I'm delighted to announce that we have shipped the latest update to Symantec Brightmail Gateway.
The v8.0.3 release is a really important one as we get closer and closer to releasing version 9.0 next year.
This update includes support for VMWare vSphere 4.0 as well as fixing over 75 bugs.
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“If a hacker managed to hack into your blog or website, what could they possibly do? They could insert malicious iframes or JavaScript code into your Web pages. Probably even attempt to steal some data. But most likely they would "search engine optimize" your website. Can this be true?...”
“The first iPhone worm, known as iPhoneOS.Ikee, recently hit the news everywhere. The purpose of this worm was to show that jailbroken iPhones had a flaw that could be easily exploited.
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“Hello and welcome to this month’s blog on the Microsoft patch releases. This is a moderate month—the vendor is releasing six bulletins covering a total of 15 vulnerabilities.
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“One thing I see again and again in this job is that people usually don’t think about security until after they are hit with an incident. Companies create disaster recovery plans after the disaster. They come up with incident response teams after the incident. And consumers get antivirus...”
“On the heels of a similar iPhone attack by a Dutch teenager, an Australian hacker (using the same technique) has written the first iPhone worm for jailbroken iPhones. The worm has been dubbed “Ikee” and uses the default SSH password of jailbroken iPhones to log in and spread. Please note...”
“We are stationed in Germany with the Air Force. Unfortunately, our internet connection is so slow it drops the connection before Symantics update is finished. We have a desktop and a laptop computer. We acquire the updates on the laptop at the...”
“I recently received a case where a customer wanted to test the Symantec Scan Engine functionality where it can forward a threat to a Central Quarantine server.
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“When we analyzed spam data from the past few years, we observed that holiday seasons spirit up malware spam campaigns using e-cards, video player downloads or ActiveX download attacks. We have found that greeting card or e-card spam are the most common. Due to this reason spammers are employing this...”
“Scammers based in Nigeria have long been known for using legitimate email formats for spreading infamously fraudulent 419 messages. We have already monitored e-card services, social networking invites, and various other services provided on social networking sites. Yet another example is a calendar...”
“Posted on behalf of Dan Bleaken, Malware Data Analyst
MessageLabs Intelligence has been tracking a new botnet, ‘Festi’ since the beginning of August.
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“October 2009 saw spam volumes averaging at 87 percent of all email messages, which is consistent with spam volumes observed in August and September 2009, but 10.6% higher than October 2008.
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“The Fragus exploit pack showed up on our radar a few months ago and has been steadily growing to become one of the most prevalent exploit packs being seen in the wild today by Symantec. It is similar to other popular exploit packs available—such as Unique, YES, Eleonore, and Liberty—but...”
“Recently, I've been seeing phishing attacks using Web forms attached to emails making the rounds again. This type of phishing isn't so common but is used on occasion, so I want to take this opportunity to remind everyone not to fall for this trick.
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“Threats targeting the Macintosh platform are much less common than those targeting Windows. The same can be said about video games, where Windows is the dominate platform of the two. Combining games and malware has happened before, but a Mac game performing malicious activities? That’s...”
“Symantec has always recommended that personal information, especially financial information such as Social Security numbers, credit card numbers, and of course your email address must not be revealed anywhere on the Internet. Many security experts also believe that disclosing an IP address to an...”
