Is your Java up to date?

For a long time, the experience of patching Sun’s Java software has been less than pleasant. The updates were huge and time consuming, the patching instructions were a mess and, even worse, Sun never removed older, vulnerable versions from the patched machine. Now it appears that things have been fixed. For starters, the company [...]

RapidShare Users Gets Phished

The Trend Micro Content Security team has discovered a phishing attack targeting users of the German-owned file-hosting website, RapidShare. Aside from their free hosting service, the website also offers a benefit for premium members who opt to pay a certain fee through PayPal, or by means of RapidShare authorized resellers. This nuance was not [...]

Orkut Users Targeted in Malware Campaign

Orkut is a Google-owned social networking service with most users located in Brazil and India. It recently ranked 21st in Compete.com’s top 25 social networking sites, with more than 5 million monthly visits in January of 2009. Now, much like the other social networking site in the said list, Orkut is now also being [...]

WALEDAC Spreads More Malware Love

Along with the flowers, heart-shaped boxes of chocolates, and other sundry Valentine’s Day gifts that come rolling in at this time of the year, there are always malware attacks attempting to take advantage of the holiday. A recently reported case of malware-related spam contains a short Valentine’s message — and with an embedded URL that [...]