Posted by Pete on 31-07-08 05:18 PM
Banking Trojan hides in fake Alonso F1 crash story
Fabricated news of a supposed car accident involving Formula One star Fernando Alonso is being used to distribute a new banking Trojan.
The fake news story, supposedly from Spanish daily El Pais, has two-time motor racing champion seriously injured on Tuesday in an accident in the norther city of Bilbao. The bogus story, distributed via spam emails, links to a....
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Posted by Pete on 31-07-08 05:16 PM
Malware authors declare start of World War III (again)
It beggars belief that anyone would think that they'd first hear of World War III through a spam email. But hackers are relying on such credulous fools in an attempt to spread a new Trojan.
Widely spammed emails with subject lines including "Third World War has begun", "20000 US Soldiers in Iran", and "US Army crossed Iran's borders" link to a website displaying.....
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Posted by Pete on 04-07-08 02:20 PM
Internet Explorer 8 beta 2 is expected to be released in the third quarter of 2008, which is between 1 July and 30 September, says Microsoft employee Nick MacKechnie in a blog written and posted yesterday.
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Posted by Pete on 04-07-08 02:18 PM
Microsoft has detailed a raft of security improvements due to appear in Internet Explorer 8. The second beta of Redmond's web browser will be packed full of features designed to thwart phishing and drive-by download attacks, Redmond explained on Wednesday.
Users need to be running either......
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Posted by Pete on 27-05-08 12:53 PM
Gamers desperate to get their mitts on Grand Theft Auto IV are being targeted in an opportunistic spyware scam. Spam emails offer prospective marks free entry to a draw offering a PlayStation 3 loaded with the much-anticipated game as a prize.
In reality, these illicit emails are loaded with spyware designed to....
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Posted by Pete on 27-05-08 12:48 PM
Facebook has fixed a cross site scripting flaw that left its users at risk from scripting attacks.
Security blog xssed.com has posted a harmless proof of concept demo of a flaw on the social networking website that could leave surfers vulnerable to malware. Attacks that trick users into handing over their....
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Posted by Pete on 15-04-08 08:18 PM
Malware writers have passed the baton in the race to take advantage of the Olympics with the second attempt to load malware onto PCs in a week.
A movie file circulating on the net that poses as a cartoon ridiculing the effort of a Chinese gymnast at the games, followed by images supporting a free Tibet, has been booby-trapped with malware.
While the Flash-based movie runs, a keystroke logging tool is silently.....
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Posted by Pete on 08-04-08 10:02 AM
Microsoft will be putting out eight security patches on 8 April, five of them with the unlovable critical label, in the latest run of its regular update cycle.
The critical updates cover a brace of bugs in .....
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Posted by Pete on 08-04-08 09:55 AM
Symantec has confirmed flaws in its most popular consumer security software that could give attackers the means to hijack the Windows PCs that the programs are supposed to protect.
The vulnerabilities are in .....
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