Anecdote: I have a medical office customer who had a computer get infected with Malware yesterday. This was a winXP machine, non-admin account locked down via a domain controller, and centrally administered A/V. This computer is locked down so hard they can’t even install a printer without logging in as administrator. The entire network is [...]
“New” Malware Behavior
I haven’t seen this one before – but apparently it’s not really new. Generally it’s possible to sneak in a Ctrl-Alt-Del in order to launch a task manager in order to kill fake antivirus processes and then run cleanup progs. This one has the task manager disabled from the get-go, giving an error saying the [...]
Underground Services Let Virus Writers Check Their Work
By Brian Krebs December 31, 2009 | 2:50 pm | Categories: Hacks and Cracks, Threats I have often recommended file-scanning services like VirusTotal and Jotti, which allow visitors to upload a suspicious file and scan it against dozens of commercial anti-virus tools. If a scan generates any virus alerts or red flags, the report produced [...]
The Ten Habits of Highly Secure Employees
No matter how secure your firewall is, the weakest security link for any organization is the employee…. Take the clean desk test HERE from the same website. A list of 6 mistakes most people make every day, HERE. Awareness The Ten Habits of Highly Secure Employees Ten simple ways for employees to help protect company [...]
How to Prepare for Workplace Violence
From: www.csoonline.com How to Prepare for Workplace Violence While you can’t always predict and prevent workplace violence, you can plan to limit its impact by Scott Berinato, CSO December 01, 2005 Workplace violence is awful, and to deal with that awfulness, we tend to describe it as a random act by an unstable person. Yet, [...]
A Buyers’ Guide to IP Surveillance Cameras
A little dated, but relevant none-the-less From: www.csoonline.com A Buyers’ Guide to IP Surveillance Cameras IP network-based surveillance cameras offer enticing possibilities. But do you want full or partial IP? How much bandwidth? We’ll walk you through the entire process. by Mary Brandel, CSO April 16, 2008 Network cameras for IP-based video surveillance systems have [...]
Malware VM test results
Test one – (testing three systems at a time – need a bigger box to handle more VM’s!) downloading a software crack – I’m focusing on software cracks because the other typical method of infection, Porn, I choose not to spend my time looking at even for such a good cause as this. MSSE – [...]
Malware Experiment – Test Structure
Why do I want to do this test? I get asked which antivirus product is better. I make recommendations. I know that antivirus and antimalware software are not perfect, but I DO know that there are some that are better than others. I know which A/V products I see come in on machines that are [...]
Malware Experiment
After discovering the joy of Sun’s Virtualbox, I am embarking on a test today if time allows. I will create a virtual armada of identical virtual XP boxes and install them with different malware/antivirus programs installed. I then will purposely expose the little buggers to all sorts of internet nastiness and see how well the [...]
