All the stories tagged with malware
New Twitter malware rampant
01/21/2011, With every new form of communication, comes new users and of course new threats to security. Twitter has been around for awhile now, but not everybody understands how it works and a lot of them simply click on links they [...]
Sophisticated Android trojan discovered over in China
12/29/2010, A mobile security firm has warned of a new, sophisticated Android malware that has surfaced over in China. The Trojan is currently dubbed Geinimi and is apparently capable of compromising a significant amount of personal data on the user’s phone [...]
1% of Internet Websites Are Serving Malware in Q2 2010
09/16/2010, According to Dasient, about 1 million Web sites, or 1% of the Internet websites, were spreading malware, or malicious code, in the second quarter of this year, which represents a sharp increase. The web security firm says that the calculated [...]
Strong Passwords and Log-Ins May Be the Weakest at Protecting Users
09/07/2010, We are taught to create the strongest passwords that we can think of–no sequential letters or characters with at least six to eight characters in length, and that password must be changed every so often, perhaps every couple of months. [...]
Sophisticated New Malware Shows Fake Malware Detection Warning
09/03/2010, Microsoft is warning that a new sophisticated malware has the ability to fool users to clicking on it because it can copy the UI and appearance of an official security alert presented by Firefox, Chrome, or Internet Explorer. The malware [...]
Smartphones Safer Than PC for Now
08/31/2010, Despite the growing catalog of official third-party apps available on app stores like the iOS App Store and Android Market and apps that are available as sideloaded content, a recent study finds that smartphones, for the time being, are still [...]
Pentagon Finally Admits to Cyber-Security Hack in 2008
08/26/2010, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense William S. Lynn III has finally, after two years, confirmed that the Pentagon has undergone a major cyber-security attack in 2008, calling the incident “the most significant breach of U.S. military computers ever.” According to [...]
Dell Accidentally Ships Replacement Motherboards With Malware
07/22/2010, In what is probably going to be a bad bit for PR for Dell, the company has accidentally allowed motherboards infected with malware to ship to customers when dispatching hardware replacements for certain motherboards. It’s currently limited to replacement motherboards [...]
Olympus Stylus Tough 6010 Camera Ships With Malware
06/09/2010, This definitely isn’t the first time such an issue has happened, but it’s becoming increasingly common. We’re talking about the fact that Olympus has issued a warning to customers who recently purchased its Stylus Tough 6010 shockproof and waterproof camera. [...]
Energizer Duo USB battery charger has a backdoor
03/08/2010, Software for the Energizer Duo USB battery can be pretty dangerous – after all, it comes with a backdoor that potentially enables an attacker to remotely take control of a Windows-based computer. Good to know that Energizer and US-CERT (U.S. [...]
HackAlert protects web businesses
09/22/2009, HackAlert is a SaaS application that aims to prevent legitimate website from being hacked and used as a Malware source via code injection. Code Injection is a hacking technique that consists in exploiting a weakness in the processing by introducing [...]
CA eTrust update 33.3.7051 can disable Windows systems
08/12/2009, CA has had some issues with the 33.3.7051 update of its eTrust anti-virus software: the updated started to flag critical system files and some of its own files as being infected (they were not) and sending them to quarantine. That [...]
