Apple: Mac users should run multiple anti-virus

Apple: Mac users should run multiple anti-virus Posted by Ryan Naraine @ 3:09 pm Categories: Zero-day attacks, Apple, Spam and Phishing, Spyware and Adware, Viruses and Worms, Data theft, Arbitrary Code Execution, Anti Virus, Malware Tags: Apple Macintosh, Antivirus, Malware, Apple Inc., Virus, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Security, Desktops One [...]

IT expert executed in Iran

Following Pakistan’s recently introduced “Prevention of Electronic Crimes Ordinance 2008” according to which potential cyberterrorists would face the death penalty, a neighboring country, Iran, has recently executed an IT expert who confessed of being an Israeli spy for at least three years. After being recruited by Mossad during a business trip, Ali Ashtari, a [...]

Breaking the zero-day habit

* Ryan Naraine is traveling. Guest editorial by Mike Rothman Given that this blog is called “Zero Day,” I think it’s fitting that I’m calling for most security professionals to ignore most of what comes out of the security research community. To be clear, I have only the utmost respect for folks that do [...]

‘Tis the Season to Stay Secure

Cyber criminals use different social engineering techniques to lure victims into performing activities that they would not normally do, like clicking links in spammed messages, downloading files, or filling out forms with confidential personal information. These usually translate to profit for the cyber criminals, who are expected to attempt to exploit the holiday season as [...]

Vendor claims Acrobat 9 passwords easier to crack than ever

Password recovery software vendor ElcomSoft claims that the password verification mechanism in the new Adobe Acrobat 9 is weaker than the one used in the previous version of Adobe’s product, thereby allowing them to improve the brute forcing speed a hundred times faster. The company’s claim comes right after Adobe’s implementation of 256-bit encryption in [...]