A working group has formed to move towards establishing official language and terminology for describing malware to assist communicating and fighting malware. The working group is trying to establish the Malware Attribute Enumeration and Characterization (MAEC) language. There are a number of benefits to establishing a common malware terminology: eliminating innacuracy in … [Read more...]
Archives for February 2010
Aardvark – A Faster Question/Answer Service
Since not everyone has their own in-house librarian, Aardvark is a service that may be of interest to you. Publicly launched in October 2009, Aardvark didn't take long to get a lot of attention and was just acquired by Google this month. Aardvark, found at vark.com, is a social search engine that doesn't seek to return pages but instead responses from people with knowledge in … [Read more...]
Follow-Up: Firefox Phishing Site Taken Down
I got a lot of positive feedback on my article Is Your Firefox Genuine? Phishing at its Phinest! where I identified a site that had repackaged Mozilla Firefox and wrapped it up in a bunch of malware. The site was getting a decent amount of traffic, I suspect, because it was advertising itself well and was often the top sponsored result for Firefox-related searches on Bing. I … [Read more...]
The Bad Buzz for Google Buzz
There has certainly been plenty of articles making the rounds of tech news sites covering Google Buzz, so I don't feel like I need to cover the topic of what it is and what its purpose is. More interesting to me, however, is the privacy concerns, security issues, and backlash that Google is receiving. After all the hype of Google Wave died down and resulted in a hardly used, … [Read more...]
GPO Deploying Adobe Reader 9.3.1
Adobe is in rapid-fire for releasing updates lately and with the bugs, crashes, and exploits that keep being discovered, they need to be. A few days over a month after version 9.3 patches were released for Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat, 9.3.1 is released to address further concerns From the related Adobe Security Bulletin: A critical vulnerability has been identified in Adobe … [Read more...]