The Global Cyber War from MentalWardPublishing.com presented free by McGuinnessPublishing.com
Facebook has identified the hacker named Kirllos who tried to sell 1.5 million Facebook accounts recently in underground hacking forums. According to the investigators at the social networking site, he’s guilty of both hacking and hyperbole.
Kirllos was first spotted by researchers at VeriSign’s iDefense group a few weeks back after he claimed to have an [...] 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 »
Apple’s Safari browser contains a critical, unpatched bug that attackers can use to infect Windows PCs with malicious code, researchers at US-CERT and other security firms said today.
Hackers could compromise PCs with simple “drive-by” attack tactics, researchers added.
The vulnerability, first reported by Danish vulnerability tracker Secunia and confirmed by the United States Computer Emergency Readiness [...] 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 »
Two researchers from North Carolina State University have developed software that they say can protect virtualization hypervisors from malicious “Blue Pill” rootkit threats.
“HyperSafe enables the hypervisor self-protection from code injection attempts,” said Xuxian Jiang, an assistant professor of computer science at NCSU.
Jiang, along with his PhD. student Zhi Wang, developed the software, called HyperSafe, with [...] Read more »
Microsoft will release an update intended to rid Internet Explorer 8 of a vulnerability that can enable serious security attacks against websites that are otherwise safe.
The change, which will be introduced in June, will be the third time in six months that Microsoft has tweaked a feature used to filter out XSS, or cross-site scripting [...] Read more »
A flawed DAT file from McAfee led to false positives crashing Windows XP systems and leading to a massive cleanup effort. It would be very easy to simply point the finger at McAfee, terminate the employment of a scapegoat security engineer or two, and continue on with the status quo, however the whole incident is [...] Read more »
Hackers are targeting iPad users with bogus update messages that dupe them into downloading malicious code onto their Windows PCs, a security researcher said Monday.
The messages claim that a recent update to iTunes has been released for the iPad, according to Romanian security company BitDefender. “It is very important to keep the software on your [...] Read more »
What are rootkits and botnets?
A rootkit is a piece of software that can be installed and hidden on your computer without your knowledge. It may be included in a larger software package or installed by an attacker who has been able to take advantage of a vulnerability on your computer or has convinced you to [...] Read more »
What is cyber security?
It seems that everything relies on computers and the internet now — communication (email, cellphones), entertainment (digital cable, mp3s), transportation (car engine systems, airplane navigation), shopping (online stores, credit cards), medicine (equipment, medical records), and the list goes on. How much of your daily life relies on computers? How much of your [...] Read more »
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