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June 30, 2009 17:40

DojoSec Adobe bug fixed

Well I've been busy, AFA 2009 CyberSpace Symposium, tracking down cool crashes, booking DefCon travel, and my job (herding cats at Sourcefire World Domination HQ). But better late than never right? June 9th, Adobe released http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/aps

June 30, 2009 11:41

DoJoSec meeting - July 2nd

Not happening. Some Federal holiday getting in the way of this month's meeting. Firework day or similar apparently. Next one will be the first Thursday in August, right after DefCon. We'll see you there, assuming we make it back from Vegas in time. Check http://dojosec.c

June 25, 2009 17:01

Fun with Shell Scripts and OS X

Recently, more malware targeting OS X has been released. This is exciting stuff, and one such sample is RSPlug. The overall premise of RSPlug's operation isn't very sexy, as in the end it's just a malicious script that an unsuspecting user is tricked into running on t

June 22, 2009 16:50

Rule release for today - June 22nd 2009

We've been busy making things faster. This release has some modifications to rules to improve performance. Details are available here: http://www.snort.org/vrt/advisories/2009/06/22/vrt-rules-2009-06-22.html

June 16, 2009 17:17

Rule release for today - June 16th 2009

A maintenance release this one, few new rules, performance improvements, etc.. Details are available here: http://www.snort.org/vrt/advisories/2009/06/16/vrt-rules-2009-06-16.html/

June 12, 2009 22:30

Rule release for today - June 12th 2009

Adobe Acrobat and Reader Remote Vulnerability (CVE-2009-1859): Adobe Acrobat and Acrobat Reader contain programming errors that may allow a remote attacker to execute code on a vulnerable system. The errors occur in the processing of embedded image files in a PDF document. A rul

June 9, 2009 16:25

Microsoft Tuesday Coverage for June

Wow, lots of stuff in today's release from Microsoft. Here are the highlights: Microsoft Security Advisory MS09-018: The Microsoft Windows LDAP implementation contains programming errors that may allow a remote attacker to execute code on an affected system. Rules to detect

June 5, 2009 11:41

ClamAV DoJoSec Talk Addendum

Just a quick note to clarify something I said yesterday at DoJoSec. During my talk, I mentioned that ClamAV is supports a variety of operating systems, including Linux, Solaris, BSD, OS X, etc. Packages are made available by third-parties for some of those. However, you can build

June 5, 2009 11:04

DoJoSec roundup

Last nights DoJoSec meeting was most excellent. We were treated to talks from: * Alain Zidouemba - What to do with the Unknown * Richard Goldberg- How not to get pwnd by your clients * Joe Klein - IPv6 security issues * Eoghan Casey - Getting Physical with Mobi