Monthly Archives: August 2008
Beyond the final frontier
Malware made its way into space! The International Space Station (ISS) has to fight against a trojan on some of the computers. Fortunately, no vital systems are affected; it remains yet unclear though how the malware made its way into … Continue reading
Safety first: Server-outage
Tonight, we encountered an odd problem. Four MD5-sums displayed on our homepage didn’t match the “fingerprint” of the actual files on the servers. As precaution, we took our servers offline to analyse the servers and to see what has happened. … Continue reading
Plenty of Microsoft-Patches
On this August patchday Microsoft released 6 critical patches for Microsoft Office, Windows and Internet Explorer. All of them can be abused by criminals to inject malware into victims’ computers. Please patch ASAP! Source: Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for August … Continue reading
The Return of the Penny-Stock-Spam
We all hoped this is over: After email-spam advertising penny-stocks, improved spam-campaigns using images, then trials to beat OCR detection with noise in and angle changes of the images, and finally closing with PDF-based penny-stock-spam, the gready individuals found a … Continue reading
Free Antivirus Solutions
In a “fake Interview” Symantec’s Stefan Wesche (original article) shot against free antivirus solutions like Aviras AntiVir Personal – FREE Antivirus. Symantec claims that a functionally reduced free version doesn’t offer enough protection, especially compared to products where you have … Continue reading →