Adobe Acrobat/Reader getIcon() Vuln Exploit in the Wild

Cyber criminals have now updated their PDF exploits to include the getIcon() vulnerability (CVE-2009-0927). We currently detect this as TROJ_PIDIEF.OE. As usual, we highly encourage users to update now to the latest versions of Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader (if you haven’t yet). Reading the security advisory by Adobe closely, we see that this [...]

Conficker botnet stirs, with a scareware business model

April 9th, 2009 Posted by Ryan Naraine @ 8:36 amCategories:Anti Virus, Arbitrary Code Execution, Botnets, Browsers, Data theft, Denial of Service (DoS), Exploit code, Malware, Microsoft, Passwords, Patch Watch, Pen testing, Rootkits, Spam and Phishing, Spyware and Adware, Viruses and WormsTags:Antivirus, Conficker, Gostev, Waledac, Viruses And Worms, Security, Ryan NaraineThe Conficker botnet has stirred [...]

97% OF ALL EMAIL IS SPAM

WHAT??? 97% of all email sent and received is spam?? Now that I think about it, that’s pretty accurate. Here is a quote from the article. In Microsoft’s latest biannual report on the state of computer security, the company says that in the second half of 2008, a full 97.3 percent of email traffic [...]