Posted on 9th March 2010 by admin in Barracuda Web Filter | Fortinet | Web Filter
– Phishers Used Facebook to Penetrate Financial Firm’s Computer System (March 4, 2010)
Phishers used Facebook to burrow their way into the network of a large US financial company last year.
The attackers took control of one employee’s Facebook account and using information culled from that individual’s friends’ profiles, sent what appeared to be personal messages to several other company employees about pictures taken at a company picnic.
The phishers learned of the picnic through postings on the hijacked account. When one of the other employees received a message asking her to click on a link that would allow her to view the pictures, her computer became infected with keystroke logging malware.
When that employee logged in to a VPN account to access the company network, the attackers were able to capture the necessary information to gain access to that network. The intruders managed to get deeper into the network and take control of two servers before they were detected.
Original Story: http://lastwatchdog.com/facebook-phishers-breached-corporate-network/
Use a different hard password for each publicly accessible website service you use and be suspicious of links in e-mail even if they appear to be from friends.
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Posted on 9th December 2008 by admin in Web Filter
(An interesting article by Joel Esler, published on the Internet Storm Center):
Everyday we receive about 20 reports of “www.xwebsitehere.com” being slow. Today we’ve received a few reports about Google being slow. One reader (thanks Neal) even wrote in to say that after he did some monitoring on his connections, he isolated it down to “pagead2.googlesyndication.com”. Obviously, from the hostname being one of the servers that serves ads to lots of websites.
Neal stated that after he blacklisted this hostname, his browsing went back to normal. Anyone else experiencing similar?
(Yes we have received several reports of Google being slow, I’m asking if you can replicate the “pagead2″ issue.)
Update: We haven’t heard any more about this today, so, I’m not sure of the end result. Personally, if my Google Ads are a little slow in loading… I’m not sure I mind much.
Update 2: We just received an email from a reader in Denmark, using Everydns.net, is having his Google DNS queries redirected to a Yahoo server. No more info than that at this time.
– Joel Esler http://www.joelesler.net
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Posted on 19th November 2008 by admin in Barracuda Networks | Featured | Network Security | Web Filter
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Barracuda Web Filter firmware release 4.0 is now generally available to all customers. This major release includes powerful new features and enhancements, including:
- Support for Cisco WCCP v1 and v2 enabled routers/switches; allows forwarding of HTTP traffic via a single WCCP-enabled router.
- Integration with the Barracuda Control Center (BCC); enables administrators to control multiple units from a single location.
- Expanded Reporting Capabilities; offers 8 new time-based reports including “Top Users by Session Time” and “Top Domains by Session Time.”
To view detailed firmware release notes, click here.
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