Asking for help in Windows could lead to more trouble. A newly discovered vulnerability in Internet Explorer (IE) leverages the ability of a Visual Basic script to invoke a .HLP (Windows Help file format) file, which could give a remote attacker the ability to run arbitrary code on an affected system. Visual Basic uses [...]
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Text scams are increasingly becoming common again due to the forthcoming Philippine national and local elections, as political campaigns take to rampant text messaging for faster political mobilization. Earlier, I received a text message with the following content: May GOD bountifuly bles u & ur family. Have a blissful day Fr Frends of UNI-MAD [...] A new KOOBFACE variant is again making the rounds in the social-networking scene. According to Trend Micro researcher, Norman Ingal, the malware employs Facebook’s Private Message feature to proliferate. The threat arrives as a Facebook private message that does not bear a subject but contains a supposed link to a YouTube video. Taking a [...] Trend Micro recently came across a .PDF file sample that exploits a vulnerability that was discovered as early as mid-2009. The specially crafted .PDF file detected as TROJ_PIDIEF.SML contains malicious JavaScript in its code that uses the getAnnots() method to corrupt an affected system’s memory. It is interesting to note that its final payload is [...] Spammers are clearly becoming more and more creative as they try new ways to bypass our anti-spam filters. Just recently, we received a spammed message disguised as a spam quarantine notification message from a competitor. To the untrained eye, the email looks quite convincing. However, closer inspection of the message properties reveals that while the [...] |
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