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Hackers are using tales of dead celebrities to build out Zeus botnets by duping users into compromising their own PCs, security experts said today.
The list of celebrities — actors and singers for the most part, with an occasional sports star tossed in — range from Anniston (Jennifer) and Cruise (Tom) to West (Kanye) and Z [...] Read more »
Microsoft released a security advisory addressing a bug in the way many applications are coded which could be exploited to attack Windows PCs. Microsoft was quick to point out that this new class of remote attacks is not related to specific vulnerabilities in Microsoft products, but that doesn’t mean that Microsoft’s applications are properly [...] Read more »
The appearance Monday of exploit code for the DLL loading issue that reportedly affects hundreds of Windows applications means hackers will probably start hammering on PCs shortly, security experts argued.
“Once it makes it into Metasploit, it doesn’t take much more to execute an attack,” said Andrew Storms, director of security operations for nCircle Security. “The [...] Read more »
Virus authors have developed a strain of malware that attempts to con users into uninstalling legitimate security packages.
A rogue package called AnVi Antivirus generates a cheeky pop-up message suggesting that legitimate apps are “uncertified” and ought to be removed. Failure to take action would result in drastically degraded computer performance, marks are disingenuously warned.
Many malware [...] Read more »
Cameron Diaz is the most dangerous celebrity on the Web, antivirus company McAfee said Thursday.
Search strings using Diaz’s name have a one-in-ten chance of coming up with a site infected with or spreading malware, said Dave Marcus, McAfee’s director of security research and communication. Search for “Cameron Diaz and screensavers,” and the risk doubles, Marcus [...] Read more »
A majority of security software suites still fail to detect attacks on PCs even after the style of attack has been known for some time, underscoring how cyber criminals still have the upper hand.
NSS Labs, which conducts tests of security software suites, tested how security packages from 10 major companies detect so-called “client-side exploits.” [...] Read more »
An unpatched problem with Windows applications is much worse than first thought, with hundreds of programs, not just 40, vulnerable to attack, a Slovenian security company said.
“It was a shocking surprise,” said Mitja Kolsek, CEO of Acros Security. “It appears that most every Windows application has this vulnerability.”
Thursday, American researcher HD Moore announced that he [...] Read more »
Mozilla on Tuesday said that it will not patch a bug that blocks the display of a warning when Firefox detects a potentially deceptive URL, saying the flaw was not a threat.
“This issue poses very low risk to users,” said Johnathan Nightingale, director of Firefox development, in an entry yesterday to Mozilla’s security blog . [...] Read more »
Miscreants have unleashed a new type of clickjacking worm onto Facebook.
The latest assault relies on tricking users into using the Facebook “Share” feature without notifying surfers that content is being shared. By contrast, an otherwise similar clickjacking attack dating back from May relied on duping a user into injudicious use of the social network’s “Like” [...] Read more »
Microsoft Windows and about 40 applications that run on it are vulnerable to remote-code execution attacks that are “trivial” to carry out, a noted security researcher warned Wednesday.
The flaw involves the way Windows loads “safe” file types from remote network locations, and is almost identical to one that Apple excised in iTunes last week, H [...] Read more »
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