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Facebook friends that you don’t need

01

Sep

2011

Commtouch labs has picked up a wave of phony Facebook friend request emails. Strangely, these all feature random Middle-Eastern/Asian names (not linked to actual Facebook accounts). Note that these requests arrive via email – not Facebook. Following any of the links leads to a malware download reported to be a variant of zbot. Zbot contacts […]

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Apache 2.2.20 released to fix DoS vulnerability

31

Aug

2011

This afternoon the Apache Foundation released an awaited fix to the denial of service (DoS) vulnerability reported a few days ago. The fixes in version 2.2.20 of the Apache httpd server reduce the amount of memory that is used by range requests. If the total bytes of a file requested exceed the total file size, […]

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Morto: RDP worm of death?

30

Aug

2011

Over the last few days we have seen some media buzz about a worm called Morto. Morto is an old-fashioned internet worm, which targets Windows workstations and servers by exploiting poorly-chosen weak passwords to spread via Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) connections (port 3389). It’s possible if you had a large number of infected computers within […]

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