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2/13/10
Microsoft has removed one group of patches it released as part of this week's Patch Tuesday -- MS10-015 (KB977165) -- from its Windows Update service until it can investigate reports by some users that it is causing blue screen of death problems with both XP and Vista PC's.
Early reports point to an interaction between this patch and the atapi.sys file previously damaged by malware.
2/15/10
A new partnership between Toshiba and Tokyo's Keio University has led to the creation of a new technology that could allow SSDs up to 1TB in size to be made 'with a footprint no larger than a postage stamp.' The report states that the two have been able to integrate 128GB NAND Flash chips and a single controller into a stamp-sized form factor. They've even made it operational with a transfer rates of 2Gbps (or about 250MB/sec) with data transfer that relies on radio communication
According to a recent report, 2009 saw a tremendous increase in the volume of malicious spam, with the number of spam messages sent per day jumping from a little over 600 million to over three billion. For the last several quarters, spam has been accounting for 90 percent or more of all email messages sent. However the volume of spam has been more or less steady for the last few of years. Today, the establishment of large-scale botnets, including Zeus and Koobface, has led to an enormous spike in the volume of spam. Botnets are responsible for sending over 150 million unsolicited emails a day.
2/16/10
A new malicious email campaign has emerged, posing as a new settings file for the users email account. Attached to each email is a Trojan horse file, Troj/Bredo-BE.
The messages are meant to lure the recipient into opening the infected attachment by making the email as real-looking as possible, but multiple gramatical errors and unusual constructions make the emails stand out easily.
The recipient's email address is included in the subject line and they are "crafted" to look as if they came from the recipient's email tech support.
A typical malicious email reads as follows (assume johnsmith is using mailserver.com)
Subject: A new settings file for the johnsmith@emailserver.com has just be released
Attached file: settings.zip
Message body:
Dear use of the mailserver.com mailing service!
We are informing you that because of the security upgrade of the mailing service your mailbox johnsmith@emailserver.com settings were changed. In order to apply the new set of settings open zip attached file.
Best regards, mailserver.com Technical Support.
2/22/10
There is a recently discovered BotNet that infects routers and DSL modems instead of PC's, which makes it very unusual malware. The system has been named "The Chuck Norris Botnet" and enables installing itself on a router or DLS modem by guessing the default admin password of poorly configured hardware.
2/23/10
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