The Irish Times Reports on IRISS
John Collins from the Irish Times has a piece in today’s paper on the setting up of Ireland’s first national CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team), IRISS.
Microsoft Warn of New Attacks Against MS08-067
Microsoft are again urging PC users to apply the MS08-067 emergency patch issued last October due to an increase in attacks aimed at exploiting that vulnerability. In particular a new worm Worm:Win32/Conficker.A. has been noted as causing a rise in the number of attacks. Once a PC is infected the Worm:Win32/Conficker.A. will patch the […]
Irish E-Commerce Sites Not Secure
A recent survey by Deloitte shows that a significant portion of the 100 websites surveyed did not coply with the PCI DSS Credit Card Payments standard. In addition 2% of the sites did not encrypt cardholder data at all. The report points out that these insecure sites can lead to a greater risk of […]
Incident Response Presentation Available Online
My presentation on improving incident response to the Irish Computer Society‘s Privacy Forum is now online.
Credit Unions Warn About Phishing Emails
The Irish League of Credit Unions has issued a warning alerting people to spoofed emails that are trying to get credit union customers to surrender their personal details. People are advised to ignore the emails. The warning from the ILCU can be found here
EU Proposed Internet Crime Hotline
Apparently the EU is proposing an Internet crime hotline so people can report online crimes to Europol. The Irish Justice Minister, Dermot Ahern, supports the move. While I support any moves to make the lifes of cyber criminals more difficult I do find it frustrating that our own government does not see fit to set […]
Worm Discovered In The Wild Exploiting MS08-067
New worm detected in the wild Gimiv.A exploiting the MS08-067 vulnerability. More details at http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojgimmiva.html?_log_from=rss http://blog.threatexpert.com/2008/10/gimmiva-exploits-zero-day-vulnerability.html No details as to impact yet but Internet Storm Center InfoCON’s status still remains yellow. If Microsoft and others think this is a ig enough deal to warrant an out of cycle patch then it […]
Phishing Is Not Your Phriend
While doing some research for a client I came across an interesting video on Youtube about Phishing. Paul Laudanski the founder of Castlecops discussed Phishing from the methods used to detection and tracking. Well worth having a look.
Microsoft Release Critical Out-Of-Band Patch
Microsoft tonight released a critical patch, MS08-067, outside their normal patch cycle. For Microsoft to release a patch outside of their patch cycle indicates that this is a serious issue that we must pay attention to. I am obviously not the only one who thinks that as the Internet Storm Center‘s Infocon has turned yellow which […]
Safer Internet Day to Stay
News today that the European Parliament have voted in favour of continuing the Safer Internet Day initiative for another five years. Safer Internet Day aims to make children, teenagers and young adults more aware of the dangers they could face when online. BH Consulting have been supporters of Safer Internet Day and I am delighted to […]