Connect Dev Notes: 21 August 2013
Updates deployed to the Connect production servers as a result of the code sprint that ended 20 August 2013.User Facing: DesktopEnhanced the RSS Builder to give users the ability to specify a target...
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Creating Shared Value with the New York City Housing Authority
According to NYU’s Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy, in 2011 31 percent of New York residents paid 50 percent or more of their income in rent and utilities. Yesterday Symantec announced a...
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Using Reserved Words with the Web Service Generator in Workflow
When creating a set of new components based off the Web Service Caller Generator (as shown below),Errors can occur if, on the last page of the generator (as shown below), component properties are named...
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Instascam: Instagram para PC lidera pesquisa de Scam
O Instagram – rede social para compartilhar fotos e vídeos, adquirido pelo Facebook – é alvo de Spam e golpes digitais. Essa semana, foi compartilhado um anúncio em in-stream para um programa chamado...
View ArticleTask Priority Does Not Match Incident Priority on Initial Incident Creation
In Servicedesk 7.5 Mp1 - all builds, on initial incident creation, the priority of the task shown in the process view page does not match the priority of the inicident. This can also be seen by a...
View ArticleZeroAccess、P2P プロトコルを変更して耐性を強化
ZeroAccessは、これまでも常に P2P プロトコルを使って侵入先のコンピュータに悪質なペイロードを拡散してきました。P2P プロトコルを使うと、悪質なペイロードを配布する際に中央のコマンド & コントロール（C&C）サーバーを管理する必要がなくなるからです。2011 年には、ZeroAccess の P2P プロトコルは TCP 上で通信されていましたが、2012 年の第 2...
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Windows のログイン情報を変更する中国語のランサムウェア
ランサムウェアは全世界で問題になっていますが、中国語で書かれたものはあまり例がありません。最近、シマンテックセキュリティレスポンスは新しいタイプの Ransomlock...
View ArticleProblems with the Servicedesk 7.5 Resolve/Close Multiple Incidents Application
Servicedesk 7.2 Sp2 and 7.5 have a handy built in tool that allows for the bulk closure of incident tickets. It was discovered, however, that this tools ability to remove incidents from the selection...
View ArticlePassthough Authentication Is Not Working For Servicedesk Resolve/Close...
A new issue was discovered, such that, when using a Windows 7 client computer, using running IE9, when attempting to access an HTTPS-configured ServiceDesk 7.5 MP1 server, the client computer won't...
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Changes Afoot for Changeup
We have been fighting the W32.Changeup family of worms for a long time and have written about it many times Figure 1. W32.Changeup prevalence One characteristic of W32.Changeup is that it is written in...
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Changeup に起きた変化
シマンテックは長い間、W32.Changeupシリーズのワームに対する取り組みを続けており、このブログでも今までに何度となくお伝えしてきました（参照 1、参照 2）。 図 1. W32.Changeup.C の発生状況 W32.Changeup は Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0...
View Article{CWoC} Patch trending sample site now available!
In case you do follow me on Connect you will have notice that I came out from hibernation in the past couple of week (no, I am not living in the Southern hemispherer - so yes, I came out of the cave...
View ArticleIf you're going to San Francisco, Symantec will see you at VMworld.
Symantec will be an active sponsor at this week's VMworld conference in San Francisco with several booth demonstrations, technical presentations and even some fun with a customer event. I hope to see...
View ArticleArchiving Unread Items in Enterprise Vault
When I'm setting up demo systems I almost always select the archiving option related to archiving 'unread items'. This is because in a demo or test environment you probably want everything to get...
View ArticleTesting to get what you want!
Many times penetration tests are conducted because they are required because of policy or for compliance that may be for an industry or legal requirement. This is all well and good and when issues...
View ArticleSo about this VMworld thing in San Francisco this week...
So do to some horrific connectivity issues, what was supposed to be yesterday's introductory VMworld blog has become today's introductory VMworld blog. Please timeshift your reading accordingly......
View ArticleCloud Security - Transparency is a must!
Now, more than ever, is it important to demand that your cloud services provider provides complete transparency regarding the security and compliance measures they use and have in place to protect your...
View ArticleVirtual Tape Library (VTL) – What, Why & Otherwise
Virtual Tape Library (VTL) is software that completely emulates a standard library, the introduction of virtual tape is seamless and transparent to existing tape backup/recovery applications. It uses...
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Francophoned – A Sophisticated Social Engineering Attack
In April 2013, the administrative assistant to a vice president at a French-based multinational company received an email referencing an invoice hosted on a popular file sharing service. A few minutes...
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