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Microsoft has reported sightings of exploitation of the recent vulnerability in IE7 on various porn sites. This isn’t really bad news, since no one looks at such improper things on the Internet, right? According to an article posted late saturday night on Microsoft’s Threat Research Blog, approximately .2% of all worldwide users have been [...] After December’s Patch Tuesday, yet another vulnerability surfaces, this time targeting one of the Microsoft’s more usual members: WordPad. Trend Micro detects this vulnerability as TROJ_MCWORDP.A. The exploit works by using a specially-crafted .DOC, .WRI, or .RTF file to take advantage of the WordPad vulnerability, thereby causing the said application to crash. This crash [...] Malware hunters at Websense Security Labs have discovered legitimate Google sponsored links being used to plant scareware programs (rogue anti-virus applications) on the computers of Windows users. In a blow-by-blow description of the rogueware attack, Websense researcher Elad Sharf shows how an innocent Google search for the Winrar file archiver and data compression utility [...] Everyone who knows anything about the Internet knows it’s all about social networking nowadays. So it really shouldn’t be a surprise that social engineering actively being exploited by cybercriminals to spread malware. Spammed email messages supposedly from the social networking website hi5, reported to have 70 million registered members, inform users that they received a [...] |
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