Articles by eSecurityPlanet.com Staff

DataSecure Upgrade Adds Field-Level Encryption

The Ingrian DataSecure Platform 3.0 from Ingrian Networks adds field-level encryption to the data privacy appliance, meaning that a single credit card number can be encrypted instead of the entire credit card database.

Worm Exploits Certain Vulnerabilities to Spread

Worm_Agobot.O exploits certain vulnerabilities to propagate across networks, according to Trend Micro, which issued a low-level alert today.

Worm Attempts to Steal Credit Card Information

Some security vendors Thursday issued alerts for W32/Mimail.s@MM, a worm that contains its own SMTP engine to replicate itself and also attempts to steal user's credit card information data.

New Mydoom Variant Also Arrives as Email Attachment

On the heels of the rapid spread Tuesday of the Mydoom.A worm, several vendors Wednesday are reporting the appearance of a new variant, W32/MyDoom-B, a worm that also spreads by email attachments.

Several High-Level Worm Threats Reported

Several security vendors have issued emergency, high-outbreak alerts for W32/MyDoom-A, a worm that travels by email, and are warning systems administrators around the world to ensure their systems are protected.

New Dumaru Variant Arrives as Photograph

Several security vendors have issued alerts for another variant of the Dumaru email worm--W32/Dumaru.Y--although some recognize it as Dumaru.Z.

Worm Arrives on Floppy Disk

W32/Flopcopy-A is a simple worm that spreads by copying itself to the floppy disk if a disk is inserted into the floppy drive, according to Sophos, which issued a low-level alert Friday.

Slight Variation of Bagle Worm Detected

McAfee Thursday reporting receiving a slightly modified sample of W32/Bagle@MM worm, which is detected with the same DATs and Engine as the initial variant.

Trojan Sends Emails, Downloads Malicious Files

Security vendors Symantec and McAfee issued alerts Wednesday for a Trojan known as Mitglieder that tries to send unsolicited emails and download malicious files.

Bagle Virus Now a Medium-Level Threat

Security vendors are reporting the rapid spreading of the new virus known as W32/Bagle-mm.

Worm/Trojan, Copies Itself to Windows Folder

W32/SdBot-DC is an internet worm and an IRC backdoor Trojan that copies itself into the Windows system folder as EXECDLL32.EXE, according to Sophos, which issued an alert Friday.

Worm Copies Itself to Network Shares With Weak Passwords

W32/Rirc-A is a worm that spreads by copying itself to network shares protected by weak passwords at random IP addresses, according to Sophos, which issued an alert Thursday.

ISPs Unite Against Spam

A new group, led by Openwave, aims to develop practices and technology to slow the flow of network-choking spam.

Trojan is Malicious Web Page That Executes Program

Troj/Inor-B is a malicious Web page that drops and runs an executable program on the local file system, according to Sophos, which issued an alert Wednesday.

Microsoft Issues 3 Patches; IE Fix Delayed

UPDATE: First major patch of the year includes three big fixes, but five 'extremely critical' holes in Internet Explorer are pending.

Worm Targets Network Shares With Weak Passwords

Symantec Tuesday issued an alert for W32.HLLW.Gaobot.FQ, a worm that attempts to spread to network shares that have weak passwords and allows attackers to access an infected computer through an IRC channel.

Spammed Email Poses as Urgent Citibank Notification

TrendLabs is reporting receiving several reports about a spammed email that poses as an urgent notification from Citibank.

Fake Microsoft Service Pack is Xombe Trojan

A trojan resembling the Swen virus has started spreading via e-mail.

New Worm Purports to be From Microsoft

Security vendors Friday issued an alert for a downloading Trojan that may arrive as an email about Windows XP from Microsoft.

Yet Another Mimail Variant Surfaces

On the heels of the Mimail.P worm surfacing on Wednesday, security vendor Sophos Thursday issued an alert for the N variant.

New Mimail Variant Sending Bogus Paypal Email

Security vendors are issuing alerts for Worm_Mimail.P, a memory-resident mass-mailing worm that arrives as an email attachment called PP-APP.ZIP file on a target system.

Trojan Sends Spammed Message With Woman's Picture

BackDoor-AWQ.b is a remote access Trojan written in Borland Delphi, according to McAfee, which issued an alert Tuesday.

Multi-Component Worm Searches for Weak System Passwords

Sophos Monday issued a low-level alert for W32/Randon-AB, a multi-component network worm that attempts to spread by copying components of itself to and executing them on remote ADMIN$ shares with weak passwords.

Trojan Lets Attacker Access System

Sophos issued an alert Thursday for Troj/UpRoot-A, a backdoor Trojan for Windows 2000/XP that allows a malicious user remote access to the system.