Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
The Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) have announced some AutoRun changes for Windows 7.
Currently Conficker and other malware is taking advantage of the AutoRun functionality as a spreading mechanism. AutoRun is used to start some programs automatically when a CD or another media is inserted into a computer. The main ...
Posted in Hardware, Networking, Privacy, Security, Windows | 1 Comment
Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
Thousands of Web sites have been rigged to deliver a powerful piece of malicious software that many security products may be unprepared to handle.
The malicious software is a new variant of Mebroot, a program known as a "rootkit" for the stealthy way it hides deep in the Windows operating system, ...
Posted in Internet, Privacy, Security, Windows | No Comments
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009
The Conficker worm is finally doing something--updating via peer-to-peer between infected computers and dropping a mystery payload on infected computers, Trend Micro said on Wednesday.
Researchers were analyzing the code of the software that is being dropped onto infected computers but suspect that it is a keystroke logger or some other ...
Posted in Internet, Security, Windows | No Comments
Monday, March 30th, 2009
Experts have discovered a security hole in the computer code that powers the Conficker worm, an aggressive contagion that has spread to more than 12 million Microsoft Windows systems worldwide. The security community is treading lightly with this news, because while the discovery could make it easier to isolate infected ...
Posted in Coding, Internet, Security, Windows | 2 Comments
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
Websense Security Labs ThreatSeeker Network has discovered that the official Web site of Peugeot in Romania has been compromised and is infecting the machines of site visitors with malicious code. Malicious code has been inserted onto the reported page of the site via iframes. These iframes redirect to the pages ...
Posted in Coding, Internet, Security | No Comments
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