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Authenticating Alan Shimel is Certifiably Hard
Emergent Chaos - By: adam, 2008-08-25
The attack on Alan Shimel's Web site and his travails in getting back the site and his domain should be a lesson to all of us.

Diebold/Premier vote dropping
Emergent Chaos - By: adam, 2008-08-24
Many states are using a voting system known to drop votes. Is this for real?

Cisco WebEx Meeting Manager Drive-By Exploit
Symantec Security Response - By: Sean Hittel, 2008-08-23
On August 20, our honeypots began to receive attacks against the Cisco WebEx Meeting Manager vulnerability. The first exploits that we have seen so far have been served via gaming sites that have had the exploit package injected on to them.

Russia/Georgia Conflict News Used to Hide Malicious Code in Spam
Symantec Security Response - By: Kelly Conley, 2008-08-21
In the past few days Symantec has observed virus spam masquerading as news articles regarding the current Georgia-Russia conflict. We felt it was important to blog about this because this particular event is garnering a lot of media attention and holds a very high profile.

Write Keyloggers Professionally!
Emergent Chaos - By: mordaxus, 2008-08-20
An advertisement seeks a programmer to write keylogging software. Payment? From $250 to $750.

Travel the World without Moving - Literally!
Symantec Security Response - By: Hon Lau, 2008-08-19
Back in the 90's, Jamiroquai had a hit album named "Travelling without Moving." The title gives an apt description of some of the fantastic things that you can now do on the Internet. For example, we can now literally travel the world without moving beyond the comfort of the armchair.

The Summer Storm
Symantec Security Response - By: Silas Barnes, 2008-08-18
Seventy-seven megabytes of network traffic, 356 spam emails sent and 10,082 unique IP addresses contacted. All in just under 60 minutes.

Disaster Recovery Drills Aren't Just For IT
Emergent Chaos - By: arthur, 2008-08-18
A forgotten step in business continuity plans: not just plan but practice, practice, practice.

Large-Scale Spam Campaign Continues
Symantec Security Response - By: Silas Barnes, 2008-08-15
As expected, the arrival of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing was accompanied by an increase in Olympics-related spam. From fake news to performance enhancing medication, spammers are taking full advantage of the Games to entice us to click their links and open their attachments.

Security Professionals and Social Networks
Symantec Security Response - By: Kevin Haley, 2008-08-15
Security professional understand the risks of social networks better than anyone. So, given the concerns they may have, do they actually use social networks? Earlier this year we surveyed 87 security administrators in order to find out.