Bogus alert from Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit carries malware
Malware peddlers are impersonating Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit to convince users to download a malicious attachment and run it on their computers, warns Sophos. The …
Microsoft to release seven bulletins next week
It is the beginning of March and Microsoft just published the Advance Notice for this month’s Patch Tuesday. We will get seven bulletins next week, affecting all …
Yahoo Mail accounts still hijacked daily
Email account hijacking has been a big problem for Yahoo Mail users since the beginning of the year, as a number of vulnerabilities have been discovered, shared online and …
Software protects passwords via host of dummy cursors
Virtual keyboards have helped thwart keyloggers, but some danger while entering passwords still remained, as some malware is also capable of taking screenshots or even record …
Most interesting products at RSA Conference 2013
The RSA Conference held each year in San Francisco is the biggest security event in the world, attracting tens of thousands visitors and (this year) over 350 exhibitors. Not …
Pwn2Own: IE, Firefox, Chrome and Java go down
The Pwn2Own competition is underway at the CanSecWest conference in Vancouver, and during the first day of competition Java, IE 10, Firefox and Chrome were successfully …
Abrupt drop in Symbian malware
In what may be the only good news for Symbian, F-Secure’s latest Mobile Threat Report shows a drop in malware targeting the declining platform to just four percent of …
SolarWinds Alert Central: Free tool for managing IT alerts
SolarWinds announced a first full-featured yet free product, SolarWinds Alert Central. IT pros can now centralize multi-system IT alerts in a single, consolidated view, give …
BitInstant back online following breach, Bitcoin theft
BitInstant, one of the online Bitcoin exchange services, has been down and unaccessible from Thursday evening to Monday due to a “sophisticated attack,” which …
Samsung Galaxy devices’ lock screen easily bypassed
This week revealed not one, but two security vulnerabilities that allow anyone to bypass the lock screen on a variety of Samsung Android smatphones. On Monday UK blogger …
Google reports on non-court ordered FBI data requests
With every new Transparency Report that Google releases biannually since 2009, new information about data requests from government agencies are included. This last report, …
Malicious Java applet uses stolen certificate to run automatically
A signed but malicious applet that will apparently fool even the latest Java 6 update has been discovered on a German online dictionary website infected by the g01pack exploit …
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