Can Apple Keep Malware Away?

Apple’s suggestion to Mac users to install antivirus programs on their systems has been creating buzz in the online community. This is despite the fact that Apple initially pushed the same notion six years ago, and also echoed the same concern last year. The matter surprised those who’ve heard of such news just recently, [...]

Let’s be smart about patching databases

* Ryan Naraine is traveling. Guest editorial by Slavik Markovich Every quarter, around the time of the Oracle Critical Patch Update (CPU) or the Microsoft “Patch Tuesday,” rituals take place – some behind closed doors, others in the media. Web sites report of the latest vulnerabilities, so-called experts (myself included) provide analysis of the [...]

Password stealing malware masquerades as Firefox add-on

Malware researchers at BitDefender are reporting on a newly discovered malware (Trojan.PWS.ChromeInject.B) that when once dropped in Firefox’s add-ons directory starts operating as such, and attempts to steal accounting data from a predefined list of over a hundred E-banking sites. Once the accounting data is obtained, it’s forwarded to a free web space hosting [...]

Secunia: Less than 2% of Windows PCs fully patched

It’s long been established that the unpatched state of the Windows monoculture is the reason we are facing a malware epidemic. Yet, the latest vulnerability patching statistics from Secunia’s PSI (Personal Software Inspector) is a major eye-opener for everyone tracking the security of the Windows ecosystem.  According to data culled from 20,000 users of the [...]

Drexel students hijack online poll, get underwear

A few weeks ago I saw that students at my alma mater organized a small botnet to push Drexel to the front of the queue for Victoria’s Secret’s line of university branded underwear. It took a brief remark from a blog I frequent to make me realize that there is actually a small computer [...]

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