Tuesday, June 17th, 2008 Kaspersky Lab has published advice on recovering files encrypted by the frightening Gpcode.ak virus, but there is a big catch -- users must not have turned off their PC first.A new variant of the malware struck last week, scrambling a variety of files on victims' PCs using a very strong ...
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008 Mass SQL injection attack, take four: Yet another wave of SQL injection attacks is exploiting an Adobe Flash vulnerability that appears to be coming from the same series of attacks originating from China.The intent, as in previous attacks, has been to steal online gamers’ password credentials. But given the persistence ...
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008 A little-known botnet has put a different spin on the recent wave of SQL injection attacks on thousands of Websites: It’s outfitting its bots with its own tool to launch SQL injection attacks on vulnerable sites.The Asprox botnet, a relatively small botnet known mainly for sending phishing emails, has been ...
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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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