Monday, August 4th, 2008
Most of the major security suite vendors release their new editions in the fall, but some run ahead or behind the rest of the pack. With the release of Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 the fall flood of security suites has officially begun. I'm working on two other suites right now, ...
Posted in General BS, Hardware, Linux, Software, Windows | No Comments
Friday, July 18th, 2008
A new kind of malicious software could pose a danger to Windows users who download music files on peer-to-peer networks.
The new malware inserts links to dangerous Web pages within ASF (Advanced Systems Format) media files.
"The possibility of this has been known for a little while but this is the first ...
Posted in Internet, Privacy, Security, Software | No Comments
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
The new version of Kaspersky's security suite, Internet Security 2009, features a novel but simple defense against keylogging malware -- a virtual keyboard.
Full details have yet to be confirmed, but it is understood that the program will let users bring up the keyboard from which to enter login details for ...
Posted in Internet, Linux, Privacy, Security, Software, Windows | No Comments
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 ...
Posted in Internet, Privacy, Security, Software | No Comments
Thursday, June 5th, 2008
A flaw in a kernel driver used by Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6.0 and 7.0, Kaspersky Internet Security 6.0 and 7.0, and Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6.0 for Windows Workstations can be exploited by uers with restricted rights to get admin rights to a system, or by malware to execute with system privileges.
The cause ...
Posted in Coding, Security, Software | No Comments
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 ...
Posted in Coding, Hardware, Linux, Networking, Privacy, Security, Software, Windows | No Comments
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
The number of online threats will have grown tenfold by the end of 2007, according to researchers at anti-malware firm Kaspersky.
Kaspersky analysts said at Infosec Europe 2008 that new malicious programs recorded on the internet, including viruses, worms and Trojans, amounted to 2.2 million in 2007, representing a fourfold increase ...
Posted in Internet, Privacy, Security | No Comments
