2008.01.10 Daily Security Reading
by Rodney Campbell on Jan.10, 2008, under Security
Thinking fast-flux: New bait for advanced phishing tactics
Years ago, attackers would often have one or two really important machines that were the centerpiece of their criminal money-making schemes. The bad guys, thus, often faced one or more single points of failure in their criminal infrastructures. So, how have today’s enterprising bot-herders, making millions of dollars from their criminal empires, responded to the single points of failure? Two words: fast flux.
Eavesdropping on Bluetooth headsets
Few users realize that Bluetooth headsets can be exploited granting a remote attacker the ability to record and inject audio through the headset while the device is not in an active call.
Seen more as a prank than an actual threat, a Trojan horse for the Apple iPhone, has already come and gone. Still, users should be on the look out for a package called “iPhone firmware 1.1.3 prep,” described as something you need to install before updating to the new 1.1.3 firmware.
Matt Richard from Verisign’s iDefense sent us some information regarding the Master Boot Record (MBR) rookit that’s been found in the wild in the past weeks.
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