October’s Patch Tuesday is upon us with 11 new updates for various Microsoft products including Active Directory, Internet Explorer and Excel. Tuesday is also a full moon, so should be an interesting day. Apple users too have some patching to do as the company released a new wide-ranging Mac OS X update last week. [...]
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In a recently conducted comparative review, Danish security company Secunia, tested the detection rate of 12 different Internet Security Suites against 300 exploits (144 malicious files and 156 malicious web pages) affecting popular end user applications, to find that even the top performer in the test is in fact performing poorly in general. Their [...] In the past weeks we have blogged about the scam related to faked bank certificates for Wachovia, Bradesco and Merrill Lynch. All those attacks attempted to play with fear regarding online security, in good combination with the international bank crisis. Yesterday we’ve noticed that this kind of spam arrived German mailboxes – and of [...] Malicious attackers are once again taking advantage of event-based social engineering attacks, and are currently mass mailing fake notifications for Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday, attaching a copy of Trojan.Backdoor.Haxdoor, next to a legitimately looking PGP signature which is, of course, fake too :“We received some questions from customers about an e-mail that’s circulating that claims to [...] PC Tools Internet Security is an all-in-one security suite featuring their award-winning anti-spyware, anti-virus, firewall and spam protection. It detects, removes and blocks all types of spyware, adware, viruses, Trojans, worms, keyloggers and other online threats. It’s frequent updates ensure that you are always protected against the latest known threats. PC Tools Internet Security [...] |
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