Monthly Archives: April 2010

A Facebook game played by more that 9 million users has been caught using ads that dupe users into downloading? and installing malware onto their machines. Farm town has been reported by users to run adds that falsely report their … Continue reading

Oracle?s Java runtime has been discovered by researchers to have a bug that allows attackers to remotely execute code on a victims machine. The flaw has been found in the Java web start component and confirmed as exploitable. This applies … Continue reading

A Trojan version of a Windows Mobile game has been reported. The cheeky Trojan makes expensive international calls on a victims behalf. 3D Anti-terrorist action is a first person shooter created by Beijing Huike technology. Pirated versions have been uploaded … Continue reading

Adobe if frequently criticized for it?s applications being hard to patch. Next week it will launch an automatic update that downloads and installs security patches fro it?s programs. Plans for the updater were announced back in October last year and … Continue reading

Adobe Systems is mulling over the need to make changes to it?s PDF programs in order to stop them being used to launch attacks. We posted a blog detailing the threat recently. The misuse of a feature in the PDF … Continue reading

Intego, Mac security specialist, are offering the first AV scanner for the iPad. But whether it?s need or not is a question of much debate. The iPad uses the same OS as the iPhone. The only iPhones that have ever … Continue reading

A whopping 70 suspected cyber-crims have been arrested in Romania. The suspects make up three gangs that have allegedly used hacked eBay accounts to scam the unsuspecting. The login credentials of trusted account were obtained via a phishing scam. They … Continue reading

New research shows how a manipulated PDF file can spread infection to other PDF files on a system. NitroSecurity application security researcher, Jeremy Conway, has discovered an attack scenario that proves PDFs are ?wormable?. Viruses by definition are capable of … Continue reading

Developers at Firefox say they are close to plugging a hole that has affected every major browser for over a decade. The hole is an information leak of a browsers history. The cascading style sheets history attack enables web masters … Continue reading

Today is April fools day and the first birthday of the Conflicker scare. Also known as Downadup, it is estimated that a whopping 6.5 million PCs lie dormant with the threat. Symantec warns that the machines still wide open to … Continue reading