Earlier this week Sophos released a scheduled update to their anti-virus definition files
The new definitions detected the Sophos updating process, and a number of other auto-updating applications, as variants of the malware Shh/Updater-B
In addition to setting of a huge volume of false positives, the detection also resulted in the quarantine, blocking or deletion of parts of the Sophos updater
The updated definitions that solve the problem were released on Wed, 19 Sep 2012 21:32 BST
However, the updated definitions could not be downloaded by Sophos, because the updater had been broken
This is an especially large issue for enterprise deployments of Sophos
The Sophos support number was down, the call volume was so great that most people could not even get into the hold queue
Internet Explorer versions 6 through 9 are vulnerable to a new series of attacks
Exploits for a previously unknown use-after-free memory corruption vulnerability, in addition to three more exploits that were found and tied to a hacker group in China known as Nitro (the same group responsible for exploits of two zero-day Java flaws disclosed three weeks ago)
Security researcher Eric Romang discovered the first of the exploits last weekend while monitoring an infected server
When a user lands on an infected page, the exploit installs the PoisonIvy remote access Trojan
Jaime Blasco of AlienVault Labs then discovered three additional exploits, one of which drops the PlugX trojan
The new exploits appear to be targeted at defense contractors in the U.S. and India
An unknown exploit was found in a Defense News Portal site in India, it had been served for at least four days
Nearly every carrier neutral data center in the world contains a MeetMe room
MeetMe rooms more often used for private peering, rather than internet transit
Transit is when you buy ‘Internet’ service from another provider, they provide you with a ‘default route’ that you can send traffic to, and it will be delivered to anywhere on the internet
Peering is where providers swap traffic that is specifically destin to each others networks, so if Provider A peers with Provider B, Provider A must use their transit connection to reach provider C, only traffic between A and B (and their customers) are allowed across the ‘peering’ link
If 1 Wilshire (the building in question) were to go entirely offline, all connections in and out severed, the Internet would continue to operate, traffic would be routed around the missing nodes
Performance would be degraded, and it is possible that some of the ‘backup’ routes could not handle all of the traffic, but the network would not cease to work
The Internet is based on the principle of being able to get data from Point A to any Point B, reliably
To do this, the Internet’s backbone providers use BGP4 routing protocol (Border Gateway Protocol)
Most Internet Transit providers have maps that look like this:
He goes by Illusionist Lynx and he’s used MATH to make music (and a bunch of ther cool methods) check out his pay-what-you-want music on his bandcamp site: Illusionist Lynx
Nicholas is getting married, and he needs your HELP!
Nicholas is live streaming his marriage proposal, and hopes to have the JB audience tune in, and maybe help get his girl friend to the right location!
The site people can visit is https://rachelwillyoumarryme.com/
Visit his site an hour before the event (countdown on his website)
When the call to action comes, help him spam his girlfriend into arriving at the correct location.
To help organize, show up early and watch the show’s subreddit!
