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IRS/Quicken spam leads to exploit kits and malware
February 7, 2012
With tax season upon us in many countries it is that time where scammers try to take advantage of the situation and lead you to tax-related malicious links.
SophosLabs has seen a large number of emails purporting to be from Intuit, the company that makes QuickBooks bookkeeping software.
Sophos anti-spam products have been detecting and blocking these messages for quite some time, but the messages are so convincing that our own customers have been reporting the blocks to Sophos as false-positives!
Intuit have posted a warning to their security center advising customers that this may be a phishing attack, unfortunately it is a lot worse than that.
People who decided to click on the link contained in the email are directed to a web page that contains JavaScript representative of the sites infected with the Blackhole exploit kit.
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Encrypted? Check. Strong passphrase? Check. Mailing them together? Oops.
February 4, 2012
Earlier this week the Birmingham News reported on a data loss incident at financial services giant Regions Financial.
The incident occurred when an Ernst and Young employee needed to transfer personally identifiable information on Regions' 401K participants to another office during an audit.
Regions employs 27,000 people and the information lost included data on both current and former employees.
Following best practice the USB memory stick was encrypted. Yay! They used a strong key. Yay! They put the key and the USB memory stick in the same envelope and mailed them to the other office. What?
That's right kids... If you need to encrypt something and securely transmit it, don't include the keys with the encrypted file.
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HMRC phishing scam promises end of year refund
December 29, 2011
Emails are currently circulating that purport to be sent by the UK tax organization HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC). These e-mails claim that the recipient is eligible to receive a tax refund and that he or she must download an attached file and open it in a browser.
The scam e-mail reads in part:
TAX REFUND NOTIFICATION
Dear Taxpayer,
After the last annual calculations of your fiscal activity we have determined that you are eligible to receive a tax refund of 223.56 GBP.
Please submit the tax refund request and allow us 6-9 days in order to process it.
To access your tax refund, please follow the steps below:
- download the Tax Refund Form attached to this email
- open it in a browser
- follow the instructions on your screen
A refund can be delayed for a variety of reasons. For example submitting invalid records or applying after the deadline.
Opening the attached file displays a form which prompts the victim to fill in his or her full name, date of birth, complete address, phone number, and credit card or debit card information
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Quadsys ltd are delighted to become one of the first to achieve exclusive McAfee ACE status in the McAfee SecurityAlliance ACE Program!
November 11, 2011
The ACE (Accredited Channel Engineer) Program was developed to promote excellence amongst McAfee's Partners. A McAfee Technical ACE is a partner technical resource in the field who has demonstrated a complete understanding of architectural and positioning support for the solution. By achieving ACE status, Quadsys have proven we have the technical expertise to offer advice and consultancy expertise.
Quadsys are now recognised as leading Pre and Post sales experts with McAfee Solutions highlighting to our clients we have the skills and knowledge to be a cut above the competition.
McAfee ACE is the highest McAfee Technical certification offered in the McAfee SecurityAlliance Partner Program. Achieving this certification is an exceptional achievement and a fitting testament to our highly skilled consultants.
UK businesses are using more Encryption but users are still shoving unprotected USB sticks into Holes......
November 21, 2011
Despite a run of high-profile security breaches, almost half of UK corporate laptops remain unprotected against theft and data loss, according to a survey of British businesses published on Thursday.
Only 52 per cent of 320 UK public and private sector IT managers polled in the survey use data encryption on their corporate laptops. Half (50 per cent) fail to protect removable media (USB sticks and DVDs).
The study, commissioned by corporate network and device security firm Check Point, showed that data encryption usage on UK business laptops has grown significantly in the past year. Laptop encryption up 12 points from 40 per cent last year to 52 per cent this year. Consumerisation of IT, the trend where workers use their own smartphones or computers at work as an alternative to using more staid corporate-supplied kit, emerged as a key concern among survey participants.
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McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 4.6.1 is now available on the McAfee Download site
October 19, 2011
McAfee have release the latest patch for ePO 4.6. This release provides security and other fixes including support for additional internet browsers. This patch includes 47 important fixes.
Top Improvements:
o Firefox 4.x and 5.x now supported
o Internet explorer 9.0 full support
o All other browsers now display a warning that the browser is not supported but the user is allowed to proceed with the login.
This release can be used for a first-time installation or for an upgrade from the following version of ePolicy Orchestrator:
o McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 4.0 Patch 7 (build 1363)
o McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 4.5 Patch 3 (build 937 or later)
o McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 4.6 (build 1029)
For a full list of features / enhancements please view the McAfee ePO 4.6.1 release notes here
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