by Joseph Forbes | Feb 15, 2013 | Blog Entry, INTERNET, Malware Reports, NERD NEWS, SECURITY
from the but-don’t-worry-they’re-just-1s-and-0s dept. MIT Technology Review reports that efforts by U.S. government agencies and defense contractors to develop malware to attack enemies is driving a black market in zero-day vulnerabilities. Experts warn...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 10, 2013 | Malware Reports, NERD NEWS, SECURITY
from the something-to-be-said-for-consistency dept. Adobe has pushed out an emergency Flash update that solves two critical vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-0633 and CVE-2013-0634) that are being actively exploited to target Windows and OS X users, and is urging users to...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 2, 2013 | Malware Reports, NERD NEWS, SECURITY
from the watch-what-you-click dept. The popular belief is that security risks increase as the user engages in riskier and shadier behavior online, but that apparently isn’t the case, Cisco found in its 2013 Annual Security report. It can be more dangerous to...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 23, 2013 | Malware Reports
Trend Micro has discovered new trojans which camouflage their communication by imitating common instant messaging protocols such as Windows Live Messenger or Yahoo Messenger. The security company has dubbed the trojans “Fakem RATs” (a RAT being a remote...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 21, 2013 | Malware Reports, SECURITY
Recently, a 0-day vulnerability (CVE-2013-0422) was disclosed. Oracle promptly reacted on this 0-day vulnerability, and last weekend a new patch was made available. Here’s the advisory from Oracle. You can download latest JRE here. As the vulnerability is...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 11, 2013 | Blog Entry, HACKING, Malware Reports
IDG News Service – An exploit for a previously unknown and currently unpatched vulnerability in Java is being used by cybercriminals to infect computers with malware, according to security researchers. An independent malware researcher who uses the online...
