Microsoft today dropped a monster Patch Tuesday release with fixes for at least 28 vulnerabilities affecting Windows, Office, Internet Explorer, Visual Basic Active Controls and Windows Media Player. Of the 28 flaws, 23 carry a “critical” rating, meaning they could be used to launch remote code execution attacks with minimal user action. It is [...]
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The Center for Strategic and International Studies, a D.C. based think tank, has released their recommendations for a national cybersecurity policy for the incoming presidential administration. The policy guidelines, if implemented, will have a significant impact on the software landscape that reaches far beyond the borders of federal employment and purchasing. The majority of [...] It was only a matter of time for spam volume to sky rocket again, despite McColo’s shutdown in November. Two weeks after the cybercrime-friendly ISP got disconnected from the Internet, spam volumes are increasing once again with the main botnets using it as a command and control location regaining their strength by migrating to [...] The competition for dominance among Web browsers continues to escalate, and this point is not lost on cyber criminals who are always on the lookout for any possible method to infect more victims in order to achieve their goals. Trend Micro has received reports that Mozilla Firefox has recently been targeted by malware we detect [...] Malicious hackers are exploiting a zero-day flaw in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser to launch a new wave of drive-by downloads, according to a warning from security researchers. The Web attacks, first reported by Bob McMillan, takes aim at users running IE 7 on Windows XP SP2 and includes the use of a Trojan downloader that [...] |
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