Screenshot of YouTube video leads to DoS-capable worm
A screenshot of a YouTube video embedded with a link is the gateway to a malicious site where a worm with DoS capabilities is distributed, TrendLabs reports. The innocent …
Botnets battling for digital real estate
April saw high activity from multiple botnets, namely Gumblar and Sasfis, according to a report by Fortinet. While Gumblar remained in the No. 1 position in Fortinet’s …
Rogue software details: RST Antivirus 2010
RST Antivirus 2010 is a rogue security application. In order to remove it, find out what files and registry entries to look for below. Known system changes: Files …
Wireshark 1.2.8 released
Wireshark is a popular network protocol analyzer. It is used for troubleshooting, analysis, development, and education. The following bugs have been fixed: HTTP parser limits …
Suricata: Network intrusion detection and prevention engine
Suricata is a network intrusion detection and prevention engine developed by the Open Information Security Foundation and its supporting vendors. The engine is multi-threaded …
Firewall Builder 4.0 released
Firewall Builder helps you write and manage configuration for your firewalls. It writes iptables commands, pf.conf file, Cisco router access lists or PIX configuration for …
Deleting yourself from the Web
If there is one positive thing that the recent Facebook privacy changes have brought, it is a raised awareness about the fact that we ourselves are the best guardians of our …
Canadian Pharmacy no longer top spammed brand
According to the statistics by M86 Security Labs, Canadian Pharmacy – the long-standing champion of spammed affiliate brands – made way for the new reigning king: …
Phishers want your Apple gift card
Apple has received a lot of attention lately: the lost iPhone, the Apple vs Adobe bickering about Flash, but it was mostly the release of the iPad and its amazing popularity …
Security risks of web application programming languages
A new WhiteHat report examined the security of specific programming languages. Until now, no other website security study has provided detailed research on how programming …
Facebook security bug lets you eavesdrop on your friends’ chats
On Wednesday morning, a Facebook security flaw allowed users for a few hours to get a glimpse at their friends’ private chats and their their latest pending …
Freeware detects performance loss across the network
Disk Performance Analyzer for Networks 3.0 (DPAN) is a free utility that detects and reports severe fragmentation-related performance loss across the network, all from one …