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[News] [Rival] New Security Flaws in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008

Microsoft investigates new Windows zero-day flaw

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| Bill Sisk, security response communications manager for Microsoft, said in an 
| email Thursday evening that the flaw allows for privilege escalation from 
| authenticated user to LocalSystem in Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows 
| Vista, and Windows Server 2008.   
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http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid14_gci1310249,00.html

ActiveX module in Microsoft Works opens up security hole

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| A demonstration of a security hole in the Microsoft Works Image Server 
| (WkImgSrv.dll) ActiveX module contained in the Microsoft Works office suite 
| has appeared on the Bugtraq mailing list. The demo appears to only cause a 
| system crash. McAfee, however, has already found fully functional exploits 
| which allow attackers to inject vulnerable systems with malicious code via  
| specially crafted web pages.    
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http://www.heise-online.co.uk/security/ActiveX-module-in-Microsoft-Works-opens-up-security-hole--/news/110563

Microsoft rings alarm on Windows rights bug

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| Microsoft Corp. yesterday issued a security alert to warn users of a bug in 
| most versions of Windows, but didn't promise to fix the flaw or -- if it does 
| patch the problem -- say when a fix would be released.  
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=operating_systems&articleId=9078959&taxonomyId=89&intsrc=kc_top


Recent:

Bots rule in cyberspace

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| USA TODAY REPORTS that on an average day, 40 per cent of the 800 million 
| computers connected to the Internet are bots used to send out spam, viruses 
| and to mine for sensitive personal data.  
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/03/17/bots-rule-cyberspace
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2008-03-16-computer-botnets_N.htm


Botnets Running Rampant

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| How much money is being stolen by cybercriminals? No one knows, and no one 
| even knows how to go about coming up with that number, IronPort's Peterson 
| said.  
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/144489/botnets_running_rampant.html


New Massive Botnet Twice the Size of Storm

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| Damballa predicts that even now that Kraken has been outed, it will continue 
| growing at least in the near-term -- up to at least 600,000 new bots by 
| mid-April. Its bots are prolific, too: The firm has seen single Kraken bots 
| sending out up to 500,000 pieces of spam in a day.   
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http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=150292&WT.svl=news1_1


New Zealand teenager convicted over international cyber crime ring

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| Owen Thor Walker, 18, known by his online name "AKILL," was involved in a 
| network accused of infiltrating 1.3 million computers and skimming millions 
| of dollars from victims' bank accounts.  
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http://news.smh.com.au/new-zealand-teenager-convicted-over-international-cyber-crime-ring/20080301-1vzs.html


Internet has a garbage problem, researcher says

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| Somewhere between 1 percent and 3 percent of all traffic on the Internet is 
| meaningless packets of information, used in distributed denial of service 
| attacks (DDOS) to knock Web sites offline.  
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;1488056707


Spam blights e-mail 15 years on

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| More than 90% of all e-mail is spam, according to anti-spam body Spamhaus.
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| "Spam is a real life arms race," said Mark Sunner, chief analyst at online 
| security firm Message Labs. 
| 
| Billions of spam e-mails are sent each day, blocking mail servers, slowing 
| down networks, infecting people's computers with viruses, helping hijack 
| machines and generally making the internet a painful experience for many.   
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7322615.stm


No April Fools'--Storm worm is back

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| The compromised computer will then install the downloaded file as C:
| \WINDOWS\aromis.exe. Nazario reports that the botnet file opens the firewall 
| using the netsh firewall set command, makes a lot of outbound connections, 
| then listens on a random UDP port.   
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http://www.news.com/8301-10789_3-9906880-57.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20


What spooks Microsoft's chief security advisor

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| Speaking at the Boston SecureWorld conference Wednesday, the 19-year 
| Microsoft veteran whose job includes protecting enterprises, developers and 
| Microsoft itself said there actually is plenty of good news on the security 
| front. For example, his outfit scans a half million devices (with customer 
| permission) per month and in the first half of last year saw the first 
| period-over-period decline in new vulnerabilities disclosed across Microsoft 
| and non-Microsoft software since 2003.      
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| However, 3,400 new vulnerabilities were discovered and “it’s still a big 
| number,” Arsenault says. “So if vulnerability rates are down, where are 
| they?”  
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http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/032608-microsoft-security-concerns.html


Botnet farmers play the international exchange game

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| Selling "installs" is a common practice in the cyber-underworld, the most 
| notable example being in 2005 when Jeanson Ancheta was arrested for building 
| a 400,000-strong botnet and installing adware from 180 solutions for a fee of 
| $60,000.   
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http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/03/19/botnet_spyware_scam/


DSL Reports back up after DDoS attack

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| At least 1,100 bot-infested machines took part in the assault, which at one 
| point directed nearly 48MBps of malicious data at the site. 
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/19/dslreports_under_ddos_attack/

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