Less than 24 hours after Microsoft said it couldn't patch Windows to fix a systemic problem, attack code showed up to exploit the company's software. A security firm that's been researching the issue for the past nine months said 41 of Microsoft's own programs can be remotely exploited using DLL...
Fake browser warnings dupe users into downloading ‘scareware’!
Fake Browser "Scareware" Scam Scammers are spoofing the anti-malware warnings of popular browsers to dupe Windows users into downloading fake security software, Symantec said Monday. According to the FBI, rogue security makers have made at least $150 million by duping the public! Little wonder, then, that the fake security software...
Up to Five Million Web Sites Serving Up Malware.
As many as five million Web sites hosted by Network Solutions have been serving up malware, probably for several months. "This is one of the biggest infections for drive-by download attacks that I've seen," said Wayne Huang, co-founder and CTO of Santa Clara, Calif.-based Armorize Technologies, a Web application security...
Security secrets that might help you thwart the bad guys.
You already know the basics of internet security, right? You know to keep your antivirus program and patches up to date, to be careful where you go on the Internet, and to exercise online street-smarts to resist being tricked into visiting a phishing site or downloading a Trojan horse. But...
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Update: Attackers exploit critical bug in Adobe’s Flash and Reader
Critical Bug in Adobe Products Last week, Adobe warned that attackers are exploiting a critical vulnerability in the company's most widely-used software: Flash Player and Adobe Reader. The zero-day vulnerability is reminiscent of one Adobe disclosed and patched in July 2009, and comes just days after the company's head of...
Sneaky Tabnapping Browser Phishing Tactic Surfaces
A new, incredibly sneaky identity-theft tactic surfaced earlier this week when Mozilla's Aza Raskin, the creative lead of Firefox, unveiled what's become known as "tabnapping" that can dupe users into giving up passwords by secretly changing already-open browser tabs. It is a tabnapping browser phishing scam. Stated simply, tabnapping -- from...
Microsoft GIGANTIC Patch releases Tuesday, June 8th 2010.
Microsoft said it will deliver 10 security updates this Tuesday, June 8, 2010 to patch a record-tying 34 vulnerabilities in Windows, Internet Explorer, Office and SharePoint. The patches will also quash two bugs that Microsoft acknowledged in February and April. This is a Microsoft gigantic patch that we recommend to...
Keep Your Data Safe – Wipe Your Data
How to Protect Yourself - Wipe Your Data Seven years ago, author and security pioneer Simson Garfinkel conducted a study of data he found on second-hand hard drives. He bought the hard drive from an old ATM machine on eBay and it still had the information on 827 bank account...