Massive comment spam attack on Digg.com leads to malware

According to PandaSecurity, the social news site Digg.com is among the very latest Web 2.0 services to be targeted by cybecriminals on their way to acquire legitimate traffic to their malware serving domains. The ongoing attack is far more widespread the originally stated, with +500,000 bogus comments leading to 15 currently active malware domains, [...]

Pwn2Own hacker contest targets browsers, smart phones

After two straight years of taking dead aim at Macbooks and Windows-powered machines, hackers at this year’s CanSecWest conference will have shiny new targets:  Web browsers and mobile phones. According to CanSecWest organisers, there will be two separate Pwn2Own competitions this year — one pitting hackers against IE8, Firefox 3 and Safari and another [...]

Inside Microsoft’s February patch batch

Guest post by Eric Schultze

It’s a seemingly light batch of patches this month, trailing an even lighter, single patch release in January.  Two critical items were released — including patches for Internet Explorer 7 and Microsoft Exchange Server.  Additionally, two “important” items were released — for Microsoft SQL Server and Visio. MS09-002 is [...]

AVG Internet Security 8.0 Build 234a1426

AVG Internet Security ensure complete security protection against all of the most serious Internet threats including viruses worms trojans spyware adware hackers and spam AVG Internet Security 7 5 includes the most recent anti virus anti spyware anti spam and firewall technologies with reliable automatic updates while consuming a low level of computer resources for [...]

VIRUX Cases Escalate

There are an increasing number of reports from several countries about a complex file infector with several infection routines. Arriving via the Internet, this new strain bypasses the Windows Firewall, infects using various infection types and using more than one layer of encryption. The US seems to be the most affected amongst all other regions [...]