RCA Digital Voice Recorders

November 2008

The software for RCA Digital Voice Recorder is located on the RCA player itself.
Once you've plugged in the device, there will be 5 folders. One of the folders will
be a setup folder. Once the setup of the program is install and running, Digital Voice Manager, the program, will play .VOC files. It will also allow the file to be converted into a .WAV file. The above link is to the RCA Homepage and this link is to the manuals.

http://support.rcaaudiovideo.com/manual.aspx?product=393

Adobe Reader Exploited...

November 2008

Hackers have painted a bull’s-eye on an Adobe Reader flaw patched by the company earlier this week. The attackers are targeting a vulnerability in Adobe Reader 8.1.2 uncovered by Core Security Technologies. According to an advisory from the SANS Institute’s Internet Storm Center, attackers are using malicious PDF files to exploit the bug, which Adobe Systems patched November 4. If successfully exploited, the bug could allow hackers to take complete control of a compromised system. The bug lies in the way Adobe Reader implements the java_script util.printf() function, and makes it possible to overwrite the program’s memory and control its execution flow. Exploit code for the flaw has already been posted to Milw0rm. In addition to Reader, the bug affects Adobe Acrobat 8.1.2. Officials at Adobe advise users to either update their software to Version 9 of Reader and Acrobat, which are not susceptible to the attack, or deploy the patch.

10,000 sites Hacked!!!

November 2008

10,000 Web sites hacked into, unpatched visitors in danger, says Kaspersky. Hackers have launched a widespread Web site attack, leaving malicious links on up to 10,000 web servers, says security software firm Kaspersky Lab. Kaspersky says the servers hacked into are mainly located in Western Europe and the United States. It is not clear at this stage who has hacked the machines, but the expectation is that the number of infected sites will rise. The cyber criminals are adding a line ofjava_script code onto the sites that redirects hacked site visitors to one of six servers. These sites then redirect the visitor to a server in China. That server can then launch a variety of attacks, targeting known flaws in the Firefox and Internet Explorer browsers, Adobe’s Flash Player and ActiveX management controls, said Kaspersky. Victims who do not have fully patched PCs run the risk of allowing the remote attackers to install spyware on their machines, and then to steal their data.

WPA Wi-Fi Cracked???

November 2008

Once thought safe, WPA Wi-Fi encryption is cracked. Security researchers say they have developed a way to partially crack the Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) encryption standard used to protect data on many wireless networks. The attack, described as the first practical attack on WPA, will be discussed at the PacSec conference in Tokyo next week. There, a researcher will show how he was able to crack WPA encryption and read data being sent from a router to a laptop computer. The attack could also be used to send bogus information to a client connected to the router. To do this, the researcher and his co-researcher found a way to break the Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) key, used by WPA, in a relatively short amount of time: 12 to 15 minutes, according to the PacSec conference’s organizer. They have not, however, managed to crack the encryption keys used to secure data that goes from the PC to the router in this particular attack

Virus infections via USB drives

November 2008

Virus infections via USB drives increasing sharply. Antivirus software maker Trend Micro Inc. has found that reported computer virus infections via USB flash memory drives more than doubled in September, Jiji Press learned. Infections in the month with the Otorun worm, which propagates via removal drives such as USB drives, surged 140 percent from the previous month to 347 cases, Trend Micro said in a monthly survey report. The company’s monthly reports showed that viruses transmitted via USB drives began to rapidly increase in February, with the number of Otorun infections in January-June reaching 517, the most popular to far exceed 201 cases of the Agent, Trend Micro said. The company said that 53.7 percent of viruses newly found in September were capable of sneaking into computers via USB drives. Such viruses are becoming a great threat because most people are not aware of them, the security software firm warned.

Better Business Bureau

November 2008

Better Business Bureau warns of e-mail scam. The Better Business Bureau (BBB) warns of a computer virus scam. The scammers are posing as the BBB asking you to register for software or to update your information. The scammers pick credible agencies like the BBB to gain trust. On the morning of October 24, the scammers sent out a massive attack preying on people’s e-mail. They altered their mail message to match the BBB, but more than five million e-mails did not go through and bounced back to the BBB office. That is how the BBB knew the scammers sent out a massive attack on consumers. This is a new scam, but the BBB hopes that by warning consumers early they will prevent them from becoming a victim.