Make Windows Vista Defrag Less Often

Friday, April 24th, 2009

I just noticed this today but it looks as though the Disk Defragmenter in Windows Vista is scheduled to run once a week by default. Personally, I think that with these newer and more efficient operating systems, not to mention the growing sizes of hard drives, that this is completely overkill.  ...

Security team shows unfixable Windows 7 hack

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

At the Hack In The Box (HITB) Security Conference in Dubai on Thursday, security researchers demonstrated how software they developed can already take advantage of a design problem with the upcoming Windows 7 operating system, allowing them to hack into the system. VBootkit 2.0, created by researchers Vipin Kumar and ...

Firefox 3.0.9 Released

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009

Firefox 3.0.9 fixes several security issues found in Firefox 3.0.8: Firefox allows Refresh header to redirect to javascript: URIs POST data sent to wrong site when saving web page with embedded frame Malicious search plugins can inject code into arbitrary sites Same-origin violations in XMLHttpRequest and XPCNativeWrapper.toString XSS hazard using third-party stylesheets and XBL bindings Same-origin violations ...

Stealthy Rootkit Slides Further Under the Radar

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

Thousands of Web sites have been rigged to deliver a powerful piece of malicious software that many security products may be unprepared to handle. The malicious software is a new variant of Mebroot, a program known as a "rootkit" for the stealthy way it hides deep in the Windows operating system, ...

Windows Kernel Again Found Vulnerable

Thursday, April 9th, 2009

Recently, our APAC threat intelligence team discovered a couple of Windows kernel zero-day vulnerabilities in the field, which could be potentially used for malicious purposes. These were discovered in some discussion forums in China. One of these issues exists in Windows NT/2000/XP according to the description provided. The issue arises ...