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03-09-2010 19:10 March 2010 - Microsoft Patch Tuesday Diary, (Tue, Mar 9th) Overview of theMarch 2010 MicrosoftPatchesand their status. # Affected Contra Indications Known Exploits Microsoft rating ISC rating(*) clients servers MS10-016 >> ISC 03-09-2010 15:20 Vodafone Android Phone: Complete with Mariposa Malware, (Tue, Mar 9th) Panda Security has a post up on one of their employees buying a brand new Android phone from Vodafone and discovering it was spreadingMariposa. It didn't infect the phone proper, but it did have autoexec.inf and autoexec.bat files designed to infect whatever Windows machine the phone was plugged into via USBcable. Unlike the Engergizer story from yesterday, this one is happening now. Standard USB defenses apply, don't automatically execute autoexec.bat/inf files from USB devices. This Microsoft >> ISC 03-09-2010 13:39 Oscars 2010 Awards Users with FAKEAV  It seems that fans around the world are not the only ones who are hooked on the Oscars. Just a day after this year’s Academy Awards, Trend Micro Threat researchers found FAKEAV variants topbilling the search pages. This time around, users searching for news on the Oscars fall prey to the latest blackhat search engine optimization (SEO) attack that uses the search terms “oscar winners 2010 live” >> The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team, or US-CERT for short, has issued a new vulnerability note. However, this particular “vulnerability” concerns a rather unusual product: a USB charger for rechargable batteries. The Energizer DUO is a charger for two AA or AAA batteries that plugs into USB ports. While no software is needed to use the charger, Energizer did provide an application that would display the charge level of the batteries >> Spam about diet or weight loss plans has been around for ages now, mostly spreading through email. However, it has recently made its rounds on Twitter, compromising unknowing accounts and spreading itself via those it has infected. Compromised Twitter accounts post a tweet message that tells their followers to click on the shortened link to try out a new diet/weight loss plan: When users click on the given link, they are redirected to possibly malicious websites that are >> Some time ago (25th, 26th February) AMTSO (Anti-Malware Testing Standard Organization) had its first meeting of this year. This time it was hosted by McAfee and took place in Santa Clara, California. One of the hot topics in this meeting was related to the initiative of reviewing reports; reports published by Testing and Certification Organizations/Companies. How is this process designed? The Review Analysis Board (RAB) of AMTSO >> |
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