Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Rootkits are still a security scanner’s worst nightmare: New rootkit detection tests recently conducted by AV-Test.org found that security suites and online Web scanners detected overall only a little more than half of rootkits.
AV-Test.org, an indie security test organization based in Germany, ran two rootkit tests last month, one on ...
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
This definitely won’t be music to the ears of music aficionados who acquire their MP3s from peer-to-peer (P2P) networks, but it’s definitely not something they haven’t heard of either.
A host of adware under the guise of media files on P2P networks have been reportedly raking up numbers of victims on ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Mozilla warned Wednesday that a malicious program inserted adware code into a Firefox plugin that has been downloaded thousands of times over the past three months.
Because of a virus infection, the Vietnamese language pack for Firefox 2 was polluted with adware, Mozilla security chief Window Snyder said in a blog ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
A loyal ISC reader, Rob, wrote in to point us at what looks to be a SQL Injection worm that is on the loose. From a quick google search it shows that there are about 4,000 websites infected and that this worm started at least mid-April if not earlier. Right ...
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
The rate at which Internet security company Sophos detected infected Web pages nearly tripled in the first quarter of 2008, the company said.
In its Q1 08 threat report released Monday, Sophos says that it discovered a new infected Web page every 5 seconds. In 2007, the company says, it saw ...
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