The Global Cyber War from MentalWardPublishing.com presented free by McGuinnessPublishing.com
A well-known cryptographic attack could be used by hackers to log into Web applications used by millions of users, according to two security experts who plan to discuss the issue at an upcoming security conference.
Researchers Nate Lawson and Taylor Nelson say they’ve discovered a basic security flaw that affects dozens of open-source software libraries — [...] 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 »
A section of the Web site for China’s state-run Xinhua news agency was found to be distributing malware last month, according to a Google malware scanning service that is still labeling the site as potentially harmful.
The “news center” section of the Xinhua’s Web site, which displays a feed of the agency’s stories, was found to [...] Read more »
Microsoft is scrambling to fix a bug in its SharePoint 2007 groupware after a Swiss firm abruptly released code that could be used in an attack.
The proof-of-concept code was released Wednesday, just over two weeks after security consultancy High-Tech Bridge says it disclosed the issue to Microsoft on April 12.
Although Microsoft hasn’t said much about [...] Read more »
Exploits of Adobe Systems Inc.’s PDF file format jumped dramatically last year and are continuing to climb during 2010, a McAfee Inc. security researcher said Wednesday.
Microsoft Corp., meanwhile, recently said that more than 46% of the browser-based exploits during the second half of 2009 were aimed at vulnerabilities in the free Adobe Reader PDF viewer.
According [...] Read more »
Microsoft’s security team is investigating a security vulnerability in older versions of Windows that allows attackers to execute malware on end user machines.
The bug combines scripts based on Microsoft’s Visual Basic language with Windows help files for Internet Explorer. It makes it possible for an attacker hosting a malicious website to remotely run arbitrary code [...] Read more »
Most businesses are defenseless against the types of attacks that recently hit Google and at least 33 other companies, according to a report to be published Monday that estimates the actual number of targeted companies could top 100.
The attackers behind the cyber assault dubbed Aurora patiently stalked their hand-chosen victims over a matter of months [...] Read more »
The information stolen from Google in cyberattacks late last year included a password system that gives users access to multiple services after just one login, according to a news report.
Google in January said it had been hit by cyberattacks believed to be launched from China that caused the theft of Google intellectual property. The stolen [...] Read more »
Microsoft should add a basic PDF viewer to Windows to help protect users from the spike in attacks exploiting bugs in Adobe’s Reader, a security researcher said.
“Apple does this with its Preview [application], and Microsoft should, too,” said Sean Sullivan, a security advisor with Finnish antivirus vendor F-Secure’s North American operation. “I just want to [...] Read more »
Everyone in the security business has an annual report these days, but the Symantec Global Internet Security Threat Report is one you have to pay attention to because they are so global and collect so much data, and their report is so well-produced. The 2009 version of the report comes in at just under 100 [...] Read more »
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