Worm ready to wriggle into smart phones      
The worm program, dubbed Cabir by Russian antivirus company Kaspersky, apparently uses the Bluetooth short-range wireless feature of smart phones that run the Symbian operating system to detect other Symbian phones, and then transfers itself to the new host as a package file. While able to replicate the spread of the virus in research settings, antivirus companies have not found any evidence that the program is infecting smart phones outside of those limited test cases.
 
Notebook: Google/Orkut worm, Leaky HP laptops; Google text ad Trojan; Sun patches      
Today's dose of security items includes an Orkut worm, HP's laptop woes; Google ad Trojan and Sun Management Center patches.
 
Sobering up      
Email viruses are so passe, between improved filtering and spreading user awareness, this is a plague that's over - or, at least, that's the received wisdom among pundits.
 
Virus message teases with pictures of bin Laden's death      
Antivirus company Sophos warned today of a scheme that invokes Osama bin Laden to convince people to open a file containing a Trojan horse called Hackarmy. The message, which has been posted on several Internet newsgroups, claims to contain pictures taken by CNN journalists of bin Laden committing suicide. But once the supposed picture file is opened, it installs a Trojan horse that effectively recruits the infected machine into the author’s army of "zombie" PCs–already-infected machines that can be controlled surreptitiously from afar. The zombified computers can then be used to distribute spam or launch denial-of-service attacks.
 
Verdict of "live" test: Not all antivirus tools are created equal      
At the LinuxWorld Expo in San Francisco earlier this week, a live test of antivirus products was conducted on the last night.
 
Securing from the inside: Whitelisting      
This time, I want to talk about one of my suggestions - whitelisting. It's a technology that's been around for a while now, but it's something that antivirus companies probably don't want you to know too much about.
 
Microsoft will enter the antivirus business      
When Microsoft bought Sybari earlier this year, you figured this was where they were headed. I certainly didn’t expect them to give away enterprise antivrus solutions (even if the argument could be made they maybe they should give away antivirus software to protect their operating systems). Today, Microsoft finished its acquisition of Sybari and basically announced that it will be selling Sybari’s Antigen antivirus products. Antigen is my favorite antivirus solution for Exchange. It always protected me well when I was running Exchange in my last job. I hope Microsoft keeps making the product better because it’s a nice piece of software.
 
Microsoft: No antivirus product yet      
Microsoft intends to create an antivirus service in the near future, but has not finalized its plans, a company executive said Tuesday.
 
SANS Institute paints gloomy security picture      
The SANS Institute report on the state of security circa 2007 is enough to make you want to pull your ethernet cord out. Is anything out there secure?
 
Auctioneer hyping sale of "ravaging" ClamAntiVirus vulnerability      
The WabiSabiLabi vulnerability auction house is hyping the sale of a potentially nasty remote code execution flaw in ClamAV, the popular open-source anti-virus toolkit recently acquired by Sourcefire.
 
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