The number of malware threats that receive instructions from attackers through DNS is expected to increase, and most companies are not currently scanning for such activity on their networks, security experts said at the RSA Conference 2012 yesterday. There are many channels that attackers use for communicating with their botnets,…
Malware Increasingly Uses DNS as Command and Control Channel to Avoid Detection, Experts Say
The number of malware threats that receive instructions from attackers through DNS is expected to increase, and most companies are not currently scanning for such activity on their networks, security experts said at the RSA Conference 2012 on Tuesday. There are many channels that attackers use for communicating with their…
(1) MEDIUM: Google Chrome Stable Channel Updates
Category: Widely Deployed Software Affected: Google Chrome prior to 18.0.1017.2 View full post on @RISK: The Consensus Security Alert View full post on National Cyber Security
11.42.11 IBM AIX Fibre Channel Driver QLogic Local Denial of Service
CVEs: CVE: CVE-2011-3982 Platform: Aix View full post on @RISK: The Consensus Security Alert View full post on National Cyber Security
Microsoft’s YouTube channel hijacked by previous owner
Microsoft’s official YouTube channel was hijacked on Saturday and all videos hosted on it were temporarily removed. The hacker replaced them with others claiming that Microsoft is holding a contest. “We are sponsoring” and “Make us a Background to Get Subbox!!!” were the titles of two rogue videos published by…