Help-Net Security recently published an interview with Greg Hoglund, CEO and Founder of HBGary, in which he speaks of the challenges and implications of malware analysis.
The Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (SIR) for the first half of 2009 (January to June) reports less new vulnerabilities but almost twice as much Internet worm infections as during the second half of 2008.
Zero Day Initiative Advisory 12-018 - This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Symantec PCAnywhere. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The flaw exists within the awhost32 component which is used when handling incoming connections. This process listens on TCP port 5631. When handling an authentication request the process copies the user supplied username unsafely to a fixed-length buffer of size 0x108. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code under the context of the SYSTEM account.
The WBR-1310 suffers from an authentication bypass vulnerability that can be exploited by remote
attackers to change administrative settings. Note that this vulnerability can be exploited via CSRF even
if remote administration is disabled.