The Global Cyber War from MentalWardPublishing.com presented free by McGuinnessPublishing.com
Mozilla has disabled and block-listed a Firefox add-on containing code that nabs login data sent to any website and reroutes it to a remote server.
The add-on — known as, um, Mozilla Sniffer — was uploaded to the Firefox add-on site on June 6, and the malicious code was discovered on Monday, after which the add-on [...] Read more »
The web sites of more than a whopping 200 Australian organisations were hijacked and vandalised in a spate of hacks last week.
In the largest single attack, a hacker gained administrative access to the Direct Admin server management system used by a hosting provider, who Computerworld Australia will not name, and suspended 159 accounts rendering their [...] Read more »
Malicious hackers attacked Google’s YouTube on Sunday, exploiting a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability on the ultra-popular video sharing site, hitting primarily sections where users post comments.
“Comments were temporarily hidden by default within an hour [of discovering the problem], and we released a complete fix for the issue in about two hours. We’re continuing to study [...] Read more »
Google engineer Tavis Ormandy, a bug hunter known for finding kernel-level operating system coding errors, has released details about a serious zero-day vulnerability in Windows XP that could leave an open hole for a remote attacker.
The flaw is contained in the Windows Help and Support Center, a Web-based feature providing technical support to end users. [...] Read more »
A just-published attack tactic that bypasses the security protections of most current antivirus software is a “very serious” problem, an executive at one unaffected company said.
Last week, researchers at Matousec.com outlined how attackers could exploit the kernel driver hooks that most security software use to reroute Windows system calls through their software to check for [...] Read more »
Computer scientists have pulled off what is claimed to be the first successful attack against a commercial system based on theoretically uncrackable quantum cryptography.
Quantum key exchange, which forms the basis of quantum cryptography, relies on a principle of quantum physics that means it is not possible to eavesdrop on single quanta - generally photons in [...] Read more »
A new attack technique has been described by matousec.com (a project of Different Internet Experience Ltd.) which could allow a program to bypass the host intrusion detection and certain other protections provided by common Windows security software. Their report lists 35 security products on which they tested the technique; it worked on all of them.
The [...] Read more »
How do you get a malware exploit to bypass antivirus protection? By making it work the same way the antivirus software does.
A new exploit outlined this week is so effective, say researchers, that it can slip by “virtually all” antivirus protection undetected.
It works the same way an antivirus app does, by hooking directly into Windows [...] Read more »
A just-published attack tactic that bypasses the security protections of most current antivirus software is a “very serious” problem, an executive at one unaffected company said today.
Last Wednesday, researchers at Matousec.com outlined how attackers could exploit the kernel driver hooks that most security software use to reroute Windows system calls through their software to check [...] Read more »
China last year hosted more than one in four of the world’s computers infected with a major variant of the Conficker worm, according to an official report, highlighting the wide reach of malware inside the country.
China had about 7 million Internet Protocol (IP) addresses infected with Conficker B at the end of last year, according [...] Read more »
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