“There’s nothing like social networking sites to keep people connected and worms propagating — such as the all new and improved Net-Worm:W32/Koobface.CZ. A little infection equals a little comment in someone’s little site somewhere.” Read more…
Amazon and Samsumg have begun informing their consumers regarding the discovery of malware on the product’s installer disc (Samsung Frame Manager XP version 1.08). The infected installer disc is needed to use their product, the Samsung SPF-85H 8-Inch Digital Photo Frames w/ 1GB Internal Memory, as a USB monitor. Read more…
“A significant amount of e-card spam has flooded inboxes recently, taking advantage of the upcoming holiday season. Spam mails contain holiday greetings and a short message informing users that they have received an e-card from someone. Also in the email is an embedded URL link where the recipient can view or claim their e-card.” Read [...]
Microsoft has updated its advisory to include other version of Internet Explorer. So far we have only seen exploits for version 7, but Microsoft has included versions 5 and 6. To get more information please read the Microsoft advisory [click here]. We have created an instructional video presenting the exploit and what it could do. [...]
“Microsoft’s recent security updates fail to provide protection against a recently discovered zero-day vulnerability, which could provide opportunities for cyber criminals to compromise PCs. Several websites were found rigged with a malicious JavaScript detected by Trend Micro as JS_DLOAD.MD. This script exploits this zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer, through a Heap Spray on SDHTML. It [...]
“AV-Comparatives, the Austrian team of experts dedicated to antivirus tests acknowledged as a reference point in the field, has published the second part of the mid-year comparative, an ideal addendum to the one already released in the past September. This time the aim is to evaluate the antimalware tools effectiveness against unknown threats, in a [...]
“The Mac community this week has been debating an updated Knowledge Base article on Apple’s Web site that raised questions about the company’s stance on security. The recent update, which was pulled down on Tuesday, originally recommended that users install at least one antivirus software app. It was an odd statement given that Apple has [...]
“Yes, Linux is running on the iPhone. Yes, it’s only the first early port, but it’s the iPhone running the Linux OS, controlled with a USB keyboard running off the iPhone multi-purpose port thanks to the reverser engineering of Apple’s hardware drivers by iPhone Dev Team members.” Read more…