Thursday, September 8th, 2011 Hackers are using a new trick to cloak malicious files by disguising their Windows file extensions to make them appear safe to download, a Czech security company warned today.The exploit, dubbed "Unitrix" by Avast Software, abuses Unicode for right-to-left languages -- such as Arabic or Hebrew -- to mask Windows ...
Posted in Internet, Security | No Comments
Saturday, January 29th, 2011 Microsoft is investigating new public reports of a vulnerability in all supported editions of Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow an attacker to cause a victim to run malicious scripts when visiting various Web sites, resulting in information disclosure. This impact is similar to server-side cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities. Microsoft ...
Posted in Internet, Privacy, Security, Windows | No Comments
Tuesday, January 4th, 2011 Browser security specialist Michal Zalewski believes that Chinese hackers have long been aware of a security vulnerability in Internet Explorer which has only recently come to public attention. It is believed that this vulnerability could be exploited to infect computers, though current efforts have succeeded only in provoking crashes. The ...
Posted in Internet, Privacy, Security, Software | 1 Comment
Sunday, November 28th, 2010 Armitage is a graphical cyber attack management tool for Metasploit that visualizes your targets, recommends exploits, and exposes the advanced capabilities of the framework. Armitage aims to make Metasploit usable for security practitioners who understand hacking but don't use Metasploit every day. If you want to learn Metasploit and grow ...
Posted in Internet, Networking, Privacy, Security, Software | No Comments
Saturday, November 27th, 2010 Another 0-day bug on the Windows platform is affecting win32k.sys (a critical component of the Windows kernel), and this time, the approach seems to pose a major challenge to the security world. This vulnerability is triggered by a buffer overflow in the kernel file, which allows code to bypass UAC ...
Posted in Security, Windows | No Comments
