For Microsoft Windows users, next week’s Patch Tuesday will be somewhat hectic.
The Redmond, Wash. software maker plans to release a total of nine bulletins to patch a wide range of serious vulnerabilities affecting Windows, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft ISA Server, Microsoft BizTalk Server and the .Net Framework.
Five of the bulletins will be rated [...]
August 6th, 2009 Posted by Ryan Naraine @ 9:46 amCategories:Adobe, Anti Virus, Arbitrary Code Execution, Botnets, Browsers, Data theft, Denial of Service (DoS), Exploit code, Facebook, Flash, Malware, Punditocracy, Responsible disclosure, Social Networking Applications, Spam and Phishing, Viruses and Worms, Vulnerability research, Web 2.0Tags:Kaspersky Lab, DOS, Twitter, Attack, Koobface, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Ryan NarainePopular microblogging servic
An ongoing blackhat SEO (search engine optimization) campaign is actively hijacking a variety of U.S Federal Forms keywords in an attempt to serve the Personal Antivirus (Trojan.Win32.FakeXPA) scareware.
Due to the automated and sophisticated PageRank boosting tools cybercriminals use in these campaigns, the hijacked keywords are always popping-up within the first ten to twenty search results [...]
A security research outfit has issued a warning for several critical vulnerabilities in popular XML libraries used by a wide range of software vendors.
The flaws, discovered earlier this year by Codenomicon, affect a wide range of technology products, including servers and server applications, workstations and end user applications, network devices, embedded systems and mobile devices. [...]
A year after its first discovery, Koobface is still generating a lot of noise, no thanks to its high activity level over the past several weeks. But one year is a long time for a malware to stay alive. Storm didn’t make it out of its first year. Waledac has been around for [...]
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