Tuesday, July 29th, 2008 AVG Technologies' virus scanner contains a DoS vulnerability that allows attackers to crash the scanner. The crash is caused by division by zero when processing UPX-packed files. The vendor has released update 8.0.156, which fixes the problem.Also in this version, the Search-Shield components do not scan web sites for malicious ...
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Friday, July 11th, 2008 Antivirus software vendor Sophos has reported the discovery of a DoS vulnerability in some of its products. According to the security advisory, specially crafted attachments to emails can bring down Sophos E-mail Appliance, Pure Message for UNIX and Sophos Anti-Virus Interface (SAVI). For the attack to succeed, the MIME attachment ...
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Saturday, June 7th, 2008 The emergence of a variant on a virus that encrypts the victim's data with a strong 1,024-bit algorithm so the victim can't unscramble it without paying a ransom has begun to spread, potentially posing a major threat, according to the antimalware firm which discovered it.Kaspersky Lab says the new variant ...
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008 The major change is both tools now support 64-bit targets! Good news for us.pwdump6 is a password hash dumper for Windows 2000 and later systems. It is capable of dumping LanMan and NTLM hashes as well as password hash histories. It is based on pwdump3e, and should be stable on ...
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Saturday, May 24th, 2008 Love or hate its nagging prompts, Vista's Account Control feature (UAC) has a security feature that marks it out from any other type of Windows security programme -- it can spot rootkits before they install.This is one finding buried in a report published in two German computer ...
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