Mass SQL injection
Thursday, April 24th, 2008There's another round of mass SQL injections going on which has infected hundreds of thousands of websites. Performing a Google search results in over 510,000 modified pages.
There's another round of mass SQL injections going on which has infected hundreds of thousands of websites. Performing a Google search results in over 510,000 modified pages.
AVG Technologies Releases AVG Anti-Virus Free 8.0
Thursday, April 24th, 2008AVG Technologies, a leading provider of Internet security software, will tomorrow release AVG Anti-Virus Free 8.0, the latest version of the company’s popular and widely-used free security software, which now incorporates protection against spyware through a new combined anti-virus and anti-spyware engine. AVG Free provides basic protection against viruses and spyware, ...
Reverse-Engineering Exploits from Patches
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008The automatic patch-based exploit generation problem is: given a program P and a patched version of the program P', automatically generate an exploit for the potentially unknown vulnerability present in P but fixed in P'. In this paper, we propose techniques for automatic patch-based exploit generation, and show that our ...
Infected Web Pages Nearly Triple
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008The 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 ...
Microsoft sees huge rise in Web attacks
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008Criminals changed tactics in the last six months of 2007, dropping malicious email in favour of Web-based attacks, according to data reported to Microsoft by Windows users. The company saw the number of Trojan downloader programs it removed from Windows machines jump by 300 percent, according to Jimmy Kuo, principal architect ...
