Google cuts grace period for vendors of vulnerable software
Google is shortening the amount of time it gives to makers of vulnerable software and web services if there is imminent danger. The Google security team say...
Google is shortening the amount of time it gives to makers of vulnerable software and web services if there is imminent danger. The Google security team say...
PCMag: My social media accounts and email inbox are full of links to stories about the horrific incident in Boston earlier this week. I am reading about the ...
Security firm Group-IB has identified a malware program called Dump Memory Grabber that can take debit and credit card data from point-of-sale (POS) terminal...
Cross-posted from WIRED.
For about two and a half hours on Monday, students at Oxford University couldn’t access Google Docs after the University’s Computing Services team decided to...
Just a few days after adding a new set of features to Dropbox for Teams, the cloud storage company rolled out a new version of its iOS application which intr...
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After many years of dealing with site compatibility issues, Opera found the solution: it will switch from its proprietary rendering engine (Presto) to WebKit...
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In advance of one of the most significant waves of product launches in Microsoft’s history, today they are unveiling a new logo for the company.
iol scitech: London – A British computer hacker accused by the United States of breaking into top secret military and space agency networks will learn the re...
h-Online: The developers of the VirusTotal online virus scanner service are currently testing a new sandbox feature to provide users with more meaningful sca...
Computer World: Security software vendor Symantec said Wednesday that Enrique Salem, its president and chief executive officer, had stepped down with immedia...
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FoxNews: International hacking group Anonymous took at least 10 Australian government websites offline briefly Tuesday in a series of escalating attacks over...
Independent: If you’re a fan of fake Rolex watches and cheap Viagra look away now.
The Smoking Gun: Christina Aguilera contends that the recent hacking of her e-mail account had stripped her of a “feeling of security” that now “can never be...
ZDNet: Indonesia’s communications and information ministry has shut down more than one million pornographic Web sites ahead of Islamic holy month of Ramadan ...
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TechChurch: Marissa Mayer, the technology executive who has worked at Google since the search company’s earliest days, has been appointed CEO of Yahoo.
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v3.co.uk: Card processing firm Global Payments has provided more detail on the attack on its computer systems earlier this year, warning that the attackers m...
H-Online: Hackers developed a script which was able to crack Google’s reCAPTCHA system with a success rate of better than 99 per cent. They presented the res...
Petr Chocholous in response to Iranian users contacting avast saying they are unable to open website or update their antivirus said:
H-Online: UK regulator PhonepayPlus (fomerly known ICSTIS) has imposed a fine of £50,000 on a payment provider used for an Android malware-based fraud and fo...
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File-sharing website The Pirate Bay (TPB) has been hit by a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack.
The H-Online: Avira says that it has resolved the problems caused by a Service Pack that was released for its Windows products earlier this week. Users are a...
Google’s Knowledge Graph will display summaries of topics when your query is related to one of the 500 million items in Google’s new database of things.
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The H-Online: WhatsApp Sniffer is an app able to display messages from other WhatsApp users connected to the same network as the app user. The tool diverts a...
SophosLabs: According to reports, Iran has started making its own anti-virus software.
The H-Online: The whitec0de.com blog reports that, for $20, a member of a hacker forum offered to crack any Hotmail account within a minute – and that he kep...
Cross-Posted from Official Google Blog: Just like the Loch Ness Monster, you may have heard the rumors about Google Drive. It turns out, one of the two actua...
The BBC is reporting that websites belonging to the Iranian oil ministry and national oil company are offline after suffering a malware infection this weekend.
The H-Security: The head of Google's Webspam team, Matt Cutts, announced on Twitter that Google has sent out a message to the webmasters of 20,000 sites i...
SophosLabs: More malware for the Mac OS X platform has been discovered, hot on the heels of the revelation that some 600,000 Macs had been infected in the Fl...
An Iranian hacker published the information about some 3 million debit cards of 10 Iranian banks, including codes and passwords.
Android malware authors have seized an opportunity to infect unsuspecting smartphone users with the launch of the latest addition to the immensely popular “A...
The H-Online: A Russian AV company, Dr. Web, says it has conducted research to determine the spread of the Flashback trojan on systems running Mac OS X and s...
SophosLabs: Brian Krebs is reporting that MasterCard and Visa are warning member-banks of a payment processor breach that may impact more than 10,000,000 cre...
The H-Security: Google has added new features to its OAuth 2.0 Playground, which it launched last November. Developers can now switch to using client-side fl...
The H-Security: On Tuesday, a user who is known as “lawabidingcitizen” posted an unusual request to the Full Disclosure mailing list, a forum that is mainly ...
The H-Security: Business appears to be booming for those who trade in unpatched (zero-day) security holes: according to a report by Forbes magazine, a US com...
Mashable: The day when Android users will first lay hands on the red hot photo-sharing app Instagram just got even closer. Late Saturday, a sign-up page appe...
The Register: Pro-China hackers have started spoofing security firm AlienVault’s email address in spam messages in an attempt to infect pro-Tibetan recipient...
The H-Security: Until just a few days ago, web sites belonging to the world’s largest online payment service contained a security vulnerability in a key comp...
Exploit found in Russian adware invades process, doesn’t install files
H-Online: The Firefox team has announced that they are postponing the release of Firefox 11, originally planned for today, because of a security report which...
The H-Online: Google has announced on its Inside Search blog that it is enabling SSL encryption by default on its global search pages. The US site Google.com...
ISC Diary: One of the things that I’ve been working on lately is building an automated malware analysis environment to handle Android malware similar to the ...
BBC: Hackers gained “full functional control” of key Nasa computers in 2011, the agency’s inspector general has told US lawmakers.
SophosLabs: This week has seen the annual Mobile World Congress event. For 2012, the giants of the mobile tech world are back in Barcelona to captivate the i...
Google is to offer up to a million dollars in rewards for Chrome exploits at the CanSecWest conference. Previously, Google has sponsored the Pwn2Own competit...
SophosLabs: Want a free password for one of the world’s most popular adult websites?
The H-Online: Tenable has released version 5.0 of Nessus, its popular vulnerability scanner. The new version of the tool includes an updated installation wiz...
The H-Online: According to a report, hackers, allegedly from China, had access to telecoms equipment manufacturer Nortel‘s IT systems over a period of severa...
The H-Online: Twitter has announced that it has now enabled HTTPS by default for all users signed into the micro-blogging service. By using HTTPS, all user i...
Mashable: Reddit, known for its freewheeling approach to content management, instituted a new rule over the weekend that banned suggestive or sexual content ...
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SophosLabs: One of the largest ISPs in The Netherlands has shut down its email services after hackers posted usernames, passwords, phone numbers, addresses a...
The Hacker News: Latest Notification in The Hacker News Vault by a Hacker named “Xenu (Casi)” from r00tw0rm Team that There are 63 Blind SQL injection Vulner...
Mashable: Google planned to open its first-ever public store at its European headquarters in Dublin, if you believed a rumor reported by Bloomberg. But accor...
Mashable: LinkedIn on Thursday announced it has 150 million members in its network, a 20 million increase over November.
For all of you who’ve been asking (and patiently waiting) for a version of OneNote for your Android phones, we have great news: OneNote Mobile for Android is...
Mashable: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has been under fire from world leaders to step down this week. He’s also under fire from hacktivist group Anonymou...
Mashable: Yahoo‘s chairman of the board, Roy Bostock, is leaving the company. Bostock has been chairman since 2008.
SophosLabs: Symantec has confirmed that a file made available on the internet for anyone to download, does contain the source code for an old version of its ...
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The H-Online: Google plans to turn off online checks for SSL certificate validity in its Chrome browser soon, according to a blog post by Adam Langley, the d...
SophosLabs: The United States, which currently forbids government workers or soldiers to use smartphones to send classified messages, is preparing a modified...
Mashable: Google just debuted a project dedicated to attacking some of the biggest problems facing civilization, such as global warming, and proposing “radic...
gHacks: Users of the popular Bittorrent indexing website BTJunkie who try to access the site’s content in a web browser are not seeing the usual site layout,...
SophosLabs: Microsoft's Ryan Gavin announced a new strategy to keep the web safe… Keep your Internet Explorer up to date. ...
Protect the Internet Help us stop the Internet Blacklist Legislation Mozilla: On November 16th,...
Personally I've a feeling facebook is learning too much from Google Plus and its becoming too Google Plus-ish!, As we see they have cre...
The H-Security: The BitTorrent company has confirmed that its uTorrent servers were hacked on Tuesday 13 September and, for almost two ...
SophosLabs: Following the widely-publicised disgrace of Dutch digital certificate issuer DigiNotar, a person calling himself ComodoHack...
Google Chrome Blog: It’s that time of the year again for the Chrome team, when we pause on our anniversary to reflect on the amazing life and times of the...
</p> rockpapershotgun.com</b>: This just came in from Valve: “The PC version of the product will be pow...
Blogger Buzz: As you may have heard, things are starting to look a little different across many Google products—and today, Blogger is t...
Windows 8 News Blog: The recently created Building Windows 8 blog seems to be up in full swing, with new articles about the upcoming operating system...
gHacks: One “by-product” of the rapid release cycle of the Firefox web browser is the version number increase that goes along with ever...
This is part of a regular series of Google Apps updates that Google post every couple of weeks. Look for the label “Google Apps highlights” and subs...
Microsoft announced the release of a Camera Codec pack for Windows that offers support for the RAW file format from within Windows Explorer as well as Win...
Anonymous claims to have stolen around a gigabyte of classified NATO data ...
ghacks.net: Microsoft has just released a beta of a system recovery software. Microsoft Standalone System Sweeper has been designed to aid users in starti...
Facebook Security: Facebook is committed to bringing you a safe experience on the Internet, and today we are announcing several new...
Avira TechBlog: Great news – our Avira Premium Security Suite received the next AV-Test.org certificate, this time for the first quarte...
Avira TechBlog: The series continues – Avira AntiVir Personal and Avira AntiVir Professional received the April 2011 VB100 award! The t...
Follow up from: Hacker Gains Access To WordPress.com Servers</p> Tech Crunch: WordPress.com has revealed that someone has g...
BetaNews: Google found itself fending off criticisms from competitor Microsoft on Monday over whether or not its Google Apps product tr...
H-Online: In a post on the project's security announce mailing list, Ubuntu Release Manager Kate Stewart has reminded users th...
H-Online: It's a record for Microsoft: 9 critical and 8 important updates close a total of 64 security holes. In the worst case, a numb...
Google Talk Guru is a new Google bot that lets you ask simple questions. It’s “an experimental service that allows people to get information like sports resu...
In a bid to make Google Docs more appealing to workers and consumers, Google is rolling out a new feature that lets users of its productivity service discuss...
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Examiner.com wrote: As many people are aware, bullying today is not like it used to be. Back in the day, all one had to do to turn his bully in was give the...
TheNextWeb wrote: We’ve received a solid report from a reliable and proven source that Yahoo has sold social bookmarking site Delicious for $5m+.
Twitter has issued a statement to its mailing list encouraging third-party developers to cease creating applications that use the Twitter API solely to dupli...
TechSpot wrote: Microsoft this week reportedly signed off the Release to Manufacturing (RTM) build of Internet Explorer 9. The RTM build is 9.00.8112.16421.1...
Google Operation System: While most Chrome users have been upgraded to Chrome 10, Google is fixing the bugs from Chrome 11 and working on Chrome 12. A recent...
Avira’s Anti-Virus Technology Used by ZeoBIT in New System Utility – MacKeeper
BetaNews wrote: Thursday, Microsoft announced two updates to its Software Assurance Desktop Optimization Pack for enterprise Windows deployments available im...
Google is always looking for new ways to make it easier for developers to get started with our APIs. When you come across a new Google API, you often want to...
Mashable: Monday night, Adobe released a new, experimental Flash-to-HTML5 conversion tool codenamed Wallaby.
Mashable wrote: Google has broken new ground in the personal finance realm with the purchase of UK price comparison website BeatThatQuote for $61.5 million (...
Internet giant buys into security.
Washington Post: The CIA has launched a task force to assess the impact of the exposure of thousands of U.S. diplomatic cables and military files by WikiLeaks.
Today we’ve added a new notification to our search results that helps people know when a site may have been hacked. We’ve provided notices for malware for ye...
In our efforts to bring you expanded, go-anywhere access to your data, we’re happy to announce that LastPass recently acquired Xmarks!
Sophos Labs: Semi-nude pictures of Christina Aguilera leaked onto the internet earlier this week, causing fans of the pint-sized pop diva to feverishly run t...
Android activations have now surpassed 300,000 per day which equals the number of activations for Symbian worldwide, according to data provided by Google. It...
The Black Eyed Peas have taken over MySpace in an effort to improve its social entertainment offerings.
Twitter has seen a phenomenal amount of growth in the past year. In fact, the company claims more than 100 million new accounts were opened in 2010.
Mashable: Facebook is known for its hackathons — all-night coding sessions designed to help create new products or improve others. Now the company has announ...
Google officially unveiled the long-anticipated Chrome Web Store at its big Chrome event today.
Google revealed during its Chrome press conference today that its web browser now has 120 million users. That’s 50 million more users than it had less than s...
Mashable: Facebook and the Twitterverse have been a little quieter for the past several days, as some of the networks’ most famous users — including Lady Gag...
BetaNews: One year ago, Google gave the world its first look at Chrome OS, a project taking a new approach to thin clients and terminal computing. The long a...
BetaNews: In light of the recent rash of “history sniffing” bugs and the Federal Trade Commission’s proposed “do not track” list, Microsoft today announced t...
Mashable: Google just launched artillery deep into territories held by Microsoft and Apple by making one of the biggest announcements in its history: The rev...
Mashable: After launching its own incredibly successful, single-purpose hardware and a slew of free apps for mobile and PC devices, Amazon is getting ready t...
Avira programmers spent a lot of work and drastically overhauled the Avira AntiVir Rescue System which is now available in version 3.7.16. Next to a much bet...
The New York Time: The Google e-bookstore is finally open.
Google has upgraded its Priority Inbox, a recently launched Gmail feature that automatically places important mail on top of your inbox, with a couple of imp...
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has accepted a preliminary staff report that lays out a framework for Internet privacy and suggests a “do not track” ...
According to The Telegraph, German prosecutors are accusing two local hackers of breaking into the computers of over 50 pop stars, including Lady Gaga, Kelly...
Google has finally announced its new phone ‘Nexus S’ manufactured by Samsung and is the first phone powered by the latest Android 2.3 Gingerbread OS. Nexus S...
Google announced on Friday that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Widevine, a Seattle-based company that has focused on DRM and security for stream...
Though it is primarily known as a social networking site, Facebook is actually one of the top destinations for photo sharing, and a new user profile design c...
Mashable: The AOL-Yahoo rumors are heating up once again. This time, they involve splitting up the AOL empire into two divisions before engaging in a merger ...
Avira TechBlog: We discovered a new ransomware threat which is downloaded by a Trojan of the Oficla family. This downloaded threat replaces the MBR (master b...
Remember that peppy aftermarket 256GB SSD upgrade from PhotoFast that easily smoked (on paper anyway) the SSD found in Apple’s latest MacBook Air? It’s been ...
Microsoft appears to be preparing themselves to step into the streaming media field alongside Apple, Netflix, Hulu, and other competing providers who have jo...
The Anonymous group takes revenge after legal decision against Pirate Bay founders
A security man stands next to an anti-aircraft gun as he scans Iran’s nuclear enrichment facility in Natanz, 300 kil...
Controversial whistleblower website WikiLeaks was hit by another massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack earlier this morning. On Sunday, the sit...
Mashable: The distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that took down WikiLeaks as the site published secret U.S. embassy cables over the weekend could be...
Mashable: Bing is getting an early start on the “best of 2010” lists, releasing its compilation of the year’s most popular search terms a little more than a ...
Sophos Labs: There are two stories that have been the focus of much speculation that have come to some closure today. New information confirming many peoples...
CNN – Mashable: Today, users can start connecting with all their favorite social causes in one online sphere, as Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes has launche...
Mashable: Controversial whistleblower website WikiLeaks is reporting that it’s under a “mass distributed denial of service attack” just as its much-hyped lea...
The Swedish Appeals Court upheld the conviction and jail sentences of three co-founders behind the infamous The Pirate Bay service. Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij...
Miley Cyrus is eighteen years old since yesterday.
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined two organizations for serious breaches of the Data Protection Act – the first to be issued under new ...
Reuters: Google Inc plans to hire more than 2,000 people around the globe, bumping up its workforce as it expands into new markets and battles for talent wit...
BBC: The once dominant MySpace has turned to the company that stole its crown, Facebook, for help to drive users to its ailing site.
Native Google Docs support has finally arrived for Android and iOS (the mobile version of Google Docs has been available for over three years). Edits show up...
Controversial “naked” body scanners currently being tested at Hamburg’s airport are constantly malfunctioning due to folds in passengers’ clothing, broadcast...
Microsoft says Google is a bad habit, and it’s hard for people to break it in order to try alternatives, such as the company’s search engine, Bing. “It’s a h...
Facebook has announced a new product that will compete directly with the e-mail services provided by Yahoo, Microsoft, Google, and AOL. Facebook believes tra...
THE INTERNET SEARCH OUTFIT without a search engine, Yahoo has announced a package of products that it hopes will make it more relevant again.
We’ve all heard of graphics card makers optimizing their drivers for various benchmarks—some of you might recall the Quack story as one of the earlier exampl...
Mashable: We know that a number of Android tablets are coming in the next couple of months. But will these devices be able to compete with Apple’s iPad, whic...
BetaNews: Mozilla Wednesday released a significant update to the beta of its Firefox 4 browser. The update adds a new JavaScript JIT compiler, going by the n...
BetaNews: Ping, the social music service introduced as a part of iTunes 10 in September, can now be linked with Twitter, the popular micro blogging service a...
Mashable: Facebook’s running out of servers to handle its 500+ million users, so it has decided to build a new data center in North Carolina that will cost a...
CNet: The latest security fiasco on Facebook’s application platform may involve business pages rather than personal accounts: Sendible, a company that makes ...
Reuters: Google Inc will begin blocking Facebook and other Web services from accessing its users’ information, highlighting an intensifying rivalry between t...
Mashable: A beta version of Google Instant is now available on many U.S. iPhone and Android mobile devices.
Mashable: Months ago, Twitter released a clunky tool called Blackbird Pie for embedding tweets in blog posts. Today WordPress has radically simplified and im...
Mashable: It looks like cross-browser, bookmark syncing service Xmarks won’t be going out of business after all.
Mashable: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has sold 12% of his stake in the tech giant in a transaction worth over $1.3 billion.
A perverted hacker who spied upon more than 200 women via their webcams and microphones, after infecting their computers with malware, was arrested earlier t...
(CNN) — Facebook is the biggest name in social networking. But overnight, it got smaller.
Mashable: Facebook is rolling out a new breed of Pages called Friendship Pages that pull together the public wall posts, comments, photos (based on tags) and...
Nepali mobile network operator Ncell has installed the first 3G base station at the summit of Mount Everest, giving visitors, climbers and people living in t...
Software Magazine: Microsoft has launched the Apple version of its productivity suite, the Microsoft Office 2011. The package comes with a new version of Mic...
Many Ubuntu users will undoubtedly have strong opinions on Canonical’s recent proposal to replace the GNOME desktop with Unity in the Ubuntu 11.04 release. ...
SharesPost has valued Farmville developer Zynga Game Network at $5.51 billion, according to Business Week. That means it is now estimated to be bigger than c...
In a CNN interview Monday, Google CEO Eric Schmidt responded to questions about what Google knows about people by saying that if people don’t like having the...
Google knows it’s going to have a tough time convincing users to switch to its TV platform. As a result, over the next few weeks, the search giant is handing...
Mashable: There’s a new stocking stuffer for the social gamer on your holiday shopping list: Facebook Credits.
Believe it or not, Google hasn’t forgotten about Feedburner. The RSS feed service has received an experimental new interface that better matches Google Analy...
Currently cyber criminals try to make fast money by spamming out emails in masses in Germany which allegedly stem from an Advocate specialized in copyright. ...
Mashable: The Wi-Fi Alliance is about to drop a wireless connectivity bombshell called Wi-Fi Direct. It will enable device-to-device connections using curren...
Last night Facebook announced that it had over 500 000 000 users.
Windows 7 might be selling like hotcakes but that’s only going to make it even harder for Microsoft to top. When asked about the riskiest product bet that th...
New York (CNN) — Social networking site MySpace, while acknowledging it shares profile information with advertisers, said Saturday that it is taking action a...
(Reuters) – Google Inc said its “Street View” cars around the world accidentally collected more personal data than previously disclosed, and that it was chan...
Rules were made to be broken; that whole 55 MPH thing happens to be my favorite. Western Digital had larger aspirations; the kinds that considered milestones...
After the news that the new MacBook Airs do not ship with Flash pre-installed (which is news considering Flash has been part of Mac OS X for a very long time...
Escom LLC has sold the controversial domain name Sex.com for $13 million, according to The Register. Documents filed in a California court say that the domai...
Last mail I got from 12Seconds.com:
Facebook has proposed a solution to a recent security flaw that allowed apps to transmit personal data that involves encrypting the relevant string of number...
Google Official Blog:
218 million “class members” probably won’t settle for Farmville dollar
Facebook continues its quest to revamp its popular Photos feature with the launch of the number one most requested feature of them all: drag-and-drop...
Google’s ultra high speed fiber network — which the company says can offer speeds of up to 1 gigabit per second — is about to get its first trial outside of ...
BERLIN — Google on Thursday said 244,000 people in Germany had asked the company to remove images of their houses and apartments from its Street View maps, b...
A federal judge in New Jersey has cleared the way for a landmark criminal case targeting CAPTCHA circumvention to proceed to trial.
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Opera today released the first alpha of Opera 11, the next version of the company’s award-winning desktop web browser. Opera 11 is the first Opera browser to...
Apple is cashing in on the popularity of its iPhone and iPad to boost demand for its oldest product, the Macintosh.
Researcher sees ‘unprecedented wave of Java exploitation’
Google has no plans to resume using its Street View cars to collect information about the location of Wi-Fi networks, a practice that led to a flurry of priv...
Kaspersky Lab now admits that people attempting to buy Kaspersky’s security products on Oct. 17 were redirected by hackers to a scareware site with links to ...
HAVOC CAUSING hacker activist group Operation Payback has extended its reach and strangled the life out of the UK Intellectual Property Office’s website.
Two regional websites for Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU) were hacked on Tuesday by unknown perpetrators claiming to be Turkish followin...
Intel has announced plans to invest between $6 billion and $8 billion on its next-generation 22nm manufacturing process across several existing US factories ...
A university professor in Sweden has “hope for humanity” after the thief who stole his laptop backed up all his data and mailed it to him on a USB stick.
If the internet is feeling a little more crowded these days, there’s good reason.
Maybe your main problem with tattoos is probably the fact that you’ve never been able to play Pong on them. But those problems seem to be over now that an in...
The New Acrobat X is finally here!
Intel regularly tweaks its price list with nary a word to the masses, but the Tech Report caught chipzilla red-handed this time. The site reports that Intel ...
Just last week NVidia distributed a beta version of their Forceware drivers 260.89. The main feature was support for their recently launched GeForce GT 430, ...
While NVidia’s big news may have been its upcoming budget-range GeForce GT 430 1GB cards which leaked out earlier this month, it seems that the company has b...
The good news is that overseas hackers apparently did not change the grades of more then 100 thousand University of North Florida students when they broke in...
Google found a nice way to wish you Happy Birthday. If you visit Google’s homepage when you are signed in and it’s your birthday, you’ll see a special doodle...
Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, has announced on their blog that the site will soon be offering new features and controls. The features include New Facebook G...
Some people didn’t like his comments about downloading…
Very soon, the first build of Opera 11 will be released, and with it will come the long-awaited support for browser extensions.
Microsoft and Facebook Wednesday unveiled some new search tools for Bing which integrate data from a user’s circle of friends into Bing’s search results.
Firefox’s JavaScript engine, Spidermonkey (including the Tracemonkey and Jaegermonkey JITs) is now faster than Webkit’s JSCore on both Sunspider and V8. Grea...
Welcome to our first release of the new Mozilla about:support add-on.
Windows Phone 7 officially launched 11Oct at a press event in NYC Monday morning. You can check out more here – http://www.windowsphone7.com
As predicted Adobe AIR for Android is now available in the Android Market. Go get it.
Accessing Facebook from a public computer or Internet cafe can now be done more securely.
Windows/Mac/Linux: Chrome has hit version 8 in its Dev builds, adding more solid graphics acceleration to the web using your video hardware, along with a few...
The Redmond company today announced that it plans to release 16 security bulletins on coming Tuesday, Microsoft’s official monthly Patchday in October. Never...
How does one say in French: “We’re gonna make an example out of you, boy”
The Stuxnet Trojan is very well covered in the media as more and more details about its sophisticated code become public. It abuses four previously unknown s...
Google has finally decided to allow users to turn off the controversial ‘conversation view’ threading functionality in Gmail.
Microsoft announced that it has collaborated with WordPress and now onwards it will be the default blogging platform for Windows Live users. This means Micro...
The New York Times is reporting a rising number of law suits against some major players because of their use of persistent web tracking:
The Anti-Botnet Initiative has now been started. The initiative is a cooperation of eco and The German Federal Bureau for Information Security (BSI) and has ...
The Phoenix New Times has reported that the CEO of LifeLock ID theft protection service of Tempe, Ariz., has had his identity used by rip-off artists 13 time...
Hewlett-Packard has announced it has expanded the May 14, 2009, recall of its laptop battery packs. The company will replace the defective batteries at no co...
On the 2nd day at Google I/O 2010 developer event, Google has announced Android 2.2 with Flash along with Google TV, a new technology for television and Inte...
Not one to rest on its laurels, the Google Chrome team is hard at work on Chrome 6. The official move to the 6.0 designation in the Chromium developer build...
Video chatting is on the rise. Yesterday, we got to take a look at Qik’s mobile video chat client for the Sprint EVO 4G, and today, we get to take a look at...
Google today said it will stop collecting Wi-Fi network data from its Street View cars, after an investigation from the German Data Protection Authority (DP...
Russian-based PROXIEZ-NET, which was known to allegedly host 13 Zbot command-and-control servers has been shut down by its upstream provider DIGERNET, accord...
The All Facebook blog (not an official Facebook site) is reporting that Facebook’s Public Policy Director, Tim Sparapani has said the company will install pr...
I’m constantly reminded how slow email actually is.
Three words sum up Microsoft’s patent infringement suit against Salesforce.com: Competition by litigation. Microsoft knows plenty about competition by litiga...
Last week, VMware and Salesforce.com announced a new partnership around VMforce, a Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering aimed at enterprise Java developers...
Information has leaked that Facebook is set to roll out location-based features for users and brands as soon as this month. According to Advertising Age, us...
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has finally begun to enable top-level domain names based on non-Latin alphabets. The first th...
Smartphones carrying Google’s Android operating system outsold the iPhone in the first quarter of 2010, according to new research out today from NPD.
Exactly one year after making its public debut, the Wireless Gigabit Alliance has published its spec for the unlicensed 60 GHz band, which it is pushing as a...
The U.S. Department of Justice has announced that federal agencies have made 700 seizures of counterfeit Cisco hardware worth more than $143 million in the l...
The University of California, Berkeley, has found that more than half young adults have become more aware of Internet privacy issues than they were five year...
With Congress’ dance card already overflowing with major social and policy reforms, including in the financial sector, the likelihood that it could pass a m...
Last week, we took a look at Mint’s new app for Android, which lets users track their finances and budget on their mobile device in a safe, read-only app. Mi...
According to Australian Macworld, a new version of the MacBook Air may show up in the Apple Online Store tomorrow morning. The same source who correctly pre...
Demand for Evernote’s notetaking tool is growing at an ever increasing rate. The startup has just surpassed three million users, which means the company has...
In the UK, Google was forced to give its email service Gmail a different name, Googlemail, because of a trademark dispute. These disputes take a long time (...
Many bloggers and commentators are making much of the fact that San Mateo police served a search warrant on the home of Gizmodo blogger Jason Chen and confis...
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A spokesman for Australian Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has said that legislation that would set up a $120 million Internet censorship system requi...
A new blog post from the Twitter media team suggests that the company will launch an embeddable tweets feature sometime tomorrow.
YouTube’s movie rental service is still in its infancy, and it still only offers a small selection of films, but that could change quickly. YouTube exec Hun...
Gmail has a new feature for Firefox 3.6 and Google Chrome users: drag-and-drop file attachments. The feature is very straightforward — just drag files from y...
Niels Provos of the Google Security Team has blogged about the rise of malicious web sites carrying rogue security products, which the Google team calls “Fak...
UK security firm Context Information Security Ltd., is making available a browser-based tool that will demonstrate clickjacking techniques that were discusse...
This might not mean much if you’re not writing or editing a tech blog, but news that the AP – whose stylebook is still the standard for all things grammar a...
Dr. Johannes Ullrich at SANS brought up a good point in his morning podcast (Stormcast 296 ) about widespread transportation shutdowns and disaster recovery ...
The first volume licensing arrangements for Microsoft Office 2010 will be made through company partners on May 1, almost two weeks earlier than expected. Th...
Taken from Google Official Blog:
Google’s adding an intriguing new feature to its Twitter search options –- the ability to “replay” a moment in time to see what people were tweeting about a...
Today the Library of Congress is announcing that it’s doing its part to digitally preserve each and every public tweet since the beginning of time … err Twi...
Twitter has just announced a new feature and API for desktop applications: users streams. The revelation was made by Twitter’s Director of Platform Ryan Sar...
Earlier this year we predicted that Twitter would use geotagging to identify physical places via Twitter, and today Evan Williams announced at the Chirp con...
In kicking off Twitter’s Chirp developer conference, the company finally revealed its long mysterious registered user number, and it’s surprisingly large (b...
Although there’s a heated Adobe vs. Apple discussion going on, creative professionals are probably much more excited about the latest version of Adobe’s Cre...
Palm, the smartphone pioneer, is on the block. The company, which in recent years has been eclipsed by the iPhone (and to some extent by Google’s Android OS...
Twitter has just announced that it has acquired Atebits, the company behind the popular Tweetie iPhone app and Mac desktop application.
European telecommunication giants are preparing to fight Google over the data traffic and bandwidth that is consumed due to YouTube videos, according to a n...
Apple has been challenging Google on many fronts this week — first with its mobile platform, then with its advertising platform. Earlier today, its developer...
One week ago, we heard that popular BitTorrent search engine Isohunt had been ordered by a U.S. judge to remove copyright-infringing content from their webs...
The United Kingdom parliament has passed the Digital Economy Bill, an extensive and controversial piece of legislation, by a vote of 189 to 47. The legislat...
Back in November, we started hearing murmurs that Google was considering whether or not to factor site speed into its search ranking algorithm. In a blog po...
There could be a denial-of-availability risk to the enterprise in the new anti-piracy law passed by the British Parliament yesterday. Employees using company...
Multitasking, the feature that has been the absolute top of every iPhone user’s want list –which, by proxy became a major marketing point for both Android an...
Search terms that are censored in China:</p>
Hong Kong-based security firm Network Box reported that Korea was the country of origin for 31.1 percent of the malware on the Internet in March. In February...
Just after the launch of iPad, Apple has just announced iPhone OS 4.0 Event at 8th April 10 AM PT. A lot more speculations are being made about the upcoming ...
“Shadows in the Cloud” hang over the otherwise sunny PRC
A year-long international investigation concluded in the last few weeks with 700 police in Romania launching raids and taking into custody 70 people from thr...
Taken from Official Google:
As expected, Microsoft has pushed out a mandatory update to the Xbox 360 today, which adds support for USB storage devices, expanding the memory capacity of ...
The FBI has said it will be checking to see if any federal wiretapping or computer-related laws were broken by a Pennsylvania school district in connection w...
A very dodgy looking PDF file appeared on Nintendo’s Japanese investor relations site with the title “Launch of New Portable Game Machine” (PDF available her...
A spokesperson for Adobe told us that on the morning of April 12 at 11:00 a.m. EDT, the company will hold a global online launch event for all of the compone...
The Inquirer security news site were reporting that the 25-year-old arrested by French police for hacking a Twitter data base and accessing U.S. President Ba...
Lots of little newsworthy updates recently . . . they’ve been well-covered elsewhere, but we wanted to make sure our readers saw them as well.
New Scientist is reporting that a massive database culled from the public profiles of 210 million Facebook users has been destroyed before its anticipated — ...
Tom Gallagher, senior security test lead with Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing group, was extensively quoted in news stories today as he described how his g...
Mozilla.org has made public a report that says its Firefox browser has 30 percent market share worldwide. Assuming it’s true, that is a six percent increase ...
With Google owning YouTube, the Internet’s principal delivery system for Flash-based video, it was perhaps inevitable that the company would bundle the Flash...
There seems to be an established procedure used by government officials who want to censor Internet traffic: begin requiring Google and ISPs to filter pornog...
Have you ever wanted to quickly send a file to a friend who’s online? Now you can share pictures, documents and other files directly with your friends while ...
Could the manufacturers of DVD players (no, not just Blu-ray, but the original DVDs) owe back royalties to Alcatel-Lucent for the use of patented technology ...
Google Inc., owner of YouTube, said an outage of the popular video-sharing site Thursday was technical and not caused by outside tampering.
Google and the Chinese government are continuing to trade shots in the PR battle over net censorship. Earlier in the week, Google moved its Chinese search fa...
In the Pwn2Own hacking contest at the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver, Canada, security researchers and hackers quickly hacked three of the major...
There is a risk to computer security from governments. Regulatory changes, even if they are very positive measures, can impose huge demands on an enterprise ...
In spite of the polarized, poisonous atmosphere in Washington, D.C., generated by President Barak Obama’s health care reform campaign, two Senators from very...
BürgerCERT, Germany’s government information security organization, is recommending that Web users NOT use the Firefox browser until Mozilla fixes a vulnerab...
Google's decision to stop censoring search results in China may lead the Chinese government to block access to its s...
Google has put up a page that shows what Web services are currently being blocked by the Chinese government.
Google.cn is now redirecting to google.com.hk [ Hong Kong google servers ] – this has happened after the cyber attack on google china servers in december. ri...
— 7.68 Terabits/s for growing Asian market — $300 million cost (from consortium of six companies) — 10,000 km length (Chikura in Japan to Los Angeles) — Incr...
The DarkReading site is carrying a story about brand-protection firm MarkMonitor's finding that phishing increased 62 percent in 2009 with 565,502 attacks...
At age five most kids can hop, skip and tie their shoes without help. Google Code turns five this week, and while they’re still working on the shoelaces thin...
Scheduling meetings is tough, but rescheduling is even harder. We all know how frustrating it can be to try to find just the right time that accommodates eve...
You can now access Google Buzz from your Android mobiles easily using the official Google Buzz widget, that lets you post text and photos with a single tap.
Del Harvey who leads Twitter’s Trust and Safety team blogged yesterday that the social networking/micro-blogging service has begun filtering all links in Twi...
I use Google Reader a lot — not only to stay on top of the news, but also to find interesting blog posts and articles. I’m always telling my friends about Go...
Swiss security blog Abuse.ch has reported that the worst Zeus botnet hosting ISP was taken off line yesterday, cutting the botnet’s number of servers from 24...
We’ve long believed that personalization makes search more relevant and fun. For nearly five years, Google has been tailoring results with personalized searc...
Google is set to launch an app store for business next week, Mashable has learned from sources close to the company. It will be focused around creating softw...
New comScore data shows that Facebook and Twitter use has skyrocketed on mobile devices over the past year, and that on-the-go MySpace use is now on the decl...
Communications security firm FaceTime of Belmont, Calif., has released the results of a survey (of 1654 people) that strongly indicates we are all using a lo...
The battle over RealNetworks’ DVD copying software, called RealDVD, has finally come to a close, and Real has lost.
“…in that space one can easily indulge in depravity, lies, vulgarity…”
Microsoft Vice President of Trustworthy Computing Scott Charney, in a keynote address at the RSA security conference in San Francisco yesterday, called for q...
Remember Microsoft’s action against 277 Waledac domains last week? Well, that’s one way of going after a botnet…
It won’t work if you have a rootkit infection, but it won’t blue screen your machine either.
For anyone that missed Microsoft CEO’s Q&A during the Search Marketing Expo West yesterday, a transcript is now available online. I went through and pick...
Last month, Baidu, the leading search engine in China, filed suit against US-based Internet registrar Register.com, in a legal event that took place at the h...
Popular instant messaging, voice chat, and video conferencing client Skype and Skype Lite are no longer available on Windows Mobile devices.
London, England (CNN) — Twitter this week endured a number of “phishing” attacks, in which some users unwittingly gave out their passwords to malicious sites...
There were a couple of news items that I thought were interesting enough, albeit unrelated, to comment on. The first (story here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi...
If history is any gauge, this is probably the first of several incidents like this.
Since yesterday evening, PlayStation 3 users have been reporting difficulties in connecting their consoles to the PlayStation Network for online gameplay and...
A survey of 54,000 households (129,000 people) commissioned by National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) last year found that 30 perc...
Symantec recently upgraded their scanner on VirusTotal to include their new reputation-based security engine. That has caused a spike in their detection rate...
Representatives of computer companies and governments meeting at the EastWest Institute security meeting in Brussels said that an industry culture of obscure...
Peter Coogan at Symantec put up a very interesting blog post yesterday about a crimeware kit called SpyEye v1.0.7 (on sale now on Russian sites — $500) that ...
“YOURLS is a small set of PHP scripts that will allow you to run your own URL shortening service (a la TinyURL). You can make it private or public, you can p...
(CNN)(The Frisky) — For anyone who is remotely active on Facebook, you no doubt have been faced at some point with inane updates on one of your friend’s kid’...
Making good on a promise delivered just about one year ago, Facebook announced that its popular chat feature can now be accessed through any Jabber (XMPP)-co...
Bruce Schneier, in his blog Schneier on Security http://www.schneier.com/ drew attention to this great interview with an ex-Nigerian-419 scammer on the Scam-...
Fake antivirus software (a.k.a misleading applications or rogue antivirus) is big business nowadays with Symantec reporting 43 million installation attempts ...
When you spend your day scouring the Internet (and my blog 😉 ) for news about computer security topics you cover a lot of territory. Once in a while you just...
Google has confirmed that it’s future operating system Chrome OS will have an integrated media player that will offer basic codec support , so that users ca...
The most popular micro blogging network ‘Twitter’ has now added local trends support. This new feature allows users to track Trending topics on twitter relat...
Microsoft Corporation has almost started assembling the final build of Office 2010 aka (MS office 14) RTM version. As per the news leaked on Wzor, Developmen...
Adobe Flash is a well well known plugin used today by most of the internet users. Its next upgrade i.e version 10.1 will get private browsing support. Flash ...
Some questionable sites associated with the Winigard family of rogue security products pulls it from this location, which appears to belong to a graphic desi...
The Danwei web site (Chinese media, advertising, and urban life) is carrying a rippingly funny blog piece by Alice Xin Liu about a recent Chinese government ...
Virgin Media, the UK telecommunications giant that supplies TV, phone and Internet services, has begun to use deep packet inspection determine if its Interne...
Have you stood outside the restaurant and thought whether to go inside? Google solves this problem very easily. It has come out with yet another mind bobblin...
California software company Cybersitter LLC, has sued the People’s Republic of China and seven computer manufacturers in U.S. Federal court for stealing 3,00...
There has been extensive news coverage this week of Adobe’s plans for ramped-up security in its popular Reader, Acrobat and Flash Player applications, especi...
Seal Shield, a Jacksonville, Fla., company that makes washable computer keyboards and mice, said it will introduce the world’s first washable cell phone at t...
Mike Cardwell, an IT consultant in Nottingham, UK, reported on his blog finding a Y2010 bug in Spam Assassin. He found an error in a rule that Spam Assassin ...
With a dazzling laser show, the 26th Chaos Communication Congress (26c3) in Berlin, the last big security conference of 2009, has ended. If you haven’t been ...
It’s the time of year to make predictions. I only have one: in 2010, governments around the world will BEGIN to increase their efforts to do something about ...
Atif Mushtaq, a researcher at FireEye security company, has coordinated a global effort to take down of one of the top 10 botnets – Mega-D.
AV-Comparatives Summary Reports 2009 Available! Summary Report 2009
Performance comparative test result is available!
This is the ‘12 scams of Christmas’ I mentioned in last post:
Tanya has just posted over on Kaspersky Russian site about losses caused by Internet fraudsters in England and Wales. If you want to practice your Russian, h...
After months of negotiations, US President Barack Obama has finally chosen a Chief of CyberSecurity – Mr Howard A Schmidt. Confirmation of the appointment is...
For the first time, the FBI has issued a public warning about the threat of rogue anti-virus software, which the agency said has resulted in more than $150 ...
The Hacker News reported: For all the talk about China and the Syrian Electronic Army, it seems there’s another threat to U.S. cyber interests i.e. Iran. Se...
I recently came across the file “FlashPlayer.exe” during the course of regular research.
Cross-posted from Evernote blog:
For about two and a half hours on Monday, students at Oxford University couldn’t access Google Docs after the University’s Computing Services team decided to...
Cross-posted from Gizmodo:
Adobe posted a vulnerability report warning that vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader and Acrobat XI (11.0.1) and earlier versions are being exploited in the wild...
h-Online: According to Symantec’s 2012 Norton Cybercrime Report, worldwide, private individuals have suffered approximately $100 billion (more than £69 billi...
According to the AntiSec hacker group, they claim to hold more than 12 million Apple iOS Unique Device IDs, in addition to other personal information from de...
ZDNet: Security researchers from FireEye, AlienVault, and DeependResearch have intercepted targeted malware attacks utilizing the latest Java zero day exploi...
v3.co.uk: The Windows version of the Crisis Trojan is far more dangerous than first thought, being capable of infecting VMware virtual machine images, Window...
TheHackerNews: A team of Hackers called, “r00tBeer Security Team” today hack into official blog of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) which is a American multinati...
FirstPost: A hacker Friday revealed a security flaw that he claimed could make Apple’s iPhone particularly vulnerable to text message cheating.
h-online: Syrian activists, journalists and opposition group members are reportedly under attack by malware claiming to be a security tool that will help pro...
BBC: Hacking group Anonymous has aided a global search for a cyber-vandal who defaced a charity website.
h-online: Three weeks after releasing LibreOffice 3.5.5, The Document Foundation has confirmed that security holes in earlier versions of the open source Lib...
Mashable Wrote:
h-online: At the Black Hat hacker conference in Las Vegas, encryption expert Moxie Marlinspike promised that his CloudCracker web service was able to crack a...
h-online: A data leak at the meetOne dating site allowed anyone to access private data including the plaintext passwords, email addresses and real names of t...
h-Online: Citizenlab has released a detailed analysis of the activities of a trojan in which the experts conclude that the malware is most likely closely rel...
iol scitech: London – A British computer hacker accused by the United States of breaking into top secret military and space agency networks will learn the re...
FoxNews: International hacking group Anonymous took at least 10 Australian government websites offline briefly Tuesday in a series of escalating attacks over...
H-Online: Spammers are currently sending large volumes of spam to users of cloud storage service provider Dropbox. The H’s associates at heise Security have ...
Late last week, NVIDIA confirmed that the database for its forums web site had been broken into by unauthorized third parties, with data from more than 400,0...
ZDNet: Phandroid’s AndroidForums.com has been hacked. The database that powers the site was compromised and more than 1 million user account details were sto...
Copied from LA-Times:
Microsoft has released an unscheduled, non-patch day update for Windows to update the Windows Update function itself. However, according to reports from read...
v3.co.uk: Card processing firm Global Payments has provided more detail on the attack on its computer systems earlier this year, warning that the attackers m...
The H-Online: In response to the Flame worst-case scenario, Microsoft has now integrated a custom block list feature for its certificate store under Windows....
The H-Online: There have still been no official statements on the causes and extent of the recent password leaks at LinkedIn, eHarmony and Last.fm. A credibl...
The H-Online: A list with several million passwords belonging to users of the music community site Last.fm has been posted on the internet. The site owners h...
H-Online: Internet forums are currently circulating a list containing over six million password hashes which allegedly originate from LinkedIn. The passwords...
H-Online: UK regulator PhonepayPlus (fomerly known ICSTIS) has imposed a fine of £50,000 on a payment provider used for an Android malware-based fraud and fo...
Naked Security wrote:
Microsoft Malware Protection Center wrote:
H-Online: Yahoo! introduced a new “browser”, Axis, last night, both as a standalone application for iPhone and iPad and as a browser extension on Chrome, Fir...
H-Online: Users of Windows XP are reporting more problems with recent automatic updates. Three security updates for .NET Framework 2.0 and 3.5 are at the cen...
GFI Wrote: In September, our friends at Sophos wrote about a fake BBC website offering up the “chance” to work from home for predictably large sums of money....
theregister.co.uk wrote:
H-Online Says:
TheHackerNews: Google got Pwned ? NO Few Algerian Script Kiddies try to spread fake rumors that they Hack and Deface the Giant Search engine “Google Iranian”...
The H-Online: Tor developers Arturo Filasto and Jacob Appelbaum have been working on a new tool they call the OONI-probe. OONI stands for Open Observatory of...
The H-Online: According to a blog post, a modified version of the Skype VoIP software can be used to easily find out the IP address of any valid Skype user. ...
The H-Online: The whitec0de.com blog reports that, for $20, a member of a hacker forum offered to crack any Hotmail account within a minute – and that he kep...
The H-Online: Online forums have, for some time, apparently been the target of hackers who inject additional code. However, the attackers aren’t interested i...
The H-Security: The head of Google's Webspam team, Matt Cutts, announced on Twitter that Google has sent out a message to the webmasters of 20,000 sites i...
As I said in the other post, Iran’s Central Bank has announced that the electronic information of 3 million customers of 10 Iranian banks have been compromis...
SophosLabs: More malware for the Mac OS X platform has been discovered, hot on the heels of the revelation that some 600,000 Macs had been infected in the Fl...
An Iranian hacker published the information about some 3 million debit cards of 10 Iranian banks, including codes and passwords.
Anti-virus experts at Trend Micro have discovered ransomware which blocks systems from booting. In contrast to the localised trojans, which are widely spread...
SophosLabs: Brian Krebs is reporting that MasterCard and Visa are warning member-banks of a payment processor breach that may impact more than 10,000,000 cre...
Cross posted from GFI, Sunbelt Blog:
The H-Security: On Tuesday, a user who is known as “lawabidingcitizen” posted an unusual request to the Full Disclosure mailing list, a forum that is mainly ...
The Register: Pro-China hackers have started spoofing security firm AlienVault’s email address in spam messages in an attempt to infect pro-Tibetan recipient...
SophosLabs: A group of hackers are claiming to have stolen the details of more than 70,000 users of the Digital Playground porn website.
SophosLabs/NakedSecurity: With alleged Anonymous hackers belonging to the LulzSec group arrested and charged yesterday, and the startling relevation that pro...
BBC: Hackers gained “full functional control” of key Nasa computers in 2011, the agency’s inspector general has told US lawmakers.
SophosLabs: This week has seen the annual Mobile World Congress event. For 2012, the giants of the mobile tech world are back in Barcelona to captivate the i...
Symantec Connect:
At the RSA Conference 2012, McAfee’s Chief Technology Officer, Stuart McClure, and several of his colleagues, have demonstrated a whole range of different at...
Sunbelt: Twilight fans who normally frequent the official website of Stephenie Meyer, infamous writer of the said book and saga, may have found their systems...
SophosLabs: Want a free password for one of the world’s most popular adult websites?
The H-Online: According to a report, hackers, allegedly from China, had access to telecoms equipment manufacturer Nortel‘s IT systems over a period of severa...
SophosLabs: A hacker, identified as a 17-year-old based in Morocco, claims to have stolen the personal information of 350,000 users from hardcore porn mavens...
SophosLabs: It’s Valentine’s Day tomorrow and the spammers are out in force to make the most of unwitting shoppers on the international day of love.
The Hacker News:
The Hacker News:
The Register: Microsoft plans to publish nine updates next Tuesday – four of which are critical – as part of a Valentine’s Day edition of its Patch Tuesday u...
The Inquirer: A Hacker using the pseudonyms ‘Weedgrower’ or ‘X-pOSed’ claims that he has compromised Intel and obtained sensitive data.
SophosLabs: The CIA’s website was brought down for some hours last night by what appears to have been an internet distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.
SophosLabs: One of the largest ISPs in The Netherlands has shut down its email services after hackers posted usernames, passwords, phone numbers, addresses a...
The H-Online: The Debian developers have pointed out, in an announcement on the debian-announce mailing list, that – three years after it was released –Debia...
The Hacker News: Latest Notification in The Hacker News Vault by a Hacker named “Xenu (Casi)” from r00tw0rm Team that There are 63 Blind SQL injection Vulner...
Mashable: LinkedIn on Thursday announced it has 150 million members in its network, a 20 million increase over November.
SophosLabs: Can hackers really cause as much bloodshed as 353 Imperial Japanese Navy fighters, bombers and torpedo planes launched from six aircraft carriers...
The H-Online: Hackers operating under the name Swagg Security have said they were responsible for breaching the security of Chinese electronics manufacturer ...
Mashable: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has been under fire from world leaders to step down this week. He’s also under fire from hacktivist group Anonymou...
H-Online: Researchers at Ruhr-Universität Bochum in Germany have announced that they have cracked the A5-GMR-1 and A5-GMR-2 encryption algorithms used in sat...
The Hacker News: Roland Dela Paz, a threat response engineer with Trend Micro have discovered a piece of malicious software that automatically uploads its st...
The H-Online: Versions 1.7.5 and 2.5.1 of the open source Joomla! content management system (CMS) have been released to address two information disclosure vu...
Mashable: Google just debuted a project dedicated to attacking some of the biggest problems facing civilization, such as global warming, and proposing “radic...
The H-Online: The German Federal Office of Information Security (BSI (German), BSI English) has compiled security recommendations for Windows PCs that will p...
The H-Security: The PHP developers are working to fix a critical security vulnerability in PHP that they introduced with a recent security patch. The current...
Earlier today we have seen a new Facebook clickjacking scam which spreads quite fast.</p> I KNOW WHEN YOU LOOK AT MY PROFILE USING...
Drew Houston's wildly popular service allows people to access the latest version of all their digital stuff on any device no matter where they are. Every ...
The H-Online: The first patches for the zero-day flaw in Adobe's Acrobat and Reader applications, which the company confirmed was being...
The H-Online Security: Microsoft has confirmed a report from Budapest-based Laboratory of Cryptography and System Security (CrySyS), wh...
The H-Security: In a blog posting, the MyBB development team has confirmed that the download package for version 1.6.4 of MyBB had been...
The building housing the Dutch company DigiNotar, which issues digital Web site certificates an...
SophosLabs: Following the widely-publicised disgrace of Dutch digital certificate issuer DigiNotar, a person calling himself ComodoHack...
Business Insider: A new poll in France says 7 out of 10 people think Microsoft did more to change the world than Apple. We think we wou...
SophosLabs: Pop singer Pink has posted an angry message to hackers, who she claims stole photographs from her Facebook page.But was Pin...
TheHackerNews.com: The hacker warns the Internet community that he has access to 4 other high-profile CAs, among them being GlobalSign,...
rockpapershotgun.com: Are you a German teenager? Then do we have some good news for you! After a short seventeen year-long wai...
TechSpot: Wikileaks found itself the victim of a cyberattack on Tuesday, shortly after the release of thousands of US State Department ...
</p> rockpapershotgun.com</b>: This just came in from Valve: “The PC version of the product will be pow...
SophosLabs: Imagine the scene. You buy a second-hand laptop using it to, among other things, have secret sexy video chats ...
SophosLabs: Julianne Hough is famous in the United States not just for being an actress and country music singer, and dating “Ame...
Read it yourself…</p> ———- Forwarded message ———- ...
Google: Today we received reports of attempted SSL man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks against Google users, whereby someone tried to get ...
</p> H-Online: A vulnerability in its forum software has been exploited by a hacker to compromise mobile phone mak...
H-Online: The German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) is warning of online shops which infect users with malicious softwa...
Google Operating System Blog: Google found a way to solve the problem of Android patents and it's only three times more expensive than ...
This is part of a regular series of Google Apps updates that Google post every couple of weeks. Look for the label “Google Apps highlights” and subs...
H-Online: Officially, Adobe's current update for Flash Player has closed only 13 holes, but unofficially it is said to have closed seve...
SOFTPEDIA: According to statistics gathered by cloud security provider Zscaler, 56.4% of enterprise users have out of date Adobe Reader...
My Personal Opinion: I doubt if that site is really their official website or not</p> Sophos Labs: Within da...
Anonymous claims to have stolen around a gigabyte of classified NATO data ...
TUAW: According to the results of a massive survey by Hunch.com, Mac people are frequently young, vegetarian city-dwellers who like mod...
Sophos Labs: Millions of blog owners around the world are being advised to consider their password security, after WordPress.com was ha...
Follow up from: Hacker Gains Access To WordPress.com Servers</p> Tech Crunch: WordPress.com has revealed that someone has g...
Tech Crunch: WordPress.com has revealed that someone has gained access to several of the their servers this morning and that VIP custom...
BetaNews: Google found itself fending off criticisms from competitor Microsoft on Monday over whether or not its Google Apps product tr...
H-Online: In a post on their home page, the Flock developers have announced that support for their Chromium-based social web browser wi...
SophosLabs: Are you in the habit of having complete strangers email you naked pictures of themselves?</p> That's the only reason I can th...
from Schneier on Security by Schneier:
Play.com, one of the largest online retailers of DVDs, CDs, MP3s, books and gadgets, emailed its customers yesterday admitting to a security breach in its ma...
Mashable: The porn industry is rumored to win a major battle this week with the possible approval of the .xxx domain.
Symantec: Only a few days ago, Japan experienced one of the worst earthquakes in its history. The earthquake registered 8.9 on the Richter scale and triggere...
TheNextWeb wrote: We’ve received a solid report from a reliable and proven source that Yahoo has sold social bookmarking site Delicious for $5m+.
Gmail Blog posted:
Imagine loading Gmail and noticing that all your messages have been deleted. This is a real problem for many Gmail users who thought that they lost all of th...
A new study from New York securities firm NYPPEX estimates Facebook’s enterprise value is now much higher than Yahoo and EBay, at $41.2 billion and significa...
Earlier this year I received a Facebook invite in my Yahoo! Mail account from none other than Angelina Jolie herself. I kid you not.
Just a day after Dutch police arrested a 16-year-old boy in connection with WikiLeaks-related denial-of-service attacks, websites belonging to the Netherland...
Sophos Labs: Semi-nude pictures of Christina Aguilera leaked onto the internet earlier this week, causing fans of the pint-sized pop diva to feverishly run t...
Mashable: The Pew Center is out with a new report that focuses on Twitter usage in the U.S., and it reveals that 6% of the entire U.S. adult population uses ...
Android activations have now surpassed 300,000 per day which equals the number of activations for Symbian worldwide, according to data provided by Google. It...
The Black Eyed Peas have taken over MySpace in an effort to improve its social entertainment offerings.
Twitter has seen a phenomenal amount of growth in the past year. In fact, the company claims more than 100 million new accounts were opened in 2010.
Google revealed during its Chrome press conference today that its web browser now has 120 million users. That’s 50 million more users than it had less than s...
Mashable: Windows Phone 7 has been on the market for a little more than a month, but the company still isn’t disclosing how many devices featuring its revamp...
Mashable: Facebook and the Twitterverse have been a little quieter for the past several days, as some of the networks’ most famous users — including Lady Gag...
Symantec Connect: WikiLeaks.org is in the news after their recent publications linked to leaked government documents. Spammers are now leveraging the current...
Sunbelt Blog:
Mashable: Tumblr has returned to the web after a full day’s, err, vacation.
Symantec Connect: We have become familiar enough with malware creators poisoning popular search engine terms through SEO techniques in order to deliver their...
The New York Time: The Google e-bookstore is finally open.
Wired: SAO PAULO — Despite widespread speculation at the time, a massive power outage that left 18 out of the 26 Brazilian states in the dark for up to six h...
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has accepted a preliminary staff report that lays out a framework for Internet privacy and suggests a “do not track” ...
According to The Telegraph, German prosecutors are accusing two local hackers of breaking into the computers of over 50 pop stars, including Lady Gaga, Kelly...
At first glance, two recent security stories, the Stuxnet attack on Iran’s nuclear industry and the WikiLeaks breach of US State Department communications, d...
Avira TechBlog: We discovered a new ransomware threat which is downloaded by a Trojan of the Oficla family. This downloaded threat replaces the MBR (master b...
The Anonymous group takes revenge after legal decision against Pirate Bay founders
A security man stands next to an anti-aircraft gun as he scans Iran’s nuclear enrichment facility in Natanz, 300 kil...
Controversial whistleblower website WikiLeaks was hit by another massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack earlier this morning. On Sunday, the sit...
Mashable: The distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that took down WikiLeaks as the site published secret U.S. embassy cables over the weekend could be...
Mashable: Bing is getting an early start on the “best of 2010” lists, releasing its compilation of the year’s most popular search terms a little more than a ...
Sophos Labs: There are two stories that have been the focus of much speculation that have come to some closure today. New information confirming many peoples...
You might want to steer clear of the following fake security program, being promoted as a “Windows Trojan Removal Kit” but actually hijacking your PC in the ...
Over the last few days, some news organizations have been saying that Stuxnet source code is available on the black market, and that clearly therefor there i...
Thomas Wegele, Virus Researcher from Avira wrote: In this month’s ITW malware set from the Wildlist organization two new variants of W32/Ramnit appeared. W32...
The Swedish Appeals Court upheld the conviction and jail sentences of three co-founders behind the infamous The Pirate Bay service. Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij...
That’s possibly the most unlikely headline I’ve ever had to write in my computer security career, but never mind..
Miley Cyrus is eighteen years old since yesterday.
Thousands of Facebook users are warning each other about a Christmas Tree virus said to be spreading in the form of a rogue application on the social network.
Yesterday, Apple pushed out the much anticipated update to its mobile operating system – iOS 4.2.
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined two organizations for serious breaches of the Data Protection Act – the first to be issued under new ...
BBC: The once dominant MySpace has turned to the company that stole its crown, Facebook, for help to drive users to its ailing site.
Microsoft says Google is a bad habit, and it’s hard for people to break it in order to try alternatives, such as the company’s search engine, Bing. “It’s a h...
Thousands of female Facebook users had their accounts inexplicably disabled today. They did not violate Facebook’s terms of use but nevertheless, they are se...
We’ve all heard of graphics card makers optimizing their drivers for various benchmarks—some of you might recall the Quack story as one of the earlier exampl...
Righard Zwienenberg from Norman Security Center Blog posted something interesting, Thanks to Mr. Fagerlid for Sharing:
Sophos Labs: Two weeks ago, an automatic session-hijacking plugin was released for Firefox. It was named Firesheep, and it’s been downloaded over 600,000 tim...
Last quarter was the first time ever that US pay-for TV subscription rates declined, and in Q3 2010, cable lost over 518,300 subscribers in total, according ...
David McCandless recently gave a presentation about data visualization in which he unveiled this graph, which tracked 10,000 Facebook status updates to deter...
Mashable: Today marks exactly three years since Google and a slew of hardware and carrier partners officially announced the Android mobile operating system.
Mashable: It looks like cross-browser, bookmark syncing service Xmarks won’t be going out of business after all.
Tom Kelchner, Sunbelt blog: Alert reader Laurie (my boss actually) forwarded a copy an email she received from a friend. It said the sender was “…pleased to ...
Google Operation System blog:
SANS.edu: We received a couple of reports about Microsoft’s “Smart Screen” flagging harmless sites as malicious. Initially, we considered the possibility of ...
A perverted hacker who spied upon more than 200 women via their webcams and microphones, after infecting their computers with malware, was arrested earlier t...
Wall Street Journal: It looks like Steve Jobs may have something to be nervous about after all.
(CNN) — Facebook is the biggest name in social networking. But overnight, it got smaller.
Chinese website eNet has filled in some missing information – notably TDP and TMU count. The TDP of GeForce GTX 580 is at 244W, slightly lower than the GeFor...
On average, response times and availability of five major social networks (Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, Twitter, and MySpace) has improved this past quarter,...
Google search engine’s latest innovation technology that allows users to search for information in real time does not come without its own challenges. For ex...
SharesPost has valued Farmville developer Zynga Game Network at $5.51 billion, according to Business Week. That means it is now estimated to be bigger than c...
Mac: Hi PC, I’m not feeling so hot today… ** **PC: Oh, I know ALL about that. I think you have a virus!
Paul Mah, on the ITBusiness Edge blog, reported on GFI’s September survey of web filtering practices in small and medium businesses and got some interesting ...
Currently cyber criminals try to make fast money by spamming out emails in masses in Germany which allegedly stem from an Advocate specialized in copyright. ...
Last night Facebook announced that it had over 500 000 000 users.
Windows 7 might be selling like hotcakes but that’s only going to make it even harder for Microsoft to top. When asked about the riskiest product bet that th...
Windows 7 turns one year old and obviously Microsoft felt the need to once again brag with the performance of its latest operating system. And it can really ...
I was reading an article on PCWorld’s website about the upcoming Google Chrome OS:
An Arizona computer specialist has admitted taking part in a conspiracy that used large networks of compromised computers to inflate the value of stocks so t...
A German source is signaling that those who haven’t downloaded FaceTime for Mac just yet may want to hold back on the desire to video chat with their iPhone-...
A federal judge in New Jersey has cleared the way for a landmark criminal case targeting CAPTCHA circumvention to proceed to trial.
This isn’t good:
Apple is cashing in on the popularity of its iPhone and iPad to boost demand for its oldest product, the Macintosh.
Kaspersky Lab now admits that people attempting to buy Kaspersky’s security products on Oct. 17 were redirected by hackers to a scareware site with links to ...
HAVOC CAUSING hacker activist group Operation Payback has extended its reach and strangled the life out of the UK Intellectual Property Office’s website.
Two regional websites for Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU) were hacked on Tuesday by unknown perpetrators claiming to be Turkish followin...
If the internet is feeling a little more crowded these days, there’s good reason.
In late January, the Number Resource Organization (NRO) warned that IPv4 addresses were drying up, with less than 10% unallocated — a figure that has shrunk ...
Apple’s chief executive, Steve Jobs, said that Google’s mobile platform was “fragmented” and bad for developers and consumers.
The New Acrobat X is finally here!
You might be wondering why the frontpage of Twitter has a big “Edit” line running through it in the screenshot below:
Sometimes we encounter childish messages from the authors in the body of malware. A variant of the TDSS family we got recently is even going a step further b...
The information being transmitted is one of Facebook’s basic building blocks: the unique “Facebook ID” number assigned to every user on the site. Since a Fac...
NEW YORK — The Wall Street Journal is reporting that 10 popular Facebook applications have been transmitting users’ personal identifying information to dozen...
The good news is that overseas hackers apparently did not change the grades of more then 100 thousand University of North Florida students when they broke in...
Some people didn’t like his comments about downloading…
Variants of the infamous ZeuS cybercrime toolkit have begun using the tactics of the infamous Conficker worm in a bid to get ahead of security defences.
Some domain names make you cringe, some make you smile…
Hmmm. That’s not what the source code says
How does one say in French: “We’re gonna make an example out of you, boy”
Adobe just released Reader and Acrobat version 9.4. The new release fixes some critical vulnerabilities which allow attackers to infect PCs – for example, ju...
Stuxnet continues to be a hot topic. Here are answers to some of the questions we’ve received.
On Twitter a new security flaw gets currently exploited. Hackers found a way to inject malicious JavaScript code into tweets with the onMouseOver event. This...
Resident Evil. Man, those films are terrible.
A worm collectively dubbed by the security industry as the “Here you have worm” has been making its way onto corporate networks over the past 24 hours. The ...
The Phoenix New Times has reported that the CEO of LifeLock ID theft protection service of Tempe, Ariz., has had his identity used by rip-off artists 13 time...
Thirty-two days ago, I purchased Apple’s iPad, after proclaiming that I wouldn’t. A gadget like this one should be tested if repeatedly blogged about. I woul...
A variety of sources are reporting that blog hosting sites with WordPress-created sites and php-based management systems such as Zen Care eCommerce are being...
With Clearwire and Sprint pushing for mobile WiMAX coverage in 80 U.S. markets by the end of 2010, and promising three new WiMAX-powered smartphones in the n...
Information has leaked that Facebook is set to roll out location-based features for users and brands as soon as this month. According to Advertising Age, us...
Smartphones carrying Google’s Android operating system outsold the iPhone in the first quarter of 2010, according to new research out today from NPD.
The University of California, Berkeley, has found that more than half young adults have become more aware of Internet privacy issues than they were five year...
With Congress’ dance card already overflowing with major social and policy reforms, including in the financial sector, the likelihood that it could pass a m...
Late last week, the wires were buzzing over news that the official site of PHP-Nuke “Professional Content Management System“ was serving malware. I am frankl...
I had a look at my twitter page early this morning and read “Twitter is a rich source of insanity”, and thought “Wow, the twitter marketroids are really bold...
Demand for Evernote’s notetaking tool is growing at an ever increasing rate. The startup has just surpassed three million users, which means the company has...
When consumer electronics shopping site Retrevo prepared for Mother’s Day by conducting a survey of parents’ social media practices, it found that nearly ha...
The Android Team today published a snapshot of the platform which shows the versions of Android most commonly in use. Though the platform is frequently crit...
When I was a child, I was fascinated by ATM machines. I had a savings account which my mother would deposit money regularly and I waited for the day that I c...
Email hoaxes are nothing new, dating back at least as far as 1994 with what is widely believed to have been the first email hoax—referred to as the “Goodtime...
For the first time, Microsoft’s share of the browser marked has slipped below 60 percent, according to figures from Net Applications, a Aliso Viejo, Calif., ...
Many bloggers and commentators are making much of the fact that San Mateo police served a search warrant on the home of Gizmodo blogger Jason Chen and confis...
I was wrong in my earlier assessment that the three treasury websites had been cleaned… the attack site was simply tracking ip addresses, and would not serve...
Spam emails such as the one below have been doing the rounds on the Internet hoping to lure recipients into downloading a Facebook toolbar.
A group of Second Life users is suing Second Life’s creator over a virtual land dispute. They say their contractual property ownership rights have been chan...
On a day when investors began celebrating Apple’s report of having already sold its one millionth iPad, news from this morning’s New York Post — which was th...
Self-proclaimed social media scientist Dan Zarrella has already applied linguistic methodologies to psychologically profile Twitter users. Now he’s using th...
For the second time recently, a security researcher has pointed out that running machines without administrative privileges could significantly improve secur...
For a short while today a couple of treas.gov websites were hacked, and were reaching out to an attack site in Ukraine.
Short answer: an infinitesimally small amount.
Backdoor.Rohimafo is a Trojan that has several back door functions. It not only opens a back door and performs the usual functions but it also can perform so...
Niels Provos of the Google Security Team has blogged about the rise of malicious web sites carrying rogue security products, which the Google team calls “Fak...
UK security firm Context Information Security Ltd., is making available a browser-based tool that will demonstrate clickjacking techniques that were discusse...
This might not mean much if you’re not writing or editing a tech blog, but news that the AP – whose stylebook is still the standard for all things grammar a...
Business employees are visiting Facebook from the workplace more than any other internet site, including Google, Managed Security Services company Network B...
BusinessWeek and Fortune have both released their annual rankings — the 50 Most Innovative Companies and the Fortune 500, respectively — and Apple has stron...
A study of web traffic from enterprises in the first quarter of this year has shown that YouTube videos used 10 percent of bandwidth – more than any other si...
The Telegraph, one of the biggest newspapers in the UK, hasn’t had a good time of it lately where their website is concerned. There were vulnerabilities foun...
“Faceparty is a UK based social networking site allowing users to create online profiles and interact with each other using forums and messaging facilities s...
In kicking off Twitter’s Chirp developer conference, the company finally revealed its long mysterious registered user number, and it’s surprisingly large (b...
…and some of it masquerades as “marketing” and “newsletter” emails.
Aiming for one billion Twitterers by 2013?
Well, well… looks like someone has been singing along to one of Jay Chow’s songs while coding an exploit that corresponds to a vulnerability in Internet Expl...
We have received reports of a malicious Windows Mobile game that creates significant phone bills to affected users.
Northwestern Bank Online – Orange City is compromised and should not be visited until it’s clean.
There could be a denial-of-availability risk to the enterprise in the new anti-piracy law passed by the British Parliament yesterday. Employees using company...
Apparently, Facebook isn’t the only online sphere where ninjas are becoming a problem — The LinkedIn Blog reports that the job title “Ninja” has become more ...
The National Bureau of Economic Research has previously indicated that the United States has been in a recession since December 2007. What is interesting to ...
I don’t believe it!! This morning I’ve received an email sent by Google notifying me that I´ve won $950,000, so I think this will be the last post I’m going...
The Indian Premier League 2010 is a huge attraction for the cricket-crazy population in India. These matches are packed with all the ingredients to entertain...
Search terms that are censored in China:</p>
It was only a matter of time before the merest of “iPad” mentions on sites such as Twitter would result in autospammed messages like this:
Hong Kong-based security firm Network Box reported that Korea was the country of origin for 31.1 percent of the malware on the Internet in March. In February...
Farmville has been launch in June 2009 and after month it has been rated at #8 in Top 25 Facebook Games. Farmville has become the most popular games on Fa...
“Shadows in the Cloud” hang over the otherwise sunny PRC
Rob VandenBrink has written a piece on the SANS web site Diary (“The Many Paths to Security Awareness”) with an interesting take on the very large topic of c...
Though it is true that malware is getting more and more sophisticated I am sometimes surprised by the lack of skills coming from wannabe botnet operators. To...
The number for the rest of the world might be 26 percent
New Scientist is reporting that a massive database culled from the public profiles of 210 million Facebook users has been destroyed before its anticipated — ...
Scum on the run
Tom Gallagher, senior security test lead with Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing group, was extensively quoted in news stories today as he described how his g...
Don’t run your PC with admin privileges
Mozilla.org has made public a report that says its Firefox browser has 30 percent market share worldwide. Assuming it’s true, that is a six percent increase ...
It seems I prompted an exploration of infection related search terms in Google Trends over on the Forbes.com Firewall blog. “Malware” is becoming a sort of c...
Using a Firefox 3.0 add-on created by developers in Hong Kong, Betanews was able to briefly establish a connection with the Internet via a proxy based in mai...
Could the manufacturers of DVD players (no, not just Blu-ray, but the original DVDs) owe back royalties to Alcatel-Lucent for the use of patented technology ...
A few of days ago, we encountered an e-mail with a malicious RTF attachment. It was sent with a supposed lawsuit notification message.
In the Pwn2Own hacking contest at the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver, Canada, security researchers and hackers quickly hacked three of the major...
In the security industry we often focus heavily on new technologies and shiny new software, and forget that so much of what we see is dependent on the person...
There is a risk to computer security from governments. Regulatory changes, even if they are very positive measures, can impose huge demands on an enterprise ...
Älypää, a popular Finnish game and quiz site, announced a database breach late last night.
Generally speaking, most website defacements I see tend to look the same with political activist Y decrying political activist Z, or leet hax0rs posting up a...
The DarkReading site is carrying a story about brand-protection firm MarkMonitor's finding that phishing increased 62 percent in 2009 with 565,502 attacks...
Or is it at the saturation point?
Are Mac OS X rogues an emerging threat?
Be on the lookout for websites offering up “free applications” which come with a nasty sting in the tail. Here’s a typical example: Appzkeygen(dot)com
Here is yet another example of a company distributing malware to its userbase. Unfortunately it probably won’t be the last.
Hmmm. A new vector for malware: USB battery chargers. Wonderful.
We frequently read stories about spammers who can circumvent CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) authenticat...
My friends often ask me about steps they can take to keep their systems at work and home free from malware. Apart from the usual recommendation to use altern...
As we have commented before when content served up from adservers is compromised, the effects can be far reaching, potentially exposing huge numbers of victi...
The 2010 Winter Olympics were held in Vancouver, Canada, from February 12-28. With more than 82 countries participating and millions across the globe catchin...
Communications security firm FaceTime of Belmont, Calif., has released the results of a survey (of 1654 people) that strongly indicates we are all using a lo...
It’s been over a year since we first started seeing the familiar Windows XP My Computer page where it appears your drives are being scanned and it reports a ...
Symantec has been observing several spam and phishing attacks regarding the recent Valentine’s Day. One such phishing attack was on an e-card website that as...
The U.S. Census Bureau is warning of phishing and other scams that are using the 2010 Census as bait. Here is the warning from the bureau’s web site:
Right! A site registered in the state of “Taliban.”
For anyone that missed Microsoft CEO’s Q&A during the Search Marketing Expo West yesterday, a transcript is now available online. I went through and pick...
“Big Brother Brazil” is a Brazilian reality TV program adapted from the popular Big Brother television series. The show is about a group of people living tog...
According to latest State of Spam and Phishing report, scam and phishing messages accounted for 21 percent of all spam, which is the highest level recorded s...
Criminals like to attack the biggest target because BIGGER generally provides a better Return On Investment (ROI). Windows is a good example. Mac is indeed s...
Last month, Baidu, the leading search engine in China, filed suit against US-based Internet registrar Register.com, in a legal event that took place at the h...
In Additional to my last Post: http://boelectronic.blogspot.com/2010/03/free-fakeav-at-virus-total-thats-not.html
If history is any gauge, this is probably the first of several incidents like this.
Since January we publish monthly reports about the categories of the spam messages which got sent around the last month. These categories are detected by Avi...
In this post I want to highlight how SEO attacks are working:
Earlier this week Sophos informed a UK Local Police Authority (Hertfordshire) that a website they owned was infected with Troj/IFrame-DY.
Herndon, Va., forensics firm NetWitness has said that the Zeus botnet has breached the networks of nearly 2,500 organizations in nearly 200 countries, includ...
A survey of 54,000 households (129,000 people) commissioned by National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) last year found that 30 perc...
Symantec recently upgraded their scanner on VirusTotal to include their new reputation-based security engine. That has caused a spike in their detection rate...
Representatives of computer companies and governments meeting at the EastWest Institute security meeting in Brussels said that an industry culture of obscure...
Peter Coogan at Symantec put up a very interesting blog post yesterday about a crimeware kit called SpyEye v1.0.7 (on sale now on Russian sites — $500) that ...
Many users have complained about Windows 7 strange Battery notification saying “Consider replacing your Batteries” on Laptops and there was a noise about it ...
Our good friends at Broomfield, Colo., security firm eSoft have found an interesting scam to trick Internet users into installing the Hotbar adware: a fake F...
Wired magazine has run a story on a phishing scam in Europe, New Zealand and Japan that resulted in the loss of 250,000 carbon credit permits worth $4 millio...
In recent weeks, various cybercrime attacks have disrupted the computer systems that allow nations to manage their national greenhouse-gas emissions quotas a...
It has been a month since Sophos added detection for Troj/JSRedir-AK and figures generated today show that over 40% of all web-based detections have been fro...
Ben Edelman, Harvard privacy researcher and guru has revisited the features of Google Toolbar and was appalled to discover that disabling it doesn’t really d...
The Danwei web site (Chinese media, advertising, and urban life) is carrying a rippingly funny blog piece by Alice Xin Liu about a recent Chinese government ...
Virgin Media, the UK telecommunications giant that supplies TV, phone and Internet services, has begun to use deep packet inspection determine if its Interne...
The European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) has released a report that says 95 percent of all email is now spam.
Facebook recently rolled out new privacy settings that provides additional publishing controls.
Notable highlights this month include the shift of the regions of message origin, and changes in the average size of spam messages.
Researchers at McAfee labs monitor Koobface activities 24/7 via custom honeypots and while reviewing one such update we noticed a variant that had debug/log ...
With the holiday season behind us, cyber scammers and spammers will now be looking towards the upcoming events and worldwide happenings that they can leverag...
InfoSecurity, a great site for computer security news, just put up a story asking the very old question: “Why don’t AV vendors name malcode consistently.”
Following the addition of Win32/Hamweq to the MSRT last month, MMPC will continue cleaning PCs in 2010 by adding another prevalent worm, Win32/Rimecud, to th...
McColo (Nov. 08) , Torpig (May 09), MegaD (Nov. 09), Lethic (Jan 10)
Looking at a random new incoming malware sample in F-Secure sample automation systems. Notice the Mutex names it uses:
The spammers and malware authors profited of the holiday time when a lot of people are at home and sent a large amount of emails just before the official fre...
Angelina Jolie and Barack Obama are the #1 celeb subjects of choice for spammers, according to McAfee January Spam Report. The report also reveals:
The third version of Firefox has emerged as the most successful leader in the browser category of all alternatives to Internet Explorer. Since the official l...
California software company Cybersitter LLC, has sued the People’s Republic of China and seven computer manufacturers in U.S. Federal court for stealing 3,00...
There has been extensive news coverage this week of Adobe’s plans for ramped-up security in its popular Reader, Acrobat and Flash Player applications, especi...
Seal Shield, a Jacksonville, Fla., company that makes washable computer keyboards and mice, said it will introduce the world’s first washable cell phone at t...
The massive growth of gold farming – the exchange of real money for virtual goods – might result in an increase in gaming Trojans and other malware aimed at ...
Mike Cardwell, an IT consultant in Nottingham, UK, reported on his blog finding a Y2010 bug in Spam Assassin. He found an error in a rule that Spam Assassin ...
We see spam all the time. One of the most dependable things spammers do is to try and exploit various newsworthy events and holidays.
The one subset of malware which does not immediately seem motivated by financial incentives is the autorun worm. In fact the raison d’etre for this class of ...
With a dazzling laser show, the 26th Chaos Communication Congress (26c3) in Berlin, the last big security conference of 2009, has ended. If you haven’t been ...
It’s the time of year to make predictions. I only have one: in 2010, governments around the world will BEGIN to increase their efforts to do something about ...
As was announced on Dec 11th, CNNIC (China Internet Network Information Center) now requires a “formal paper based application material when making the onlin...
For the first time, the FBI has issued a public warning about the threat of rogue anti-virus software, which the agency said has resulted in more than $150 ...
PCMag: My social media accounts and email inbox are full of links to stories about the horrific incident in Boston earlier this week. I am reading about the ...
Security firm Group-IB has identified a malware program called Dump Memory Grabber that can take debit and credit card data from point-of-sale (POS) terminal...
With its rich functionality and accessibility, Evernote is a popular note-taking tool for its many users. Unfortunately, it may also provide the perfect cove...
I recently came across the file “FlashPlayer.exe” during the course of regular research.
Cross-posted from WIRED.
The Dorkbot/Rodpicom worm, which spreads via messaging applications and leads to additional malware infections, is currently doing rounds on Skype and MSN Me...
h-Online: Security firm Symantec has discovered a specialised worm called W32.Narilam that can compromise SQL databases. Symantec reports that the malware “s...
v3.co.uk: The Windows version of the Crisis Trojan is far more dangerous than first thought, being capable of infecting VMware virtual machine images, Window...
h-online: Syrian activists, journalists and opposition group members are reportedly under attack by malware claiming to be a security tool that will help pro...
Cross-posted from Surelist
h-Online: Citizenlab has released a detailed analysis of the activities of a trojan in which the experts conclude that the malware is most likely closely rel...
Mashable: Sophos’s NakedSecurity blog outlined the threat on Wednesday. The company’s SophosLabs intercepted a “spammed-out email campaign” which was designe...
This article is copied from Softpedia:
Malware has been spreading on Android mobile phones that takes control of certain email accounts to create a “botnet” to send out spam, a security researcher...
ZDNet Wrote:
Is this the perfect recipe for a cybercriminal ?:
Avira TechBlog Wrote:
This is an old story back from September, 2011, but since recently I’ve seen users complaining about this, I want to share it again [Credit to NakedSecurity,...
F-Secure wrote:
Copied from H-Online: Source
Symantec Connect: The number of different components in W32.Flamer is difficult to grasp. The threat is a well designed platform including, among other thing...
Naked Security wrote:
Microsoft Malware Protection Center wrote:
H-Online: A new type of phishing strategy, which aims to trick unsuspecting users into installing a trojan by pretending to be an account cancellation reques...
Corss-posted from ZDNet: Summary: Cyber criminals have created a fake Biophilla app for Android that is really just malware in disguise. Your first red flag ...
Cnet: Forrester’s CEO isn’t the only one spouting doom and gloom for Apple today.
The BBC is reporting that websites belonging to the Iranian oil ministry and national oil company are offline after suffering a malware infection this weekend.
SophosLabs is intercepting a spammed-out malware campaign, pretending to be an email about a revealing photo posted online of the recipient.
SophosLabs: More malware for the Mac OS X platform has been discovered, hot on the heels of the revelation that some 600,000 Macs had been infected in the Fl...
Anti-virus experts at Trend Micro have discovered ransomware which blocks systems from booting. In contrast to the localised trojans, which are widely spread...
The H-Online: As expected, Apple has released an updated version of the Java implementation for its Mac OS X operating system that includes a removal tool fo...
Android malware authors have seized an opportunity to infect unsuspecting smartphone users with the launch of the latest addition to the immensely popular “A...
The H-Online: A Russian AV company, Dr. Web, says it has conducted research to determine the spread of the Flashback trojan on systems running Mac OS X and s...
The H-Security: On Tuesday, a user who is known as “lawabidingcitizen” posted an unusual request to the Full Disclosure mailing list, a forum that is mainly ...
SophosLabs: Jenna-Louise Coleman has been unveiled as the new “Doctor Who” companion, joining the BBC TV time traveller in his TARDIS later this year.
Exploit found in Russian adware invades process, doesn’t install files
SophosLabs: Messages are spreading between Facebook users, claiming that members of the social network have lost all respect for popular songstress Rihanna a...
avast: While taxpayers are the regular target of springtime malware schemes, this year the bad guys are aiming for the accountants.
At the RSA Conference 2012, former McAfee executives George Kurtz and Dmitri Alperovitch have presented a Remote Access Tool (RAT) that infects Android smart...
Sunbelt: Be wary of emails claiming to be from AICPA – as per their alert here, these are not real and any mention of “unlawful tax return fraud” is just a b...
Symantec: The world is mourning the loss of another legendary pop singer also known as the queen of pop – Whitney Houston. Spammers are paying homage to the ...
SophosLabs: It’s Valentine’s Day tomorrow and the spammers are out in force to make the most of unwitting shoppers on the international day of love.
Sorin Mustaca wrote at Avira TechBlog:
SophosLabs: ComputerWorld today reports that the UK’s Metropolitan Police has warned Windows users of a malware attack that poses as a message from the compu...
The Hacker News: Roland Dela Paz, a threat response engineer with Trend Micro have discovered a piece of malicious software that automatically uploads its st...
SophosLabs: Beware of malware lurking on news websites claiming to containing breaking news stories.
The H-Security: Unknown attackers have tried to use an invitation to a prestigious conference to inject a Trojan into companies in the defense sector. The se...
GFI: You’re probably aware that Megaupload has wandered into what can only be described as a bit of a pickle, assuming said pickle is roughly the size of ...
Earlier today we have seen a new Facebook clickjacking scam which spreads quite fast.</p> I KNOW WHEN YOU LOOK AT MY PROFILE USING...
Microsoft Malware Protection Center: Facebook malware attacks are not new. Scams spreading via status updates have been around for a long time, but in rec...
The H-Security: In a blog posting, the MyBB development team has confirmed that the download package for version 1.6.4 of MyBB had been...
GFI Labs Blog: We've noted this before, but Microsoft needs to get a handle on ad placements on Bing. Ok, so Bing isn't the most widely used search engine...
Schneier on Security: A newly discovered piece of malware, Duqu, seems to be a precursor to the next Stuxne...
Mashable: As reports of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s death circulate on the Internet, so is a gruesome cellphone photo of wha...
SophosLabs: A fascinating new example of Mac malware has been discovered, that appears to be adopting an old Windows-style disguise to fool users into run...
The H-Security: The BitTorrent company has confirmed that its uTorrent servers were hacked on Tuesday 13 September and, for almost two ...
Microsoft Malware Protection Center: We've had reports of a new worm in the wild and that generates increased RDP traffic for our users on port 3389. Alth...
H-Online: Security specialist Sophos reports that it has discovered new spam email messages that claim to be an advisory related to an ...
This is an article posted in Google Online Security Blog, it’s about unusual traffics being sent from infected computers during search or web surfing, if you...
Sophos Labs: Repeat after me: It's “Facebook”, not “FaceBook”.</p> Learn that lesson and it can be one of the tri...
SophosLabs: Are you in the habit of having complete strangers email you naked pictures of themselves?</p> That's the only reason I can th...
SophosLabs: Criminals and scammers on Facebook aren't resting on their laurels… in fact, they are branching out and using multiple techniques all ro...
Avira TechBlog: The malware authors every now and then send us virus researchers some messages. For example in the compiled binary itself, or as debug out...
Prevx Blog: In the last couple years there have been three major players who dominated the scene in the field of the kernel mode rootkit development. They...
Avira TechBlog: SpyEye is a malware family which we are monitoring for some time. Today we are analyzing a sample which is detected as TR/Spy.SpyEye.flh by A...
Symantec: Only a few days ago, Japan experienced one of the worst earthquakes in its history. The earthquake registered 8.9 on the Richter scale and triggere...
BetaNews.com: Android handsets infected with malware are getting a cleaning job from Google. On March 2nd, Google removed 21 apps from the Android Marketplac...
Symantec Connect: WikiLeaks.org is in the news after their recent publications linked to leaked government documents. Spammers are now leveraging the current...
Sunbelt Blog:
It’s a normal day to us. We receive a new Bamital virus sample report from a customer, and we provide an analysis. Suddenly, something interesting bursts int...
Mashable: A large number of messages containing only the link “goo.gl/R7f68” has appeared on Twitter today, redirecting the users to various malware-laden si...
The latest W32.Yimfoca.B variants can target malicious links in no fewer than 44 countries and nearly 20 different languages. It has also increased the numbe...
Here’s the latest twist in the “membership” site scam: spam emails that tell potential victims to update their Adobe Reader include links to a web site inten...
Avira TechBlog: We discovered a new ransomware threat which is downloaded by a Trojan of the Oficla family. This downloaded threat replaces the MBR (master b...
A security man stands next to an anti-aircraft gun as he scans Iran’s nuclear enrichment facility in Natanz, 300 kil...
Sophos Labs: There are two stories that have been the focus of much speculation that have come to some closure today. New information confirming many peoples...
You might want to steer clear of the following fake security program, being promoted as a “Windows Trojan Removal Kit” but actually hijacking your PC in the ...
SophosLab: Once again, a rogue application is spreading virally between Facebook users pretending to offer you a way of seeing who has viewed your profile.
Thomas Wegele, Virus Researcher from Avira wrote: In this month’s ITW malware set from the Wildlist organization two new variants of W32/Ramnit appeared. W32...
There are always peculiar things malware researchers discover while analyzing new samples.
Tom Kelchner, Sunbelt blog: Alert reader Laurie (my boss actually) forwarded a copy an email she received from a friend. It said the sender was “…pleased to ...
Sophos has released a free antivirus product for consumers using Mac OS: Sophos Anti-Virus Home Edition for Mac. Although commercial antivirus products for M...
Mac: Hi PC, I’m not feeling so hot today… ** **PC: Oh, I know ALL about that. I think you have a virus!
I was reading an article on PCWorld’s website about the upcoming Google Chrome OS:
An Arizona computer specialist has admitted taking part in a conspiracy that used large networks of compromised computers to inflate the value of stocks so t...
This is a pretty neat attack from the malware pushes leveraging on the ignorance of the average user – which in all honestly is a safe bet most of the time! ...
Kaspersky Lab now admits that people attempting to buy Kaspersky’s security products on Oct. 17 were redirected by hackers to a scareware site with links to ...
You might be wondering why the frontpage of Twitter has a big “Edit” line running through it in the screenshot below:
Sometimes we encounter childish messages from the authors in the body of malware. A variant of the TDSS family we got recently is even going a step further b...
Variants of the infamous ZeuS cybercrime toolkit have begun using the tactics of the infamous Conficker worm in a bid to get ahead of security defences.
W32.Stuxnet has been a subject of much discussion amongst security researchers and media, and we posted a series of blogs on the subject. As you may already ...
Stuxnet continues to be a hot topic. Here are answers to some of the questions we’ve received.
During our analysis of the different malware families we sometimes stumble upon some messages inside the viruses placed there by their authors. For example, ...
The Stuxnet Trojan is very well covered in the media as more and more details about its sophisticated code become public. It abuses four previously unknown s...
We received new spam emails which contain a JavaScript redirector in form of a HTML attachment. The emails we received have the subject “Consultation Appoint...
One unique security feature of Android is the permission check when installing 3rd party apps. The system lists all permissions that an app requires and asks...
A worm collectively dubbed by the security industry as the “Here you have worm” has been making its way onto corporate networks over the past 24 hours. The ...
Like a lot of seedy stuff, this started with a Twitter post:.
File-sharing organization Pirate Bay has been controversial for a long time, like maybe the length of its entire existence. It’s been in the news recently...
Back in November 2007, I’ve seen this technique used by one of the variant of Worm called W32/Drom. The technique was not to execute the malicious file or co...
Sigh… The latest “exploit” that affects hundreds of programs and will be the end of the world as we currently know it is actually a well documented feature o...
“What are you doing? “To join or to see who invited you, check the attachment.”
Toy Story 3 is romping across cinemas Worldwide, and rightly so – it’s the best of the series by far. I thought it might be worth pointing out that being a p...
There is a well-respected and very useful site that everyone in the anti-virus industry uses – sometimes several times a day: Virus Total. You can upload sus...
There’s a new Facebook worm out there. However, it doesn’t seem to be doing anything else than posting a message to people’s Facebook walls.
Russian-based PROXIEZ-NET, which was known to allegedly host 13 Zbot command-and-control servers has been shut down by its upstream provider DIGERNET, accord...
You might avoid looking for photos of Miss USA Rima Fakih for a while. There is a controversy about a certain pole-dancing incident in her past that is stirr...
Late last week, the wires were buzzing over news that the official site of PHP-Nuke “Professional Content Management System“ was serving malware. I am frankl...
Spam emails such as the one below have been doing the rounds on the Internet hoping to lure recipients into downloading a Facebook toolbar.
We want to warn you of an email message in Spanish we’ve received with the subject ( Urgente ) Posible Terremoto y Tsunami con un 89 % de efectividad and tha...
Backdoor.Rohimafo is a Trojan that has several back door functions. It not only opens a back door and performs the usual functions but it also can perform so...
In an excellent blog, the people from Apache did a very good job analyzing and documenting how a security breach happened–going through all the stages of the...
On April 9th, Tavis Ormandy published a proof of concept about how to use the latest version of Java to compromise a pc. You can read about it here. He notif...
Does anyone really care about opening a zip file to examine an RTF or JPEG file? This task—combined with a dull, unexciting, unstimulating subject line—compe...
Of course I’m talking about football. When I say football I mean the game that is played with one ball thas is kicked with the foot, not the other game that ...
Every once in a while, you find some odd piece of text in a piece of malware.
Brian Krebs, in his “Krebs on Security” blog is reporting that a large number of WordPress blog pages have been hacked to redirected visitors to networkads.n...
Well, well… looks like someone has been singing along to one of Jay Chow’s songs while coding an exploit that corresponds to a vulnerability in Internet Expl...
We have received reports of a malicious Windows Mobile game that creates significant phone bills to affected users.
An interesting and unknown feature used by sysadmins around the world in some large corporate networks is the use of proxy-auto config (pac) files. This beni...
TSince 27 March a new game called 3D Antiterrorist has been cropping up on quite a few international freeware sites offering downloads for Windows Mobile ...
Hong Kong-based security firm Network Box reported that Korea was the country of origin for 31.1 percent of the malware on the Internet in March. In February...
Farmville has been launch in June 2009 and after month it has been rated at #8 in Top 25 Facebook Games. Farmville has become the most popular games on Fa...
A blog contributor who goes by the name of “jeremy” has continued to research the possibilities inherent in the recently discovered .pdf-file weakness that c...
If you like downloading or installing programs on your PC related to XBox gaming, you might want to take heed of this writeup. There’s a fake application kit...
There are a number of Toolbars out there in the wild with a nasty sting in the tail for anybody using them to login to Facebook. We’ve seen two of these so f...
Though it is true that malware is getting more and more sophisticated I am sometimes surprised by the lack of skills coming from wannabe botnet operators. To...
Our good friends at Hanoi, Viet Nam, -based security firm Bkis have written about an interesting malcode lure: Trojans masquerading as updates for popular ap...
Malware authors use numerous unconventional techniques in their attempts to create malicious code that is not detected by antivirus software. As malicious co...
There are a couple of programs in circulation at the moment designed to steal Steam account login credentials. People can have a lot of money invested in Ste...
One our researchers was reading the comments about Dancing With The Stars, and Kate Gosselin’s performance (He’s a huge fan … don’t ask), when he noticed a l...
When it is not actually a picture but an obfuscated malicious VB script!
Didier Stevens, security professional and blogger, has found a “feature” in the PDF file format that makes it possible to package an executable in a PDF file...
Today, our friends at Trend Micro blogged about a new attack vector using Microsoft Word documents. We saw this as well last week, and have written a detecti...
We’ve been seeing Fake AV programs getting more convincing for a while now. Some of the tricks employed by the guys behind these rogue programs include Windo...
Who wouldn’t want some tax benefits in the current economic times? Don’t phishers and scammers know that all too well! In a new phishing scheme, We found tha...
Not so long ago, examples of fake Firefox websites / downloads were in the news with the sites involved serving Hotbar installs.
We found this interesting and malicious little mechanism.
Yesterday there was a volcanic eruption in Iceland, near the Eyjafjallajoekull glacier, that has led the Icelandic authorities to declare a state of emergenc...
Do you know what the latest version of Adobe’s Flash Player is? If you don’t, you may very well fall for this:
Today we are going to take a closer look at bots and botnets. On the black market, selling bots and botnets is quite profitable, which makes creating them a ...
The underlying structure of a typical website is made up of different folders and sub-folders, much like the ones that are on your computer. A webmaster (is ...
With Windows 7 becoming increasingly popular, more and more software companies have begun to upgrade their interface for the latest Microsoft operating syste...
The internet is rife with free tools from anything to everything (almost) – from free HTML web editors to free applications to free games and so on.
Are Mac OS X rogues an emerging threat?
Most of us are familiar with how high profile news events are used for malware distribution. We’ve seen it many times such as with Tiger Woods’ scandal and t...
Be on the lookout for websites offering up “free applications” which come with a nasty sting in the tail. Here’s a typical example: Appzkeygen(dot)com
As we were working through URLs identified as suspicious due to our GTI technology, one of the URLs that presented itself was an average “.com” site that loa...
Swiss security blog Abuse.ch has reported that the worst Zeus botnet hosting ISP was taken off line yesterday, cutting the botnet’s number of servers from 24...
Hollywood celebrity Corey Haim has died in typical tabloid fashion: “under investigation.” And we all know that celebrity death equals Internet scams by the ...
Here is yet another example of a company distributing malware to its userbase. Unfortunately it probably won’t be the last.
Hmmm. A new vector for malware: USB battery chargers. Wonderful.
There’s an angelically tinged infection doing the rounds at the moment that has more than a whiff of sulphur about it.
Sources on a number of forums tell me that a certain application is going to be released into the wild in a few days, promoted heavily via sites such as Yout...
We frequently read stories about spammers who can circumvent CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) authenticat...
We all know Brazilian hackers have mastered the art of creating banking trojans. The Chinese are very fond of password stealers targeting online games. The b...
Recently, We received some malicious files which appeared to be signed by “Adobe Systems Incorporated”. On closer inspection, however, it was seen that the s...
Just when we thought SEO using Flash was as interesting as SEO poisoning can get, it seems it’s getting even sneakier…
As we have commented before when content served up from adservers is compromised, the effects can be far reaching, potentially exposing huge numbers of victi...
One of the issues malware writers deal with is having their programs load and execute on a victim’s computer. An unwary victim may click on an email attachme...
It’s time for your daily dose of “spot the fake program / avoid the fake program”.
It’s been over a year since we first started seeing the familiar Windows XP My Computer page where it appears your drives are being scanned and it reports a ...
Readers may well have read some of the news stories posted after yesterday’s news concerning the take down of the “Mariposa” botnet. So what is Mariposa?
Right! A site registered in the state of “Taliban.”
In the same way that media event X guarantees Rogue Antispyware Y, a new and highly anticipated videogame that’s about ready to launch will similarly bring o...
More than 60 websites have been found to be hotbeds for SEO poisoning. Each of these domains host hundreds of possible matches for search keys.
In Additional to my last Post: http://boelectronic.blogspot.com/2010/03/free-fakeav-at-virus-total-thats-not.html
VirusTotal has been well known to most readers of the blog. It’s a free virus and malware online scan service which allows submitters to test a particular fi...
We’ve been seeing a gradual shift in malicious PDF file coding (no surprise there, we know malware authors can and do adapt their techniques).
A massive earthquake struck near the Chilean city of Concepcion in the early hours of the morning of February 27th, 2010. The quake measuring 8.8 on the Rich...
People looking to take advantage of the savings from the government during these harder financial times are being hit with other financial burdens (Rogue AV ...
In this post I want to highlight how SEO attacks are working:
Earlier this week Sophos informed a UK Local Police Authority (Hertfordshire) that a website they owned was infected with Troj/IFrame-DY.
Imagine that you’re sitting at home catching up on your email backlog. In comes an email from your ISP, FooBarBazCo (some creativity required here, I know). ...
Herndon, Va., forensics firm NetWitness has said that the Zeus botnet has breached the networks of nearly 2,500 organizations in nearly 200 countries, includ...
Evgeny Legerov, founder of Intevydis in Moscow, has created an exploit that hits a previously unknown heap-corruption vulnerability in the Firefox browser. T...
“Dammed thieves. Stole our logo. I suppose we should be flattered, though.” — A.E.
I saw something quite funny when checking out the spam feeds the other day. An attachment kept appearing, once in a while, with a name of Christmas Card.zip....
In the last two days our lab has detected a flood of email messages that seem to have been sent by the Facebook team urging users to submit a new account agr...
While everyone is searching the web for the unusual gift on Valentine’s Day, Cybercriminals take this opportunity to propagate Rouge Antivirus.
In the past, viruses and computer threats were created simply for the sake of it. Sometimes these threats would wipe your hard drive clean—just to let you kn...
Clients of escorts and call girls are usually aware of the the risks presented from STIs. However, SophosLabs has been monitoring a different type of infecti...
SecurePcAv is a phony antivirus program that has been infecting PC’s across the interwebs in recent days.
The Zeus crimeware family has moved into new territory with its latest spam campaign – purporting to be a warning about targeted phishing attacks on “.gov” a...
Paladin Antivirus is a phony security program, designed to rip people off. Paladin Antivirus tricks people into thinking they are downloading a legit antivir...
It has been barely two days since Google announced their new social integration and messaging tool called Google Buzz. Today we saw the first example of malw...
Several reports have been published detailing a Blackberry proof of concept (PoC) exploit called txsBBSpy that was recently presented at a security conferenc...
Fake antivirus software (a.k.a misleading applications or rogue antivirus) is big business nowadays with Symantec reporting 43 million installation attempts ...
Advanced Defender is fake security software that tricks people into thinking it’s legitimate antispyware software in hopes they will pay for the product.
It’s just a few more days before Valentine’s Day. As most people now are already preparing their celebration, malware authors are also getting ready to use t...
The creators behind the rogue antispyware appliaction WiniGuard have released yet another clone of their software. This one is called SafePcAV.
Our good friends at Broomfield, Colo., security firm eSoft have found an interesting scam to trick Internet users into installing the Hotbar adware: a fake F...
Mozilla yesterday posted a notice on its AMO blog (that’s an acronym for their add-on site addons.mozilla.org) that two add-ons have been found infected with...
Found this little gem today. It’s distributed with other malware, cracks and drive-by downloads. It purports to be a security warning from your Windows opera...
With virus and spam outbreaks, analysts needs to keep their nerves to analyze the situation and proceed to deal with the new threat. So, I wasn’t expected to...
Since yesterday, our lab has detected a flood of email messages that seem to contain a Microsoft Update, but it’s actually malware. We’ve seen around 3,000 i...
MyPcSecure is the latest rogue anti-spyware application and a clone from the WiniGuard family.
LiveEnterpriseSuite is a clone of InternetAntivirusPRO. Actually, the only thing that the authors of this rogue have changed is the name in the GUI.
It has been a month since Sophos added detection for Troj/JSRedir-AK and figures generated today show that over 40% of all web-based detections have been fro...
APcSafe is another rogue anti-spyware clone of the WiniGuard family.
PcsSecure is the latest cloned rogue antispyware from the WiniGuard family.
Disguised IQ test combines virus, rootkit and worm — malicious code for one fatal formula
Desktop Security 2010 is a rogue antispyware program, designed to trick people into thinking it is a legitimate program. Desktop Security 2010 uses fake secu...
False images from Cosmopolitan infect computers with fake antivirus product
Symantec Security Response has repeatedly warned that looking for free movies and videos online often results in malware infection, and here we go again with...
I dislike salesmen. The look on their faces irks me when I can feel the dollars flicking in their eyes. I hate it when my car insurance company ask if i want...
APcSecure is a new rogue from the WiniGuard clone factory.
System Defender is a rogue antispyware program, or a PC infection made to look like real security software. System Defender is a scam designed to trick peopl...
ProtectSoldier is the latest rogue antispyware program released by cyber thieves to terrorize PC users.
ArmorDefender is the latest rogue antispyware program released by cyber thieves to terrorize PC users.
Antivirus360 is a phony antivirus program, designed to rip people off. Cyber thieves who created phony software like Antivirus360 use scare tactics to fright...
ProtectDefender is a new clone of the WiniGuard family.
GhostAntivirus is a new rogue anti-virus application. It is a clone of InternetAntivirusPro.
Researchers at McAfee labs monitor Koobface activities 24/7 via custom honeypots and while reviewing one such update we noticed a variant that had debug/log ...
Following the addition of Win32/Hamweq to the MSRT last month, MMPC will continue cleaning PCs in 2010 by adding another prevalent worm, Win32/Rimecud, to th...
SysDefenders is the latest addition to the clones of the WiniGuard rogue anti-spyware family.
Malware authors love to innovate when it comes to persistence and hiding their nefarious creations from detection, and although most of the schemes are not u...
Guard Pro is a rogue antispyware software, or a phony. Guard Pro uses fake system scans and warnings to frighten people into buying the software.
Google’s Android mobile operating system has been out for a while and is generating more and more interest.
The Internet Storm Center reports that malware which claims to be “new Outlook Web Access settings” is still being sent out by cyber criminals. We saw those ...
InSysSecure is a rogue security program, designed to rip people off. InSysSecure uses false security warnings, alerts and system scans to frighten people int...
Unlike the first malware authors who wrote viruses seeking fame through destruction, their motivation has changed to financial gain.
SysProtector and ApcDefender are two new rogue antispyware programs released in the past 48 hours.
No Malware is a rogue security program, or a phony. NoMalware is designed to trick people into purchasing the software, which is actually useless, a PC infec...
The massive growth of gold farming – the exchange of real money for virtual goods – might result in an increase in gaming Trojans and other malware aimed at ...
We see spam all the time. One of the most dependable things spammers do is to try and exploit various newsworthy events and holidays.
The one subset of malware which does not immediately seem motivated by financial incentives is the autorun worm. In fact the raison d’etre for this class of ...
Activities associated with Koobface have increased during the month of December. Often it is for the sending of traffic to compromised servers in order to ob...
Well, it didn’t take long for the Christmas E-Card scams to start.
Those looking to see the latest 3D blockbuster movie, The Avatar, on the cheap will have to take great care in what they search for. We have become aware of ...
Data Doctor 2010, an encryption trojan via our old “friends” iframedollars. It encrypts the files on your hard drive very rapidly if you’re unfortunate enoug...
Earlier on this morning I happened to notice a redirect page used in a meds spam campaign that just happened to also be compromised with a malicious script.
Don’t go there. There are a lot of rogue downloaders hiding in those links.
The third generation of WiniGuard gets a new clone every 48 hours
Case in point: findproper[dot]org
What’s the best way to distract an online gamer while you drop some undesirable files onto their system? We saw what’s probably a pretty effective method tod...
Following on from the latest Captcha techniques used by the W32/Koobface worm, it seems that the malware authors have turned to Santa for help to deliver it’...
The SecurityTool rogue security product, which first turned up early in October, is still active and trying to avoid countermeasures by setting up 12-24 down...
This is a new one: bribeware. They’ll pay you a dollar to install their product.
Recently I had problem with my Ubuntu, Whenever I tried to open a website my Chromium told me that a Network Change has been detected and after 1-2 reload th...
Vor kurzem hatte ich ein Problem mit meinem Ubuntu. Wann immer ich versuchte, eine Website zu öffnen, teilte mir mein Chromium mit, dass eine Netzwerkänderun...
Here’s how security vulnerabilities are supposed to be handled. One, a researcher discovers an issue. Two, the people who make the software find a solution. ...
The Intel Security Advanced Threat Research Team has discovered a critical signature forgery vulnerability in the Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) cry...
Cross-posted from H-Online:
Google has already released a MyGlass Companion app for Android via the Play Store, and although a corresponding iOS version has yet to manifest itself in t...
Google is shortening the amount of time it gives to makers of vulnerable software and web services if there is imminent danger. The Google security team say...
NYTimes posted: On Wednesday, Google introduced a new in-box design for its e-mail service, Gmail.
The Chrome developers at Google have released version 27 of their browser to the Stable release channel for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and Chrome Frame for In...
For about two and a half hours on Monday, students at Oxford University couldn’t access Google Docs after the University’s Computing Services team decided to...
After many years of dealing with site compatibility issues, Opera found the solution: it will switch from its proprietary rendering engine (Presto) to WebKit...
h-online: Google has updated the Stable, Beta and Developer Channels of the desktop version of its Chrome browser with a number of bug fixes and improvements...
This is what we read in latest post from VirusTotal in their blog:
Google Operation System Blog: Google has a new favicon that looks like the icon from Google’s mobile search apps for Android and iOS. The same icon was also ...
h-online: With the release of Chrome 21, web applications can now directly access the local system’s built-in camera and microphone. Instead of requiring a s...
Time Techland wrote:
Eric Jackson in Forbes Wrote:
TechChurch: Marissa Mayer, the technology executive who has worked at Google since the search company’s earliest days, has been appointed CEO of Yahoo.
ZDNet Wrote:
Google has published a new update to the stable 20.x branch of Chrome to close a number of security holes in the WebKit-based web browser. Version 20.0.1132....
Google has closed a total of 23 vulnerabilities with the release of Chrome 20. Of those vulnerabilities, 14 are rated critical, enabling attackers to execute...
The H-online: Google has closed several cross-site scripting (XSS) holes in its Gmail email service – which has more than 350 million active users – that cou...
H-Online: Hackers developed a script which was able to crack Google’s reCAPTCHA system with a success rate of better than 99 per cent. They presented the res...
H-Online: Google has announced an update to the stable version of Chrome, which brings the browser version to 19.0.1084.52 on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Th...
The H-Online: Google has announced that Chrome 19 is the new stable version of its open source based web browser. As usual, the browser sees a number of secu...
Google’s Knowledge Graph will display summaries of topics when your query is related to one of the 500 million items in Google’s new database of things.
The H-Online: Google has released a new update to the stable 18.x branch of its Chrome web browser to close a number of security holes found in the applicati...
Cross-Posted from Official Google Blog: Just like the Loch Ness Monster, you may have heard the rumors about Google Drive. It turns out, one of the two actua...
The H-Security: The head of Google's Webspam team, Matt Cutts, announced on Twitter that Google has sent out a message to the webmasters of 20,000 sites i...
The H-Online: Google has announced updates to the Stable and Beta channels of their Chrome browser, fixing several bugs and twelve security vulnerabilities. ...
The H-Security: Google has added new features to its OAuth 2.0 Playground, which it launched last November. Developers can now switch to using client-side fl...
Google has released version 18 of Chrome, the company’s own extended version of the open source Chromium web browser. The new Stable channel release, labeled...
The H-Online: An inconspicuous “s” added to various lines of code in its latest nightly builds means that future versions of Firefox will send all search qu...
The H-Security: Google has released version 17.0.963.83 of its Chrome web browser, a maintenance update that fixes issues with Flash games and closes several...
The H-Online: Google has announced on its Inside Search blog that it is enabling SSL encryption by default on its global search pages. The US site Google.com...
SophosLabs: Is Google really extending its online empire, and opening an online pharmacy?
The H-Security: Google has released a new stable version of its Chrome browser. The update fixes seventeen high severity vulnerabilities and updates the bund...
At the RSA Conference 2012, former McAfee executives George Kurtz and Dmitri Alperovitch have presented a Remote Access Tool (RAT) that infects Android smart...
Google is to offer up to a million dollars in rewards for Chrome exploits at the CanSecWest conference. Previously, Google has sponsored the Pwn2Own competit...
Google Operation System Blog: Back in November 2010, a comment from the Google Docs source code revealed some new features that will be available: third part...
The H-Online: Google’s solution for the problem of getting better passwords on the net – a combination of browser sign-in andOpenID – will take some time to ...
H-Online.com: Following the revelation that Google and other online marketing companies have been bypassing the mechanism for blocking third-party cookies in...
The H-Online: Google and other advertising companies have been found to be deliberately evading the privacy controls of Apple’s Safari browser. The evasion w...
Mashable: Google planned to open its first-ever public store at its European headquarters in Dublin, if you believed a rumor reported by Bloomberg. But accor...
LifeHacker: Google is releasing a major update to Chrome today that will make browsing the web seem faster and also add security protections.
Google Chrome Wrote:
The H-Online: Google plans to turn off online checks for SSL certificate validity in its Chrome browser soon, according to a blog post by Adam Langley, the d...
SophosLabs: The United States, which currently forbids government workers or soldiers to use smartphones to send classified messages, is preparing a modified...
Mashable: Google just debuted a project dedicated to attacking some of the biggest problems facing civilization, such as global warming, and proposing “radic...
H-Security: Version 17 of Chrome has been released into the WebKit-based browser's Beta channel. Its developers say that the new Chrome...
Protect the Internet Help us stop the Internet Blacklist Legislation Mozilla: On November 16th,...
gHacks.net: If you are a heavy user of Google’s Google+ social networking product you are probably keeping the site running in a tab al...
Google Chrome Blog: It’s that time of the year again for the Chrome team, when we pause on our anniversary to reflect on the amazing life and times of the...
Google: Today we received reports of attempted SSL man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks against Google users, whereby someone tried to get ...
Blogger Buzz: As you may have heard, things are starting to look a little different across many Google products—and today, Blogger is t...
</p> Mozilla Security Blog: Mozilla just released an update to Firefox for Desktop, Thunderbird and SeaMonkey. Updates are ...
Google Operating System Blog: Google found a way to solve the problem of Android patents and it's only three times more expensive than ...
BetaNews: Google thoroughly rocked the smartphone world on Monday morning by announcing it will be acquiring Android phone maker Motoro...
This is part of a regular series of Google Apps updates that Google post every couple of weeks. Look for the label “Google Apps highlights” and subs...
H-Online: Officially, Adobe's current update for Flash Player has closed only 13 holes, but unofficially it is said to have closed seve...
The Google Chrome team announced the arrival of Chrome 13.0.782.107 to the Stable Channel for Windows, Mac, Linux, and C...
This is an article posted in Google Online Security Blog, it’s about unusual traffics being sent from infected computers during search or web surfing, if you...
Google Operation System Blog wrote:</p> Chrome 12, the upcoming version of Google's browser which is likely to be released today, ...
The Google Chrome team is happy to announce the arrival of Chrome 11.0.696.57 to the Stable Channel for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome...
Avira TechBlog: Today some updates need attention – they fix critical security issues and should be installed immediately!</p> ...
BetaNews: Google found itself fending off criticisms from competitor Microsoft on Monday over whether or not its Google Apps product tr...
Google Operation System: Until recently, Google Bookmarks and Chrome Bookmarks were two separate features that didn’t speak the same language. Even if you co...
Google Operation System: Google +1 is yet another attempt to make Google more social. It’s Google’s version of the Facebook “likes”, a simple feature that’s ...
Google Talk Guru is a new Google bot that lets you ask simple questions. It’s “an experimental service that allows people to get information like sports resu...
Avira TechBlog: It looks like new Chrome releases aren’t due every six weeks as Google announced a few weeks ago, but once a week now – the company just rele...
Google Chrome Blog: Today, we’re updating the Chrome beta channel with a couple of new capabilities, especially for web developers. Fresh from the work that ...
Gmail Blog: Posted by Jason Toff, Product Marketing Manager
Google Operation System Blog: I tried to download the latest Chromium build using Internet Explorer 9 and it was one of the most painful downloading experien...
The latest Chrome Dev Channel release comes with a new Chrome logo that’s more plain and boring, but looks better as a desktop icon. Even if not many people ...
In a bid to make Google Docs more appealing to workers and consumers, Google is rolling out a new feature that lets users of its productivity service discuss...
Google Operation System: Internet Explorer 9 will be released later today and one of the many new features is the native support for videos. Unfortunately fo...
Sophos Labs Blog: If you’re interested in computer security, you’ve probably heard of PWN2OWN. It’s a competition which has become an annual fixture at the a...
Avira TechBlog: Well, actually we expect some more updates as some security vulnerabilities have been revealed at the Pwn2Own contest during the CanSecWest s...
Today I’ve read a nice article in readwriteweb.com so I wanted share it with you:
Google Operation System: While most Chrome users have been upgraded to Chrome 10, Google is fixing the bugs from Chrome 11 and working on Chrome 12. A recent...
Google Chrome Security Team wrote: We’re always working hard to enhance the Chrome browser with bug fixes, new defenses and new features. The release of Chro...
Google Chrome 10 is ready for primetime and it comes with a surprising number of new features. Here are some of them:
cross-posted on the Official Google Blog
Google is always looking for new ways to make it easier for developers to get started with our APIs. When you come across a new Google API, you often want to...
Mashable wrote: Google has broken new ground in the personal finance realm with the purchase of UK price comparison website BeatThatQuote for $61.5 million (...
BetaNews.com: Android handsets infected with malware are getting a cleaning job from Google. On March 2nd, Google removed 21 apps from the Android Marketplac...
The Chrome OS Beta channel has been updated to R10 release 0.10.156.46 including the new Chrome 10 Beta, new trackpad and several stability and functional im...
Internet giant buys into security.
Gmail Blog posted:
Imagine loading Gmail and noticing that all your messages have been deleted. This is a real problem for many Gmail users who thought that they lost all of th...
Google really isn’t happy with its TV operating system. In addition to telling companies not to mention their Google TV products at CES next month, now it lo...
Today we’ve added a new notification to our search results that helps people know when a site may have been hacked. We’ve provided notices for malware for ye...
Mashable: Get ready, folks with no sense of direction; Google Maps 5.0 app for Android is looking to make your life a lot easier with 3D graphics, more accur...
Google has just launched Message Continuity, a cloud-based enterprise solution for backing up corporate e-mail whenever Microsoft Exchange goes down.
Android activations have now surpassed 300,000 per day which equals the number of activations for Symbian worldwide, according to data provided by Google. It...
The latest release of Google Chrome includes the Chrome PDF Viewer which won’t properly display some PDF files like Dynamic Forms and PDF Portfolios. While G...
Google officially unveiled the long-anticipated Chrome Web Store at its big Chrome event today.
Google revealed during its Chrome press conference today that its web browser now has 120 million users. That’s 50 million more users than it had less than s...
BetaNews: One year ago, Google gave the world its first look at Chrome OS, a project taking a new approach to thin clients and terminal computing. The long a...
Mashable: Google just launched artillery deep into territories held by Microsoft and Apple by making one of the biggest announcements in its history: The rev...
Google has just released ‘Google Books’ app for iOS. The Google Books app offers access to over 2 million Google eBooks on iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad. Take ...
Take a look in the Email I got from Google a few minutes ago:
The New York Time: The Google e-bookstore is finally open.
Google has upgraded its Priority Inbox, a recently launched Gmail feature that automatically places important mail on top of your inbox, with a couple of imp...
Google has finally announced its new phone ‘Nexus S’ manufactured by Samsung and is the first phone powered by the latest Android 2.3 Gingerbread OS. Nexus S...
Google announced on Friday that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Widevine, a Seattle-based company that has focused on DRM and security for stream...
Screen Capture (by Google) is an effective and useful extension for Google Chrome, which allows users to quickly and easily capture quality screenshots of We...
Google just released version 8 of its web browser Chrome. It fixes 13 security vulnerabilities of which 4 got rated “high”ly critical – the people reporting ...
If you happen to find a YouTube comment that’s really interesting and you want to share it with other people, mouse over the comment, click on the “Share” bu...
Google Earth 6 doesn’t have too many new features. You can now use Street View just like in Google Maps by dragging the pegman icon. “To view street-level im...
Google Chrome has always supported multiple profiles, but you had to use a command-line flag (–user-data-dir=”c:\path\to\the\profile”) to associate a profile...
Reuters: Google Inc plans to hire more than 2,000 people around the globe, bumping up its workforce as it expands into new markets and battles for talent wit...
Native Google Docs support has finally arrived for Android and iOS (the mobile version of Google Docs has been available for over three years). Edits show up...
Microsoft says Google is a bad habit, and it’s hard for people to break it in order to try alternatives, such as the company’s search engine, Bing. “It’s a h...
Mashable: If you live for data, slave over spreadsheets and constantly find yourself sifting through endless rows and columns of facts and figures, Google’s ...
Mashable: If you didn’t think the Nexus S was real, perhaps these pictures of the purported device will convince you otherwise.
This is amazing news indeed. Its has been feature talk with many of clients and colleagues all long for many years.
Reuters: Google Inc will begin blocking Facebook and other Web services from accessing its users’ information, highlighting an intensifying rivalry between t...
For Google Chrome users, viewing PDFs in the browser has been a colossal pain for lo these many moons. That’s why we are (and you should be) thrilled to lear...
Mashable: A beta version of Google Instant is now available on many U.S. iPhone and Android mobile devices.