Error Gave F.B.I. Unauthorized Access to E-Mail
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As surveillance has increased, violations of wiretap law have become a regular if little-noticed occurrence.
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The presidential campaign season is underway, so be careful what you do and say in the federal workplace -- especially in an e-mail.
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By Eric Berkman  E-mail conversations between an employee and his lawyer, conducted via the employee's private, Web-based e-mail account but from a company-issued computer, were protected by the attorney- client privilege, a Massachusetts Superior Court judge has ruled.
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QUESTION: What is the best approach to protecting me from ID theft and related activities? Will a software package work best, or must I go to a hardware firewall?
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Intel may have lost internal e-mails it is required to present to the court.
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Ever since I discovered I could check AOL e-mail accounts using a regular Internet browser, I've found little use for the company's all-in-one software package.
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Microsoft's IE (Internet Explorer) browser has an unpatched vulnerability that could let hackers hijack, then access, Google Gmail accounts, a California security company warned Monday.IE, said Santa Clara-based Cenzic in an alert issued Monday, contains an unspecified cached files bug that, when combined with a cross-site request forgery flaw in the Web-based e-mail service, exposes Gmail account sign-ons and lets others access those accounts and any messages or file attachments there.Although not a bug that can be leveraged remotely -- an attacker must have local, physical access to the PC -- as Cenzic pointed out in its alert, there are scenarios where that's not a limitation. "These vulnerabilities could be exploited such that all users of a shared computer who use Internet Explorer and share a user account -- a common practice at computer kiosks in a library or Internet cafe -- could be vulnerable," said Cenzic.Gmail contributes to the overall vulnerability because its URLs display attachments when viewed using the "View Source" command, the warning went on. IE, however, sports "improper use of caching directives [and] incorrect access checks on cached Internet Explorer files."Together, the bugs could conceivably let someone at a public PC hijack any Gmail log-on credentials that had been entered on the machine since the IE cache had last been purged. IE deletes the contents of its cache only as new files are added -- and the oldest are deleted -- or when the user explicitly instructs the browser to clear the cache using the "Delete Browsing History" command.Microsoft denied that IE even has a bug. "Microsoft has thoroughly investigated the claim and found that this is not a product vulnerability," said a company spokesman Tuesday morning. "In the scenario in question, an attacker would need authenticated access to the system in order to modify files located in the cache. With that level of access, an attacker could install malicious programs that would have more impact than the scenarios described."While true, that did not address Cenzic's scenario; by design, public PCs such as those in libraries, schools or Web cafes do not require authentication to access. Microsoft was not available for clarification.Google did not immediately respond to questions about Gmail's part in the threat
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Microsoft is investigating complaints from users that a security update issued last week for the Internet Explorer browser is preventing some people from getting onto the Web.
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(InfoWorld) - Usernames and passwords for more than 100 e-mail accounts at embassies and governments worldwide have been posted online. Using the information, anyone can access the accounts that have been compromised. Computer Sweden Â has verified the posted information and spoken to the person who posted them. The posted information includes names of the embassies and governments, addresses to e-mail servers, usernames and passwords. Among the organizations on the list are the foreign ministry of Iran, the Kazakh and Indian embassies in the U.S. and the Russian embassy in Sweden. Freelance security consultant Dan Egerstad posted the information. He spoke openly about the leak when Computer Sweden contacted him. "I did an experiment and came across the information by accident," he said. Egerstad says he never used the information to log in to any of the compromised accounts in order not to break any laws. Computer Sweden confirmed that the login details for at least one of the accounts is correct. Egerstad forwarded an e-mail sent on Aug. 20 by an employee at the Swedish royal court to the Russian embassy. The person who sent the e-mail, in which she declines an invitation to the Russian embassy, has confirmed that she sent the e-mail. "Yes, that is right. We did decline the invitation. As far as I can remember I did send the e-mail," she said. Computer Sweden has not been able to confirm the authenticity of any of the other information that has been posted. "When something like this happens you usually contact people and ask them to fix it. But in this case it felt too big for that, calling to other countries," Egerstad said. Of the compromised accounts, 10 belong to the Kazakh embassy in Russia./p> Around 40 belong to Uzbeki embassies and consulates around the world. Login details for e-mail accounts at the U.K. visa office in Nepal were also posted. Login details for the foreign ministry of Iran, the Kazakh and Indian embassies in the U.S. and the Russian embassy in Sweden were also posted. "I hope this makes them take action. Hopefully, faster than ever before, and I hope they become a bit more aware of security issues," Dan Egerstad says. Computer Sweden has contacted both the Russian and Indian embassies in Stockholm for comment. The Russian embassy confirmed the leaks and says that logins have now been changed. The Indian embassy declined to confirm the information and give comment. Computer Sweden has not published where the login details can be found. The information in this story has been verified by Computer Sweden without using any of the published login details. Computer Sweden is an InfoWorld affiliate.
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Botnet surprise A critical vulnerability has been identified in Adobe's Acrobat and Reader software which affects Internet Explorer users.â¦
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I keep getting a message that says âCritical error message â Registry damaged and corrupted.â After years of using Windows, Iâve never heard of this. Is this a virus?
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GMail changed many things for me. I started using webmail again. Redirected most of my pop mail ids to GMail for easy accessibility from any computer.
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The e-mail appeared to be a routine correspondence between two friends. "Check this out!" it read, then listed a Web address.
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Don't bet on getting it back The FBI has frozen access to Neteller accounts as part of its ongoing investigation into the company.â¦
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A bug in Microsoft's Windows Live OneCare security suite has been causing users' e-mail to vanish from Outlook and Outlook Express, Microsoft confirmed. A fix is due out next week.
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(InfoWorld) - A critical bug in the Internet Explorer (IE) browser also affects users of the Outlook 2003 e-mail client, making it much more serious than previously thought. The vulnerability can be triggered when IE or Outlook 2003 processes Web-based graphics code written in the Vector Markup Language (VML). It wasÂ first reported Monday by researchers at Sunbelt Software Inc. Attackers have not yet begun exploiting the e-mail attack, but aÂ handful of Web sitesÂ now serve the code, and hackers have publicly posted software that exploits the vulnerability. Initially, researchers thought that only Internet Explorer was vulnerable to attacks that exploited this flaw, but Sunbelt has now concluded that Outlook 2003 users are also at risk. That's because researchers have discovered a way to execute malicious code without using scripting code, which would normally be blocked by Outlook. By embedding a machine-language "shellcode" program in the VML tags, researchers have been able run unauthorized software on systems running the latest version of Outlook 2003. This has raised concerns because it means that some victims could have their PCs compromised with little or no user action. To attack Internet Explorer, criminals would first need to trick users into visiting a malicious Web site. But with an Outlook attack, it becomes much easier to target a victim. "All you have to do is send an HTML e-mail and the user is hosed," said Eric Sites, Sunbelt's vice president of research and development. Researchers at VeriSign Inc's iDefense unit have also confirmed that some configurations of Outlook will launch the code with no user action, said Ken Dunham, the director of the iDefense Rapid Response Team. Users who have Outlook's Reading Pane enabled to read messages in HTML are particularly vulnerable to this attack, Dunham said. Outlook Express users do not appear to be at risk, said Sites. Microsoft is advising users who want to protect themselves to set Outlook to read e-mail messages in plain text format. Instructions describing how to do this can beÂ found here. Microsoft's advisory on the VML issue can beÂ found here. Sunbelt has posted aÂ workaround for the vulnerability. According to one researcher, Outlook 2003 should not be rendering VML code automatically, but the product appears to be vulnerable due to a second bug in Microsoft's software. "Some versions of Outlook will render VML despite the fact that they shouldn't," said Russ Cooper, a senior information security analyst with Cybertrust Inc. "We should be raking Microsoft over the coals for this." Sites agreed that "there seems to be a bug in the latest version of Outlook." Microsoft executives were not immediately available to comment for this story. Microsoft plans to patch the VML problem as part of its next set of security patches, due Oct. 10, but Sites believes that hackers may force the software vendor to rush out an early fix. "I think it will get bad enough that they will have to," he said. Â
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Worried about spyware? spam? "spim"? AOL wants to set your mind at rest. Also: Putting patches in place.