Microsoft attack on PDA

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Web attack stopped, says Microsoft

Web attack stopped, says Microsoft 06/28/2004 10:07 AM
A Russian website which spread malicious code to Internet Explorer users over the weekend has been shut down, Microsoft said today. Hackers manually attacked websites running on unpatched Microsoft IIS servers, injecting them with malicious JavaScript code. Visitors to the compromised websites were then redirected to the Russian website, which attempted to download a backdoor keylogging program called Download.Ject onto the user's PC.

Microsoft cops standards attack

Microsoft cops standards attack 04/18/2005 11:49 PM
Builder AU Apr 19 2005 4:13AM GMT

Microsoft launching new PR attack on
Linux

Microsoft launching new PR attack on
Linux 01/06/2004 02:29 PM
The campaign claims to bring "leading companies and third-party analysts" to bear on the truth about Linux versus Windows, a move which will no down generate a whole new round of FUD accusations, fights, and general geekery.

Does Microsoft Show Hackers How To
Attack?

Does Microsoft Show Hackers How To
Attack? 07/19/2004 04:32 PM
WebProNews Jul 19 2004 8:12PM GMT

MyDoom plans attack on Microsoft

MyDoom plans attack on Microsoft 07/27/2004 06:13 PM
ZDNet Jul 27 2004 8:53PM GMT

Microsoft preps attack on Google

Microsoft preps attack on Google 11/15/2003 07:49 PM
A REPORT SAID that Microsoft's next target will be ever popular site Google, which apparently the software firm views as a competitor to its business. ...

MyDoom.B Attack on Microsoft Fizzles

MyDoom.B Attack on Microsoft Fizzles 02/10/2004 02:52 AM
The MyDoom.B worm was set to launch a nearly-month-long distributed denial-of-service attack yesterday against Microsoft's myriad Web sites, but there was no measurable impact.

Microsoft, under attack, aims to offer
security

Microsoft, under attack, aims to offer
security 07/06/2004 08:26 AM
Two and a half years after launching its Trustworthy Computing initiative, Microsoft Corp. is finding its products the target of escalating attacks, to the extent that some security experts are even warning that the company's Internet Explorer (IE) browser is simply not safe to use.

Microsoft to Use Patents to Attack Open
Source?

Microsoft to Use Patents to Attack Open
Source? 07/22/2004 09:24 AM
Would Microsoft consider filing patent-infringement lawsuits to thwart open source? Based on a Hewlett-Packard memo, HP officials seemed to think, back in 2002, that Microsoft was poised to launch a number of these kinds of suits against Linux distributors, OEMs and/or developers.

MyDoom opens door for attack on
Microsoft

MyDoom opens door for attack on
Microsoft 07/27/2004 04:23 PM
New variant of the worm represents a troubling trend that results in PCs being "owned by the virus writers," one expert says.

MyDoom that Hit SEs on Tuesday Was
Actually a Setup Attack Against
Microsoft

MyDoom that Hit SEs on Tuesday Was
Actually a Setup Attack Against
Microsoft 07/28/2004 05:45 AM
"The Mydoom-M virus which was responsible for the on again off again problems for Google, Yahoo, Lycos and Altavista by using them to find email and domain addresses, was aparently the first part of a staged attack against Microsoft."

Porn worm launches DoS attack on
Microsoft

Porn worm launches DoS attack on
Microsoft 03/31/2005 10:56 PM

Microsoft update thwarts attack from new
virus

Microsoft update thwarts attack from new
virus 07/03/2004 05:23 AM
Seattle Times Jul 3 2004 8:13AM GMT

Mysterious New Attack Affects Microsoft
Web Servers and Browsers

Mysterious New Attack Affects Microsoft
Web Servers and Browsers 06/28/2004 08:08 PM
About Jun 28 2004 11:22PM GMT

Microsoft issues patch to block latest
attack

Microsoft issues patch to block latest
attack 07/03/2004 03:34 AM
Seattle Post Intelligencer Jul 3 2004 7:39AM GMT

Internet attack exploits Microsoft
software flaws

Internet attack exploits Microsoft
software flaws 06/26/2004 01:18 AM
ExpressIndia.com Jun 26 2004 5:36AM GMT

Microsoft unleashes legal attack dogs
on spammers

Microsoft unleashes legal attack dogs
on spammers 12/18/2003 06:57 AM
Teams up with NY

Microsoft Developing Linux Policy, Plan
of Attack

Microsoft Developing Linux Policy, Plan
of Attack 08/10/2004 10:20 AM

Zindos enters MyDoom backdoor to attack
Microsoft

Zindos enters MyDoom backdoor to attack
Microsoft 07/28/2004 09:37 AM
Computer Shopper Jul 28 2004 2:17PM GMT

Microsoft attack worm rides on the back
of MyDoom

Microsoft attack worm rides on the back
of MyDoom 07/28/2004 05:50 AM
The Register Jul 28 2004 9:20AM GMT

Google, Yahoo, Microsoft hit by a major
hacker attack

Google, Yahoo, Microsoft hit by a major
hacker attack 06/17/2004 08:09 AM
PakTribune.com Jun 17 2004 12:38PM GMT

Microsoft unleashes legal attack dogs on
spammers

Microsoft unleashes legal attack dogs on
spammers 12/18/2003 06:55 AM
The Register Dec 18 2003 6:21AM ET

More Attack Code Surfaces For Recent
Microsoft Security Holes

More Attack Code Surfaces For Recent
Microsoft Security Holes 04/26/2004 06:53 PM
Just days after Microsoft warned its customers about the release of code that can exploit a hole in its Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) library, new code that claims to exploit another recently disclosed hole surfaced on a French language Web site. By Paul Roberts, IDG News Service (via MyAppleMenu)

Symantec announces MyDoom worms linked
to attack on Microsoft.com

Symantec announces MyDoom worms linked
to attack on Microsoft.com 07/28/2004 08:07 AM
AME Info Jul 28 2004 12:32PM GMT

Microsoft launches mini-attack on data
back-up market

Microsoft launches mini-attack on data
back-up market 09/20/2004 12:47 PM
The Register Sep 20 2004 5:00PM GMT

Sophos discovers first Trojan to attack
Microsoft anti-spyware product

Sophos discovers first Trojan to attack
Microsoft anti-spyware product 06/06/2005 12:06 AM

""I am satisfied that I never saw any
intelligence that indicated there was
going to be an attack on America -- at a
time and a place, an attack." "

""I am satisfied that I never saw any
intelligence that indicated there was
going to be an attack on America -- at a
time and a place, an attack." " 04/13/2004 10:28 PM

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS03-050:
Vulnerability in Microsoft Word and
Microsoft Excel Could Allow Arbitrary
Code to Run (831527)

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS03-050:
Vulnerability in Microsoft Word and
Microsoft Excel Could Allow Arbitrary
Code to Run (831527) 11/13/2003 12:36 AM
A security vulnerability exists in Microsoft Word that could allow malicious code execution. This vulnerability exists due to to the way Word checks the length of a data value (Macro names) embedded in a document. If a specially crafted document were to be opened it could overflow a data value in Word and allow arbitrary code to be executed. If successfully exploited, an attacker could then take the same actions as the user had permissions to carry out, such as adding, changing or deleting data or files, communicating with a web site or formatting the hard drive.

Art Attack

Art Attack 06/09/2004 10:33 PM

On June 15, a federal grand jury will convene in upstate New York to consider possible bioterrorism charges against University at Buffalo art professor Steve Kurtz and the Critical Art Ensemble, an internationally-known hactivist collective. From the CAE Defense Fund Web site:

"Early morning of May 11, Steve Kurtz awoke to find his wife, Hope, dead of a cardiac arrest. Kurtz called 911. The police arrived and, after stumbling across test tubes and petri dishes Kurtz was using in a current artwork, called in the Joint Terrorism Task Force.

Soon agents from the Task Force and FBI detained Kurtz, cordoned off the entire block around his house, and later impounded Kurtz's computers, manuscripts, books, equipment, and even his wife's body for further analysis. The Buffalo Health Department condemned the house as a health risk.

Only after the Commissioner of Public Health for New York State had tested samples from the home and announced there was no public safety threat was Kurtz able to return home and recover his wife's body. Yet the FBI would not release the impounded materials, which included artwork for an upcoming exhibition at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art."

This Washington Post article provides more background on the bizarre turn-of-events. Protests at the Court House in Buffalo and in other major cities are planned. Link

DOS attack

DOS attack 01/03/2005 11:54 AM

This site is under what appears to be a DOS attack from 70.85.45.132. Of course, it could just be a script kiddie trying to write his first email address harvester. I've notified my ISP, his ISP, and added a quick and dirty IP ban filter.

DoS Attack Nothing New

DoS Attack Nothing New 05/18/2004 01:14 PM
Some WLAN security experts say that the reaction to a type of denial of service (DoS) attack recently described by Queensland University researchers is severe: "This is new only in a small incremental sense," said Rich Mironov, vice president of marketing for AirMagnet. "This is one new flavor or variation of the DoS attack." The report from Australia has been widely described as a dramatic new security fault inherent in the 802.11b standard. Some reports have included recommendations to stop using 802.11b networks altogether. The attack appears to have no real effect on 802.11a or 802.11g-only networks which employ a different signal encoding method than 802.11b. But some say the attack isn't new at all. Richard Rushing, chief security officer for AirDefense, says this new report looks exactly like findings presented by University of San Diego researchers at a UseNix conference last August. The buzz around the recent report from Queensland just happens to be better publicized, he said. Neither Mironov nor Rushing expect the form of attacks to be particularly threatening. The attack can be performed with an off-the-shelf PC card but the card's firmware must be modified using a driver that may or may not become public. "It's probably going to come out, but it's not necessarily going to propagate," said Rushing. Even if it does get widely circulated, the attacks themselves will be limited to the APs in range of the altered PC card. "It's not like the whole network crashes. It's the one or two or three APs nearby that are crashing," Mironov said. AirMagnet's current product looks for 16 other distinct DoS attacks and will soon identify this type of attack. When its network sensors pick up on the attack, an alarm is sent to a network administrator. An IT manager can then use a handheld device to locate the source of the attack to shut it down. AirMagnet expects to be able to distribute an update that will identify this specific attack in about a week, Mironov said. Key to identifying such attacks are sensors that are separate from the APs, Rushing said. "If I'm using the AP to get my monitoring information I won't see anything. I'll just see that nothing is connecting to the AP," he said. But a separate sensor would see the signals sent from the hacker's device. Mironov says this new attack is not a reason to shy from...

Mac Attack

Mac Attack 01/16/2004 10:59 AM
Anyone who knows me knows that I love my Aunt more than anyone in this world besides my children. I...

Under attack

Under attack 05/19/2004 08:56 AM
CNET Asia May 19 2004 1:21PM GMT

SCO Under DOS attack again

SCO Under DOS attack again 12/12/2003 03:19 AM
Apparently SCO needs to hire some System Administrators that have a clue on how to prevent this third DOS attack....

SCO hit by DoS attack

SCO hit by DoS attack 12/10/2003 06:35 PM
VIA NEWS RELEASE LINDON, Utah -- The SCO Group, Inc., owner of the UNIX operating system, today confirmed that on Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2003 at approximately 4:20 a.m. Mountain Time, it experienced a large-scale distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. The attack caused the company's Web site and corporate operational traffic to be unavailable during the morning hours including e-mail, the company intranet, and customer support operations. The company's site remains unavailable while this DDoS attack continues to take place. The company is working with its Internet Service Provider to restore www.sco.com to legitimate Internet users.

Under Mac Attack

Under Mac Attack 04/05/2005 07:03 PM

Call off the dogs -- we really do support Macs at InfoWorld. It's just not a religious thing. By Chad Dickerson, InfoWorld

Art attack update

Art attack update 06/30/2004 09:39 AM
University of Buffalo professor Steve Kurtz, a member of the Critical Art Ensemble, was charged yesterday with mail and wire fraud. As you may recall, Kurtz has been under investigation after he awoke to find his wife dead and called the police who discovered some biological materials related to Kurtz's latest art project. (See this post for background.) Robert Ferrell, chair of the Department of Human Genetics at the University of Pittsburgh's School of Public Health, was also charged for helping Kurtz obtain $256 worth of harmless bacteria. The absurdity continues. Link

Gun attack on home

Gun attack on home 07/01/2004 02:05 AM
A family escapes injury in a gun attack on their home on the Parkmore estate in Craigavon.

WINS comes under attack

WINS comes under attack 01/05/2005 10:01 PM
TechSpot Jan 6 2005 1:06AM GMT
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