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Posted By Pete at 8:59 PM, February 28, 2010
Just a reminder that the RSA Conference is back in town. For those of you interested in security, RSA is the place to be. Personally, I'm looking forward to what new developments in security 2010 will bring. See you all at the show!
Posted by: Pete at 8:59 PM
Categories: General
Posted By Pete at 8:48 PM, February 28, 2010
Yesterday, a large number of Twitter users received from friends tweets titled "this you????" which pointed to a false Twitter landing page.
If the victim enters their user name and password on the fake landing page, the attackers will be able to control their account and use it to send out even more phishing tweets.
Does this attack sound familiar? Here at the lab, we use MSN quite a lot and have seen many similar phishing attacks via MSN. This type of phishing attack is based on a sociological approach and is being rapidly ported to twitter and other social networks.
We recommend that you do not open any suspicious messages whether it's Twitter or MSN or anything else. If your friends frequently tell you that they are receiving strange messages from you, it probably means your account information has been stolen and that you need to change your password as soon as possible in addition to a full system virus scan.
Posted by: Pete at 8:48 PM
Categories: Netgear Threat Lab , Phishing
Posted By Pete at 2:04 PM, February 23, 2010
eWeek has just published their review of the UTM5. The review talks about the various components of the UTM5 and also gives their thoughts on setting up the unit.
See what they have to say here.
Posted by: Pete at 2:04 PM
Categories: General
Posted By Netgear Threat Lab at 3:08 PM, February 12, 2010
On January 27th, Apple formally introduced to the world the iPad, when countless delighted when Apple fans rejoiced. They weren't the only ones. Cyber criminals were also excited but for other reasons.
Big news events such as the earthquake in Haiti have always been exploited by cyber criminals.
The iPad announcement for them, was a golden opportunity to spread new viruses. They used various SEO poisoning techniques (SEO (Search Engine Optimization) poisoning techniques) to accomplish this. The mal-websites containing the viruses will show up at the top of well-known search engine search results.
When the user arrives at the sites of these viruses, the site will present the user with a fake online virus scan, then inform the user's that the computer has been infected, and present a virus (Trojan-Downloader.Win32.FraudLoad.wxuf ) disguised as anti-virus software for the user to download and install.
This type of threat can be stopped in real-time by ProSecure appliances.
Posted by: Netgear Threat Lab at 3:08 PM
Categories: General , Malware , Netgear Threat Lab
Posted By Pete at 3:48 PM, February 5, 2010
We just introduced the latest member of the UTM family the UTM5. It contains all the security found in the UTM10 and UTM25 at slightly slower speeds. It's a great fit for smaller office networks and basically gives you the high level of protection found in high end Web/Email security gateways, plus the functionality and connectivity options of a good firewall.
One thing we didn't compromise on is the security effectiveness. What good is a security appliance if it doesn't effectively do what it was brought in to do? The UTM5 is a great value, but there is nothing "economy class" about the coverage and performance of the UTM5.
Contact your local VAR or sign up at prosecure.netgear.com for a risk free 30 day eval.
Posted by: Pete at 3:48 PM
Categories: General
Posted By Pete at 3:39 PM, February 5, 2010
Back in November a critical SSL Vulnerability was discovered.
I'm pleased to say that firmware version 1.0.16-0 for our UTM family contains patched versions of SSL. There are many components within the UTM that uses SSL so getting this patch was very important.
It's a good thing this vulnerability was discovered by researchers with good intentions as this could have resulted in a disaster (with the economy the way it is, even if the bad guys did exploit the vulnerability there probably wasn't that much to steal ;-))
You can read the release notes here.
Posted by: Pete at 3:39 PM
Categories: General
Posted By Pete at 10:38 AM, February 2, 2010
IT Pro has just published their review of the STM300. Head on over and see what they have to say about the STM300.
Posted by: Pete at 10:38 AM
Categories: General