Sunday, July 27th, 2008
McAfee is reporting new examples of malware distributed through e-mail in the form of UPS invoices and airline e-tickets.
The threats seem to be variants of a new downloader the company had reported on (Generic Downloader.ab, MTIS08-131-A).
The UPS version says that your last shipment could not be delivered because the address ...
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Thursday, June 12th, 2008
The websites of three of the security industry's best-known companies include security flaws that could be used to launch scams against customers, according to a new report.
The report, from security watchdog site XSSed, verified 30 cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities across the sites of McAfee, Symantec and VeriSign. The flaws could ...
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Monday, June 9th, 2008
Should they all be trusted at first sight by unsuspecting online users? Yes, unfortunately this is the case with the websites of renowned and respected IT security companies. However, now that are all vulnerable to cross-site scripting, the possibilities to get phished and infected with malware and crimeware are dramatically ...
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Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Just over 4% of all Web sites are dangerous, according to a new report. But all bad sites aren’t created equal: Cyber bad guys are more likely to build their sites where it’s easy to do so.
The report out today from McAfee, a tech-security company that’s trying to position itself ...
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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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