ICANN SSAC (Security and Stability Advisory Committee) has published an advisory SAC 028 “Registrar Impersonation Phishing Attacks”.

Ed Skoudis describes some of built-in Windows commands. They can be useful to determine if a system has been hacked.

Nmap, Nessus, Metasploit Framework, Wireshark and KisMAC are featured in yesterday’s Computerworld article.

Adobe Flash Player is prone to an unspecified remote code-execution vulnerability.

New critical cross-site scripting vulnerability is found on Facebook.com.

Microsoft announced the extension of the Microsoft Security Cooperation Program (SCP) to include computer emergency response teams (CERTs), computer security incident response teams (CSIRTS), and other response and guidance organizations that represent a nation, region or population. The primary goal of the third version of Microsoft SCP, called SCPcert, is to provide customers with the best protection possible by making necessary information available for CERTs to respond to computer security incidents.

A new U.S. Patent Application 20080082465 has been published in April. The assignee is Microsoft Corporation and Bill Gates is listed as one of the inventors. This Patent Application describes an intelligent personalized agent which monitors, regulates, and advises a user in decision-making processes for efficiency or safety concerns.

There are two interesting articles about botnets I have noticed in today’s headlines: “The botnet business” by Vitaly Kamluk (Viruslist) and “U.S. military to build botnet?” by Robert Lemos (SecurityFocus).

“Windows Vista is better at protecting against malware than XP but more easily infected than Windows 2000, according to a study by Australian anti-virus firm PC Tools. [...] Recent research based on malware scans of more than 1.4m PCs running PC Tools’ ThreatFire security technology over a period of six months turned up 639 threats [...]

Alexander Gostev, Senior Virus Analyst at Kaspersky Lab, has released the report “Malware evolution: January – March 2008″. What is interesting, in brief.