Koobface Now Using Christmas Theme

Monday, November 30th, 2009

The Koobface Web site offers a video posted by 'SantA'. The usual ruse of requiring a codec to watch the video is used, to encourage the user to install and run a file called setup.exe (SHA1:a2046fc88ab82abec89e150b915ab4b332af924a). This file is currently detected by 16 out of 41 antivirus products according to ...

New Flash Attack Has No Real ‘Fix’

Friday, November 13th, 2009

Researchers have discovered a new attack that exploits the way browsers operate with Adobe Flash -- and there's no simple patch for it. The attack can occur on Websites that accept user-generated content -- anything from Webmail to social networking sites. An attacker basically takes advantage of the fact that a ...

Mozilla Plugin Check

Saturday, October 3rd, 2009

The Mozilla Firefox development team started to check the Flash plugin version of Firefox web browsers on the What’s New page after Firefox updates recently. This page would inform users if the Flash plugin version of their web browser was not the latest one which usually meant that their web ...

Almost all Windows users vulnerable to Flash zero-day attacks

Monday, July 27th, 2009

More than 9 out of every 10 Windows users are vulnerable to the Flash zero-day vulnerability that Adobe won't patch until Thursday, a Danish security company said today. According to Secunia, 92% of the 900,000 users who have recently run the company's Personal Software Inspector (PSI) utility have Flash Player 10 ...

Zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player, Reader and Acrobat

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

Adobe is warning of a critical security vulnerability in its current Flash Player for Windows, Macintosh and Linux. Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x for all platforms are also affected. The vulnerability is already being actively exploited two ways, via crafted PDF documents and manipulated web sites (drive-by downloads). It's reported ...