PHP 5.2.7 removed from distribution over security bug

The open-source PHP Group has removed PHP version 5.2.7 from distribution because of a security bug that affects certain configurations. According to a notice from the Apache-backed project,  PHP users should use version 5.26 until PHP 5.2.8 is released with a fix for this issue. Due to a security bug found in the PHP [...]

Most Abused Infection Vector

We gathered malware data from January to November 2008 to give us an idea of just how dangerous surfing the Internet is. We analyzed the arrival methods of the top 100 malware infecting the most number of systems for the said period and came up with the following statistics:

Figure 1. Infection Vectors of [...]