October 2008 MS Patch Tuesday

This month’s Patch Tuesday was prematurely ushered in by a spam attack purporting to carry MS Updates. Don’t be fooled, though, we have found the said spam to carry a backdoor (BKDR_HAXDOOR.MX), and has nothing to do with Microsoft’s official release. The October 2008 MS Patch Tuesday addresses 20 vulnerabilities, with 4 bulletins marked [...]

AVG Internet Security 7.5.549 Build 1382

Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware, Anti-Spam & Firewall – Comprehensive protection from the world’s most trusted security company – AVG could just be one of the most generous companies in the world! AVG Internet Security ensure complete security protection against all of the most serious Internet threats, including viruses, worms, trojans, spyware, adware, hackers and spam. AVG [...]

Adobe ships fix for clickjacking, clipboard hijack threats

Adobe has released Flash Player 10 (Techmeme discussion) with a chock-full of major security improvements, including patches and mitigation for at least five serious security vulnerabilities. The vulnerabilities covered with Flash Player 10 could allow an attacker to bypass the software’s security controls, Adobe warned. From Adobe’s advisory:

Potential vulnerabilities have been identified [...]

Belated Odinga Campaign

First detected in 2007, the WORM_VOTERAI family, which turned up during the presidential election season in Kenya that year, seems to be making a comeback in time for the US elections this year via WORM_VOTERAI.N. This worm, notable for dropping the following incomplete image file of Raila Odinga, has registered several infection counts in North [...]