. It is 470 bytes in size. Installation When launched, the Trojan creates the following file: %AppData%\.exe

February 9, 2010 1:23:04 AM CET

Oops… It wasn’t a Trojan – For many years I have taught people that they really need to back up their data. Sometimes malicious software destroys data and a good back up is one defense against that type of attack, but more often data is lost due to many other reasons. In addition to backing up your data you need to [...]

January 16, 2010 4:53:16 AM CET

January Security Bulletin Webcast – Hello again. To close out our January security bulletin release, we have posted the questions and answers from Wednesday’s webcast and embedded the video below. Since we only had one bulletin, the presentation was pretty short and most of the questions were concerning the Adobe Flash Player advisory we released. More listening and viewing options: Windows Media Video (WMV) Windows Media Audio (WMA) iPod Video (MP4) MP3 Audio High Quality WMV (2.5 Mbps) Zune Video (WMV) Please join us next month for our February Security Bulletin Webcast where we will again be presenting detailed information on our bulletins and taking your questions live with the help of a room full of very smart people who work hard to release these updates. Date: Wednesday Feb 10 Time: 11:00 a.m. PST (UTC -8) Registration: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032427679 Thanks! Jerry Bryant *This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights*

January 19, 2010 2:55:00 AM CET

Advisory 979352 Update for Monday January 18 – For today’s update we want to share some insight on the current threat landscape for Security Advisory 979352, some new resources we have published and the current status on producing a security update. As we’ve previously reported, attacks remain targeted to a very limited number of corporations and are only effective against Internet Explorer 6. We have not seen successful attacks on Internet Explorer 8. We continue to recommend customers update to Internet Explorer 8 to benefit from the improved security protection it offers. Additionally at this time, we have not seen any successful attacks against Internet Explorer 7. However, earlier today, we were made aware of reports that researchers have developed Proof-of-Concept (PoC) code that exploits this vulnerability on Internet Explorer 7 on Windows XP and Windows Vista. We are actively investigating, but cannot confirm, these claims. Today we also published a guidance page, including an online video, for home users who may be confused, or concerned, about this security vulnerability and want to know what they should do to protect themselves from the known attacks. This page is located here. More listening and viewing options: Windows Media Video (WMV) Windows Media Audio (WMA) iPod Video (MP4) MP3 Audio High Quality WMV (2.5 Mbps) Zune Video (WMV) Jonathan Ness from our Security Research & Defense team has also provided a video explaining Data Execution Prevention (DEP). While this technology offers a key mitigation against known attacks, how it works is somewhat complicated, so this video is to help people unfamiliar with DEP, better understand it. More listening and viewing options: Windows Media Video (WMV) Windows Media Audio (WMA) iPod Video (MP4) MP3 Audio High Quality WMV (2.5 Mbps) Zune Video (WMV) Customers have been asking us when we will have an update available for this issue and if we will release the update out-of-band. We want to let customers know that we will release this security update as soon as the appropriate amount of testing has been completed. While we cannot yet give a date of when that will be we will keep customers updated. We will continue to monitor the threat landscape, and we will provide daily updates as things develop. Thanks! Jerry Bryant *This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights

January 20, 2010 10:11:21 PM CET

Apple Patches Snow Leopard Security Vulnerabilities – Apple has released its first patches of 2010 and if you are running Snow Leopard I recommend you apply the patches. Apple users have the distinct advantage of Windows users of predominantly being ignored. Despite the fact that playing a malformed audio file can cause arbitrary code execution (which means your Mac is vulnerable to [...]

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