This past spring we announced that Phish Report Network (PRN) was officially open for any organization who wanted to have phishing attacks against their brand blocked through the PRN’s community of solution providers, including Yahoo, Netscape, Symantec and others. This was (and still is) completely free of charge to the organization sending the data. We’re now pleased to announce that anyone, from Grandma Jones in Topeka to Uncle Jack in Melbourne, can now submit their fresh phish to the PRN. It’s a piece of cake to do and mostly consists of copying the URL of the fraudulent Web site into a submission form at the following location: https://submit.symantec.com/antifraud/phish.cgi

Once we receive the suspicious URLs, we vet them both programmatically as well as manually to make sure it is indeed a fraudulent...

It has recently been reported thatfunctional exploit code for Broadcom Wireless drivers has been madeavailable to the public. Concerns over the exploit are increasing,because the exploit allows remote code execution, and the susceptibledrivers are shipped with many new computers.

More information can be found at the Month of Kernel Bugs site.

A machine is vulnerable to the exploit if the computer has asusceptible Broadcom Wireless-N network card, and is running thedrivers in question. Unfortunately, due to the nature of wirelessnetworking, all that is required of the attacker is to be within rangeof the vulnerable machine. Because this vulnerability occurs at anextremely low level
within the networking protocol, there may be difficulties in detecting these attacks using standard IDS/IPS methods.

Symantec Security Response recommends that you update the...

A fairly imaginative phishing attack was live on the MySpace.com site for a few hours on the morning of Friday, October 27, 2006. The attack was interesting not so much because of its technical prowess, but because the attackers were so creative. The attack was initially reported by Netcraft who discovered it when one of their customers encountered the page.

The attackers were able to create a login page located at http://www.myspace.com/login_home_index_html, which solicited the visiting user’s MySpace username and password. When entered, these values would go to a server operated out of France.

How did the attackers manage to pull this off? They tossed the wealth of complex phishing techniques aside and did something that was remarkably simple and yet clever. Like millions before them, they just went to MySpace.com and registered an...

Many great things have been touted about Web 2.0, such as that it will bring about a richer, freer, and more community-driven experience for all users. Technologies like wikis and blogs, along with services like Flickr and YouTube are prime examples of how the Web has evolved to bring about increased community participation. What these services really do is bring about freedom of speech to the masses. Unfortunately, the masses also include the “bad”.

Wikipedia has long been a target for mischief makers who abuse the ability for anyone to freely create and edit entries in the encyclopedia. Usually the abuses only involve providing false information in articles on the site. Recently, we received reports that the German version of Wikipedia has been used by malware creators to distribute their creations by modifying a page to point to their malicious programs. According to the reports, a Wikipedia entry regarding W32.Blaster was modified to point at fake...