Marloe Group has seen a rise in incidents where the following threats to customer networks have been detected...
Hacker Disables More Than 100 Cars Remotely


More than 100 drivers in Austin, Texas found their cars disabled or the horns honking out of control, after an intruder ran amok in a web-based vehicle-immobilization system normally used to get the attention of consumers delinquent in their auto payments.

Read More http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/03/hacker-bricks-cars/#ixzz0ieXwslNQ

Mozilla Acknowledges Critical Zero Day Flaw in Firefox

Mozilla was contacted by Evgeny Legerov, the security researcher who discovered the bug referenced in the Secunia report, with sufficient details to reproduce and analyze the issue. The vulnerability was determined to be critical and could result in remote code execution by an attacker. The vulnerability has been patched by developers and we are currently undergoing quality assurance testing for the fix. Firefox 3.6.2 is scheduled to be released March 30th and will contain the fix for this issue.

Mozilla already has released a beta build of Firefox 3.6.2, which contains the fix for the unpatched vulnerability. The full version will be available on March 30.

https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/3.6.2-candidates/build3/

Aurora Botnet

New and outstanding information uncovered by Damballa. This release of information should prove to turn the tides on the bot net and zombie networks, and this company has an incredible vantage point with their expertise. Why is this new information so important? Our customers have all been affected by this attack in one of three formats.

Read about the attack...

http://www.damballa.com/research/aurora/?utm_source=Threatpost&utm_medium=Tabs&utm_campaign=Today%27s+Most+Popular

Learn more about how hackers hack in this quick video. Great information provided by Damballa

http://www.damballa.com/resources/video/malware/active_bots.html

Mariposa Botnet Authors May Avoid Jail Time

Three Spanish men were arrested last month for allegedly building an international network of more than 12 million hacked PCs that were used for everything from identity theft to spamming. But according to Spanish authorities and security experts who helped unravel the crime ring, the accused may very well never see the inside of a jail cell even if they are ultimately found guilty, due to insufficient cyber crime legislation in Spain.

Read More Here

http://www.krebsonsecurity.com/2010/03/mariposa-botnet-authors-may-avoid-jail-time/

If you feel your company may be susceptible to any of these vulnerabilities, please contact Marloe Group, Inc.
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