Severe IE vulnerability threatens Windows XP users
News of a newly discovered bug in VBScript and Windows Help files in Internet Explorer that could allow a remote attacker to run an arbitrary command has reached Microsoft on …
Zeljka Zorz
Waledac disruption only the beginning, says Microsoft
In the wake of the news regarding Microsoft’s disruption of Waledac botnet’s links between its command and control centers and the infected zombie computers by …
Fake Virustotal serves malware
The reputation of VirusTotal, the well-known site that allows you to check if a suspicious file is malicious or not, is bound to be somewhat affected by the emergence of a …
Relentlessly annoying banking Trojan
The majority of banking trojans prefers to hide in the deepest recesses of your computer and silently steal your login credentials. But CA’s researchers recently came …
SQL injection attack show-and-tell
SQL injection has, for a long time now, found its way to the top places of the list of favorite attack vectors of cyber criminals. Its popularity is, without a doubt, due to …
Microsoft cripples the Waledac botnet
A few days ago, Microsoft has requested and was granted a temporary restraining order that resulted in the takedown of 273 Internet domains that are believed to belong to …
Pros and cons of biometric authentication
In theory, biometrics are a great way to authenticate a user: it’s impossible to lose your fingerprint (barring the most gruesome of developments), you can’t …
The future doesn’t look bright for Google in China
Google’s announcement that it will leave China if the censoring of their search results continues seems not to have affected the Chinese government much. They have not …
A closer look at Comodo Dragon 1.0.0.5
Comodo Dragon is a recently released free Internet browser constructed on the open source Chromium Project browser. The installation process is simple and fast. You will be …
Cryptome.org shut down for exposing MS surveillance guide
Cryptome, the whistleblower site that serves as a repository for “documents for publication that are prohibited by governments worldwide, in particular material on …
SEO poisoning reaches a new level
To improve the chances of installing their malware on random computers, scareware peddlers have decided to set up more that 60 websites that contain hundreds of possible …
End users are the main targets of online attacks
A report about the state of the Web by Zscaler indicates that cyber criminals have transferred the focus of their attacks from web and email servers to end user systems. Their …
