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Monthly Archives: March 2010
Malware is now being created that disguises a Trojan as an update utility by overwriting it, this is currently happening to Adobe and others. This is a new approach, usually update ruses are executed via e-mail. Now they are being … Continue reading
An open source device that captures wireless traffic has been unveiled by security researchers. The devices captures traffic from a wide range of wireless devices, from keyboards to medical devices to remote controls. Named Keykeriki version 2, it captures the … Continue reading
An e-mail malware attack has been launched into the ether, using tournament material to trick the unsuspecting. Fake e-mails from Greenlife, an African safari organiser, have been arriving in mailboxes. They contain a PDF attachment containing a payload that uses … Continue reading
Mozilla have plugged?a vulnerability in Firefox a week ahead of schedule. The release of Firefox 3.6.2 fixes a flaw that you may have read about on this blog yesterday. The zero-day vulnerability was due to an integer overflow fault relating … Continue reading
Surfers are being advised not to use Firefox by Germany?s official cyber-security response team. A patch for a critical vulnerability is yet to be released. The fix is due on the 30th of March. And until then BurgerCERT have warned … Continue reading
Facebook has actually warned it’s facebookees about a password reset scam that is currently going on. The scam tricks unsuspecting facebookers into downloading a password-jacking Trojan. A wide distribution of spam e-mails is hitting targets, informing victims that their passwords … Continue reading
A sneaky little trojan backdoor found it’;s way into software that’s used to monitor rechargeable energizer products. Energizer admitted over two weeks ago that it’s duo ESB battery charger loaded a data-grabbing backdoor on user’s machines. The infected file was … Continue reading
Microsoft have said that communications with the Waladec Botnet have been “effectively decimated”. The?unique?take-down combined a variety of technical measures with court actions. The take-down, called b49?has cut off around 90,000 infected PCs from being fed malware, malicious data and … Continue reading
It seems that most AV suites still can’t block Aurora. Operation Aurora was used in the highly publicised attack against Google. Independent tests at NSS labs have analysed the effectiveness of?seven popular security packages against different strains of the Aurora … Continue reading