Vulnerabilities and exploits

Instead of requesting access to a suspect’s house and confiscating any computers there, a law enforcement agency will be able to remotely access and monitor a suspect’s machine.

‘Patch Tuesday’ looms again: the next scheduled Security Bulletin release is 12th December, so get ready for next week’s patches.

Many sites infected

Kaspersky Lab presents the Top Twenty for November 2006

Kaspersky Lab presents the Online Scanner Top Twenty for November 2006

Kaspersky Lab presents the second part of its report on theft in networks, focusing on organizations

How much to DDoS that website of yours?

Kaspersky Lab presents the latest quarterly report on malware evolution

Yesterday Microsoft published its regular monthly security bulletins. One of them (MS06-066) addresses a vulnerability rated ‘Important’; the others (MS06-067 through MS06-071) fix a series of vulnerabilities rated ‘Critical’.

Microsoft’s advance notification of this month’s patches include one security bulletin for Microsoft XML Core Services, and five security bulletins for Microsoft Windows.

Kaspersky Lab presents the Online Scanner Top Twenty for October 2006

Kaspersky Lab presents the Virus Top Twenty for October 2006

Symposium uses some new terms

Is the number of arrests and convictions falling?

Once again it’s patch Tuesday. Make sure you patch your systems, to maximise their resilience to malicious code.