Threat Update
New variant of mebroot detected as vendors criticised for failing to react to threat
3 June 2009 | SC Magazine UK by Dan Raywood
Security vendors have been criticised for failing to react to the MBR rootkit and offer protection against it. Prevx malware technology specialist Marco Giuliani claimed in his blog that in the two [...]
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Pirated Windows 7 RCs riddled with malware
20 May 2009 | VNUNet by Phil Muncaster
Security companies are warning users not to download Windows 7 release candidate software from peer-to-peer sites, after it was discovered that several versions contain malware. The pirated copies of the software, which are circulating on various networks, are infected with [...]
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Younger Generation Most Vulnerable to Cyber Crime
8 May 2009 | SPAMfighter
According to PC Tools, a software company in Australia, younger Internet users, who are active digitally and surf on the Web primarily for socializing, are at the greatest risk of being fooled by cyber criminals. The Security Company states that the latest study [...]
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Cybercrooks Target ‘Digitally Active’
3 May 2009 | PC Advisor by Carrie Ann Skinner
Younger Internet users who are ‘digitally active’ and use the Web for mostly social interaction are most at risk of cybercrime, says PC Tools. According to the security vendor, recent research revealed that 18- to 32-year-olds are the most social Web [...]
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Pdf Reader Oday Published
29 April 2009 | ThreatFire Research Blog
Another Acrobat Reader 0day PoC has been posted, this time targeting a boundary condition error (longhand for buffer overflow here) in the vulnerable ‘getAnnots()’ java-script function. We haven’t seen any ITW malcode targeting Windows versions of Reader, but based on past experience, ThreatFire will [...]
by Sarah on April 24, 2009
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by Sarah on April 20, 2009
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