Can you find five differences between these two sites? Wordpresz.org may indeed look like WordPress.org, but the 2.6.4 release it’s distributing is on purposely backdoored in order to steal the content of cookies from those who have installed it, potentially leading to to hijacking of their WordPress blogging platforms for malicious purposes. Not only is [...]
Now that the race to the US presidency has ended, where Barack Obama won by a landslide, the race for new Web threats related to his victory has now begun.
Trend Micro Research Manager Ivan Macalintal reports of spam messages that are currently being circulated to spread malware, within hours after Obama delivered his acceptance speech. [...]
Rob McMillan at IDG has the scoop on new research that shows it’s possible to partially crack the WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) encryption standard.
Full details of the theoretical attack is not yet known but McMillan reports that two security researchers — Erik Tews and Martin Beck — plan to discuss the issue at next week’s [...]
Microsoft is planning a small Patch Tuesday this month — just two bulletins affecting Windows and Office users.
According to the company’s advance notice mechanism, one of the two bulletins will be rated “critical” and will address flaws that could lead to remote code execution attacks. The second update, rated “important,” applies to all versions [...]
Adobe has slapped another band-aid on its ever-present Flash Player to cover at least six documented security vulnerabilities that could expose users to a wide range of hacker attacks.
The patch, rated “critical” by Adobe, affects Flash Player 9.0.124.0 on all platforms. Adobe is recommending that users upgrade immediately to Flash Player 10.
The skinny on the [...]
