Monday 31 January 2011

Microsoft Security Advisory (2501696): Vulnerability in MHTML

Microsoft Security Advisory (2501696): Vulnerability in MHTML Could Allow Information Disclosure

Thursday 6 January 2011

Global spam e-mail levels suddenly fall

BBC News - Global spam e-mail levels suddenly fall
This may be temporary or an indication that other forms of distribution are being used? Time will tell...

Renault says espionage threatens its 'strategic assets'

BBC News - Renault says espionage threatens its 'strategic assets'

Europol to Reveal Cybercrime Risk Level - PCWorld Business Center

Europol to Reveal Cybercrime Risk Level - PCWorld Business Center
Here is the report abridged:
http://www.europol.europa.eu/publications/Serious_Crime_Overviews/Internet_Facilitated_Organised_Crime_iOCTA.pdf
And the full version:
http://www.europol.europa.eu/publications/European_Organised_Crime_Threat_Assessment_(OCTA)/OCTA2009.pdf

US agency hunts down international cybercrime ring - Security - News

US agency hunts down international cybercrime ring - Security - News

Hold a cellular network to ransom

This is an interesting article about a presentation at the chaos computer club about crashing simple feature phones with malformed payloads in SMS messages. What is interesting is the use of an open source GSM base station. Now how do you know that the base station you are connecting to is actually provided by Orange/vodaphone/whoever. I'm sure the GSM protocol is secure enough to handle rogue base stations :)

Threat level link