Published: 2005-12-06,
Last Updated: 2005-12-06 01:55:38 UTC by Bojan Zdrnja
Malware authors just opened their own holiday season. We received couple of reports of a new AIM worm spreading.
The worm is simple and doesn't exploit any vulnerability; instead it relies on social engineering.
The user will receive the following AIM message:
"This AIM user has sent you a Greetings Card, to open it visit:
more here
http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?storyid=917
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NEWS - December 6, 2005
By Andy McCue
Special to CNET News.com
Published: December 5, 2005, 5:49 PM PST
The British government has come under fire after it emerged ministers have known for months that criminals were using stolen identities to make fraudulent online tax credit claims worth millions of pounds.
HM Revenue and Customs, the U.K.'s tax authority, was warned about the flaw more than six months ago. However, it only closed the tax credit Web portal down last week after it discovered criminals had used the identities of 1,500 government employees at the Department of Work and Pensions to make fraudulent claims.
The tax credit Web site handles around half-a-million transactions a year. The criminals were able to change claim details and redirect the money into their own bank accounts by getting ahold of a genuine claimant's name, date of birth and National Insurance number, which is the U.K. version of a Social Security number.
more here
http://news.com.com/ID+thieves+try+to+steal+millions+from+U.K.+taxman/2100-7348_3-5983318.html?tag=html.alert
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I found the following site an excellent source for the aimfix. It worked very well on my computer to stop a virus on my away message: www.jayloden.com
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a news thread that is a month old. The news story was informing people of a new AIM virus. We are aware of AIMFix, thanks.
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By Joris Evers, CNET News.com
Published on ZDNet News: December 6, 2005, 4:27 PM PT
The federal government is not making enough progress in protecting critical infrastructures such as communications networks and the Internet, said former members of the commission that investigated the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Progress also is lacking in airline security and providing radio spectrum to first responders, according to the 9/11 Public Discourse Project, which is made up of the 10 individuals--five Republicans and five Democrats--who served on the Sept. 11 commission.
The 9/11 Public Discourse Project on Monday issued a report card with an A- for battling terrorist financing, but all 40 of the other grades (see PDF) were lower.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5984743.html?tag=zdnn.alert
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By John Borland, CNET News.com
Published on ZDNet News: December 6, 2005, 4:58 PM PT
Sony BMG Music Entertainment and the Electronic Frontier Foundation digital rights group jointly announced Tuesday that they had found, and fixed, a new computer security risk associated with some of the record label's CDs.
The danger is associated with copy-protection software included on some Sony discs created by a company called SunnComm Technologies. The vulnerability could allow malicious programmers to gain control of computers that have run the software, which is typically installed automatically when a disc is put in a computer's CD drive.
The issue affects a different set of CDs than the ones involved in the copy-protection gaffe that led Sony to recall 4.7 million CDs last month, and which has triggered several lawsuits against the record label.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5984764.html?tag=zdnn.alert
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By Joris Evers, CNET News.com
Published on ZDNet News: December 6, 2005, 4:56 PM PT
Google has made an adjustment to its desktop search tool to foil attacks that take advantage of an unpatched vulnerability in Microsoft's ubiquitous Internet Explorer Web browser.
The IE bug was disclosed late last week by Matan Gillon, a security researcher in Israel. He found a way to steal information from unwitting Google Desktop users by exploiting the Web browser flaw.
"We did make an adjustment to the product to help protect users," Google representative Sonya Boralv said Tuesday. "We made the adjustment on our end. Users don't need to download a patch or take any action."
more here
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5984794.html?tag=zdnn.alert
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