Security Briefing: May 29th

Good morning and welcome back everyone. Thanks and welcome to our new subscribers to the feed! Today I’m running on roughly 3 hours sleep so, I may be slow on the draw posting. Mainlining caffeine may help. We shall see.

And now, the news…

1. Phishing season still open in New Zealand
2. When Microsoft Vista and VPNs don’t mix
3. Peer-to-peer networks co-opted for DOS attacks
4. ‘Microsoft Support’ has something very important to say
5. Attacks on Estonia move to new front
6. Sampled Traffic Analysis by Internet-Exchange-Level Adversaries
7. Google Deal Said to Bring U.S. Scrutiny
8. MPack, Packed Full of Badness
9. Shiver me timbers! It’s a pirate Trojan

[tags]News, Daily Links, Security Blog, MPack, Pirate Trojan, Google, Estonia, P2P, DoS, Phishing[/tags]