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Windows Cursor Exploit Spreads
News The hole in the Windows animated cursor, which was flagged in a Microsoft advisory on Thursday, has moved from a targeted attack to one that is widespread, said Johannes Ullrich, chief research officer for the Sans Institute, which also issued an...
[April 2, 2007, 11:05]
JPEG Worm Found On Instant Messenger
News It's been done in the past, but with HTML code instead of the JPEG," said Johannes Ullrich, CTO for SANS' Internet Storm Center, the organisation's online security research unit. When visited, the Web site automatically sends malicious code...
[September 30, 2004, 17:45]
Veritas Patches Backup Flaw
News In this case, however, the vulnerability not only affects the server but also client systems, said Johannes Ullrich, chief research officer for the SANS Institute. The problem with this vulnerability is it's not only running on all the desktops...
[October 14, 2005, 10:45]
Scripting Flaw Leaves Sites Vulnerable
News It is not really easy to execute," said Johannes Ullrich, chief technology officer for the SANS (System Administration, Networking, and Security) Internet Storm Center, who obtained a program file that illustrates the vulnerability.
[February 28, 2002, 9:48]
Cisco Releases Patches For Router Vulnerabilities
News The security flaws could allow attackers to send a few small packets through the routers to shut down the network in a denial-of-service (DoS) attack, said Johannes Ullrich, chief research officer for the Sans Institute, which issued a security...
[May 25, 2007, 9:43]
AOL IM Bot Hides Behind Encryption
News The bot software, which can only infect those who click on a malicious link sent via AIM, may infect upwards of a few tens of thousands of users, said Johannes Ullrich, chief research officer at the Sans Institute.
[May 2, 2006, 10:35]
The Net's New Neighbourhood Watch
News Tired of being ignored, Ullrich created Dshield.org. Many people sent these logs to the ISPs but the ISPs are flooded by such requests," said Dshield's Ullrich, who had previously created a help site for cable-modem users.
[December 6, 2000, 12:09]
Windows Patch Hits The Security Conscious
News The flaw in the patch affects users who tightened down access lists," said Johannes Ullrich, the chief research officer at the SANS Institute. That is worrying, especially with a narrowing amount of time between the release of a software fix and a...
[October 18, 2005, 9:15]
Firefox 1.5 DoS Flaw Made Public
News In testing Firefox 1.5 without a system running McAfee security software, the Firefox 1.5 browser would stall and not respond to a user's mouse, said Johannes Ullrich, chief research officer for the Sans Institute, which runs the Internet Storm...
[December 9, 2005, 8:15]
'Blaster-type Event' Forecast For Summer
News An exploit that uses a vulnerability in the private communications transport (PCT) feature of Windows Web servers, known as Microsoft Internet Information Servers (IIS), has compromised systems at many companies, Ullrich said.
[April 29, 2004, 8:30]
Windows Worms Wreak Havoc
News The multiple worms are hitting individual organisations rather than computer users at large, said Johannes Ullrich, chief research officer at the SANS Institute, an Internet security training and research outfit.
[August 17, 2005, 10:15]
McKinley Servers To Massively Undercut Merced
News Thomas Ullrich, marketing manager for Unix systems at HP, said McKinley will fair better because it will have a full software stack. People will start to push it out in production environments," said Ullrich.
[January 16, 2002, 14:59]
EEye Releases IE Patch
News I don't think we will endorse this patch," said Johannes Ullrich, chief research officer at the SANS Institute. Also, experts including Ullrich, don't see the threat level as equal because there were no practical work-arounds for the Windows Meta...
[March 28, 2006, 12:40]
MSBlast Infects Eight Million PCs
News I don't doubt [the new] number," said Johannes Ullrich, chief technology officer for the Internet Storm Centre, which collects firewall logs from thousands of volunteers in order to gauge which digital threats are spreading on the Internet.
[April 5, 2004, 10:05]
Analysts Downplay Cisco Code Leak
News I don't think it is too worrisome," said Johannes Ullrich, chief technology officer of the Internet Storm Centre, an online service that monitors threats on the Internet. Comparing the leak with Microsoft's loss of its code earlier this year...
[May 18, 2004, 8:20]
Windows 'piracy' Checks Rounded Again
News Johannes Ullrich, the chief research officer at Internet Storm Center, said the JavaScript bypass method does not pose a security threat. For users who purchase computers with Windows preinstalled, Ullrich noted, some may be surprised to find that...
[August 1, 2005, 12:40]
Dangerous Exploit Released For Old IE Hole
News The vulnerability itself has been known about for a while, but it was only a problem for a denial-of-service attack that would sometimes cause IE to crash," said Johannes Ullrich, chief research officer for the SANS Institute.
[November 22, 2005, 8:45]
Worms Target Lazy Passwords
News The worm caused a spike in traffic on Saturday and Sunday, but after the weekend had begun to level off, said Johannes Ullrich, chief technology officer for the Internet Storm Center, a service that tracks attacks.
[March 11, 2003, 8:42]
Black Hat Cisco Router Flaw Finally Revealed
News The scope of the second flaw explains why Cisco went through great lengths to keep it under wraps, said Johannes Ullrich, chief research officer at the SANS Institute. Users should update as soon as possible, Ullrich said.
[November 3, 2005, 8:35]
Al-Jazeera Suffers DoS Attack
News Johannes Ullrich, chief technical officer of the SANS Institute's Internet Storm Centre, an Internet health monitoring organisation, says that it's most likely the case. Ullrich says that denial of service machines set up on cable user networks...
[March 27, 2003, 14:09]
