2008—Ending With a Bang

This has been an interesting year for high-profile vulnerabilities and security research. In 2008, awareness has been raised about a number of high impact, remote code-execution vulnerabilities affecting both server- and client-side applications. Published attacks targeted important protocols used by critical Internet infrastructure.

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Conficker.C

The most infected countries are:

Otros: 13.98%

Venezuela: 10.53%

Brazil: 10.49%

Russia: 10.07%

Italy: 9.07%

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ExpressAntiVirus2009

Misleading Application

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Spyware.NetScreenWatch

Spyware

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Phishing Attacks Utilizing Port Numbers

There are varying types of technologies used by online attackers these days. There are old tricks and of course new ones, but it is the newer ones that make it even more difficult to handle the dilemmas faced in the world of Internet security. One of the trends of attack that was noticed a little while ago was an attack based on a website’s “port number.”

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