US Army Publishes Report On Terrorist & Vegetarian Use of Twitter

Received this from a twitter friend. The full report is downloadable from the website. Aside from the vegetarians using Twitter, this is a very interesting report if you read between the other lines. Enough said?

Feuding India, Pakistani Hackers Deface Web Sites

No longer confined to conventional battle tactics, this Yahoo/PC World article illustrates how conflicts are being fought on the digital front too. Our world has definitely changed.

Richard Branson: Business Stripped Bare

Richard Branson’s (of Virgin fame & fortune) video blog. Interesting. Not to Sir Branson - very provocative title too I might add!)

Botnet Saga Continues

I guess I spoke way too soon! I was at my yahoo mail today, opened an e-mail and boom! Got the pop-up again! Sigh.

And, as many readers have commented and pointed out to me personally, many inconsistencies:

• Some PCs have never exhibited the pop-ups even though they did not update their flash player.
• Some PCs have stopped receiving the pop-ups even though they did not update their flash player.
• Some PCs are still receiving the pop-ups even though they did update their flash player.

So now, we wait for Anthony’s analysis of the flash files.

In the meantime, I have to do my annual re-caulk of the shower tiles today! I can tell you, I’d rather be doing forensics! A woman’s work is never done! Especially when she’s the “handyman” in the house purchase partnership! (Now you know why my daughters and I received the nicknames “Macho Mahler!”)

Have a great weekend!

And stay tuned for the update about the RUBotted situation as it unfolds!

Debbie

My Stress Free Thanksgiving Solution!

May your Thanksgiving be stress free also!

Last night I updated my Flash files and I was still getting notices as per my added notice on the post: A Possible Answer to the RUBotted Pop-ups?

However, this morning - upon boot - I’ve yet to receive one.  I also went directly to the main file disclosed in the previous post that was serving up the ad and I did not receive the pop-up.

At this point, I can only conclude that the flash was the vulnerability and it is NOT a glitch or bug in RUBotted.

Anthony Valente, my partner from Network Defense Solutions is working with the Flash file I sent him this morning to find out what it was in the file that might have been doing this. Only by understanding how the malware providers are pushing this crap on us, can we understand how to protect ourselves.

Stay tuned for more disturbing news about the ad servers from hell! You are not going to be happy when you hear what Anthony has uncovered through my initial research with the Antivirus 2009!

In the meantime, go update your flash players PLEASE!