Web surfers beware! A sophisticated hacking scheme seen early last year is affecting an increasing number of Web servers, including one owned by a major online advertising company, the chief technology officer of Finjan Software said Monday. It appears that a single gang is behind the attacks, since the malicious software it spreads is storing […]
A new Trojan program is targeting unwitting users’ bank data by intercepting account information before it is encrypted and sending it to a central attacker database.
PC World says: “The Trojan, dubbed Trojan.Silentbanker by security software company Symantec, can intercept online banking transactions that normally are well guarded by two-factor authentication procedures. During a banking transaction, […]
PC Magazine reports: “Norton Internet Security 2008 is good at a lot of things, but blocking spam isn’t one of them. Antispam isn’t even included by default–you have to install a separate add-on pack that hasn’t changed much since NIS 2007. Some users who rely on NIS for spam protection bolster its meager spam-fighting skills […]
If you think that the latest security apps and updates afford complete and impenetrable protection against malware attacks, think again. Today’s malware developers use dedicated test labs and other increasingly professional techniques to improve their chances of infecting your computer. And the techniques they employ to outpace security software makers appear to be working.
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Users tinkering with their Windows Home Servers (WHS) over the holiday weekend might have uncovered a nasty surprise in the form of a file corruption, according to Microsoft. The software giant released a document last week that said users saving information on certain programs were running into problems.
“A few people in the Community Forums have […]
Apple has finally released a new security patch for QuickTime, its eighth update this year for the media player software. The update addresses three critical security holes in QuickTime, including a vulnerability that has been used in attacks by online criminals. And they say Microsoft is sloppy with software.
The most critical of the flaws […]
Security researchers warn that malicious code targeting an unpatched software bug in Apple Inc.’s QuickTime has gone public, and added that in-the-wild attacks against systems running Windows XP and Vista are probably not far behind. There was no word as of Sunday whether the Mac OS X versions of the media player are also […]
We all know that retailers will be ready for Black Friday but so are hackers poised to launch a slew of Web-based attacks against consumers. Why should you be on alert? Your money and personal information could be at risk.
“The holiday season in general is a huge time for hackers … [and] Black Friday is […]
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