US Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III revealed that, a flash drive injected malicious code into a network operated by the military’s Central Command in 2008, as reported by eweek.com on 25th August, 2010. According to the reports, the malware itself installed onto the U.S. Central Command network and circulated on classified and unclassified systems [...]
IBM, which published its most recent X-Force trend and risk assessment report on August 25, 2010, revealed that there was a rise in the total number of loopholes found inside computer applications, which hackers were capable of exploiting, during H1-2010. The report noted that the major security risk was still from software vulnerabilities, at 55% [...]
A sociological study was conducted by a security company G Data Software on women aged 30 years on the security provisions they take for their systems. It was found that most of the women do not pay much attention to secure their computers with anti-virus. The study has revealed that only 23% of the respondents [...]
Pushdo/Cutwail, a notorious botnet famous for actively circulating malware, phishing campaigns and spam, is still a threat, even after security researchers’ teams and ISPs tried to cripple the botnet by dismantling its command-and-control infrastructure, as reported by SearchSecurity on August 31, 2010. As per M86 Security, the botnet may reconstitute itself within few weeks. Security [...]
Cyber criminals used Twitter on August 30, 2010 to distribute malware through links directing towards what they claimed was an update to the famous micro-blogging client TweetDeck. The tweets initiated with phrases, like "Download TweetDeck update ASAP!" or "Hurry up for tweetdeck update!" and comprised a URL starting with http://alturl.com/. Some of the malicious tweets [...]
A leading security firm, McAfee Labs, has discovered a new wave of spam. The spam is not only a sophisticated forgery of a Newegg purchase receipt, but there is a sign of botnet attempting to abuse Newegg’s password reset system to advance the scam. According to the reports, in lesser than 1% of cases, the [...]
According to Rocky Heckman, senior security architect at Microsoft, when hackers write viruses that result in the collapse of their computers, the malware they develop is commonly transmitted straight to Microsoft. ZDNet published this on August 27, 2010. Heckman stated that when the collapse occurred in the hacker’s Windows computer, similar to standard Windows crashes, [...]
Security researchers have revealed that a new version of the malware, which infected Windows PCs in February 2009, bypass safeguards designed and developed to restrict rootkits from hijacking machines running 64-bit editions of Windows, as reported by Computerworld on August 27, 2010,. Prevx and Symantec, the two security firms, have discovered that hackers are actively [...]
William J. Kilfoil (Chief of Police, Port Washington) has alerted the residents against an ongoing e-mail scam. This fake e-mail is sent by an anonymous person stating that he came to London for a short trip but unluckily he was robbed at the hotel, where he stayed. All his assets including cell phone, cash and [...]
An extremely harmful new family of PC worms has been detected. This family hits famous instant messaging clients to take control of a system without user’s consent. Kaspersky Lab states that the infections, known as IM-worm, occur in multiple languages and can infect users through many IM clients simultaneously, including Skype, Paltalk Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, [...]