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Internet hit by wave of ransom malware.

Criminals re-used an attack from 2008 to hit the Internet with a huge wave of ransomware in recent weeks, a security company has reported.

Internet hit by wave of ransom malware

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Panda Launches Global Protection 2010 Beta
« Reply #68 on: May 19, 2009, 03:00:53 PM »
Panda Launches Global Protection 2010 Beta
19 May 2009, 12:41 pm

Panda Security has just released the beta version of Panda Global Security 2010. This next iteration of its security suite product comes with significant improvements in the memory-consumption area, as well as completely new detection technologies, such as remote cloud-based scanning.

As most full-blown security suite-type applications, Pa... (read more)

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McAfee Acquires Solidcore to Extend Its Security Offerings
« Reply #67 on: May 19, 2009, 01:00:23 PM »
McAfee Acquires Solidcore to Extend Its Security Offerings
19 May 2009, 10:44 am

Global IT security vendor McAfee has announced an agreement to acquire whitelisting leader Solidcore Systems. The company plans to integrate the Solidcore technology into its own blacklisting... (read more)

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D-Link's CAPTCHA Turns Out to Be a Security Risk
« Reply #66 on: May 18, 2009, 03:00:54 PM »
D-Link's CAPTCHA Turns Out to Be a Security Risk
18 May 2009, 2:03 pm

Almost a week ago, networking equipment vendor D-Link announced that new firmware versions for some of its most popular devices would introduce a CAPTCHA validation system. Subsequently, the people behind the SourceSec Security Research blog Softpedia News - Security

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The Website of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry XSSed
« Reply #65 on: May 18, 2009, 03:00:53 PM »
The Website of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry XSSed
18 May 2009, 12:10 pm

A grey-hat hacker going by the online handle of Vektor has disclosed several cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in several pages of the IFPI website. According to the re... (read more)

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Revamped Koobface Version in the Wild
« Reply #64 on: May 18, 2009, 12:04:26 PM »
Revamped Koobface Version in the Wild
18 May 2009, 10:24 am

Virus analysts from Panda Security warn of a new variant of the infamous Koobface worm, which was released on the popular Facebook social network. Its authors have changed the template of the spam messages, but, most importantly, have adopted the scareware model.

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Hacker Delivers Fatal Blow to Major Flight Sim Website
« Reply #63 on: May 16, 2009, 01:01:12 PM »
Hacker Delivers Fatal Blow to Major Flight Sim Website
16 May 2009, 11:37 am

The flight simulation community is in shock after one of its biggest sources of information has been hit and probably destroyed for good by unknown parties. The victim website, Avsim.com, had some 60,000 members and housed 12 years worth of resources for flight enthusiasts.

On the ill-fated hour of 10:00 p.m. EDT on May 12, the... (read more)

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Microsoft Ready to Ban memcpy() Function Call from SDL
« Reply #62 on: May 15, 2009, 05:01:56 PM »
Microsoft Ready to Ban memcpy() Function Call from SDL
15 May 2009, 1:54 pm

The memcpy() C runtime function has its days numbered at Microsoft, because of its security-related notoriety. The company plans to add it to its Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) Banned Function Calls list later this year.

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Gumblar Exploit is the Most Prevalent Web Threat
« Reply #61 on: May 15, 2009, 02:00:28 PM »
Gumblar Exploit is the Most Prevalent Web Threat
15 May 2009, 11:17 am

Malware analysts from security vendor Sophos warn that the number of pages infected with the Gumblar malcious script has recently sky-rocketed, putting the exploit at the top of the list of Web threats. The impact of the previous record setter Mal/Iframe-F now dwarfs in comparison.

According to Sophos, Troj/JSRedir-R, otherwise known... (read more)

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The New York Times Twitter Account Hijacked
« Reply #60 on: May 15, 2009, 11:00:36 AM »
The New York Times Twitter Account Hijacked
15 May 2009, 9:57 am

The Moment, a popular fashion blog belonging to the New York Times, had its Twitter account commandeered by cyber-crooks. Following the incident, more than half a million users of the micro-blogging platform received adult-oriented spam.

A message reading, "Everyone visit http://tinyurl.com/[removed] for 100% FREE webcam girls/guys doing ... (read more)

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Adobe Patches Two Reader and Acrobat Critical Vulnerabilities
« Reply #59 on: May 14, 2009, 05:01:26 PM »
Adobe Patches Two Reader and Acrobat Critical Vulnerabilities
14 May 2009, 2:37 pm

Adobe has released security updates for all versions of its Reader and Acrobat products, running on all supported operating systems, an exception being the 7.1.1 version on Mac OS X, which remains vulnerable. The patches address two serious remote code execution bugs, which have been known since the end of April.

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Real-Time E-mail Harvesting on Twitter
« Reply #58 on: May 14, 2009, 03:00:42 PM »
Real-Time E-mail Harvesting on Twitter
14 May 2009, 12:21 pm

Just one day after a method of harvesting e-mails from Twitter was exposed on WebProNews, a proof-of-concept Twitter e-mail grabber was released. The technique relies on using the service's real-time search fun... (read more)

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Adobe Vulnerable to XSS Because of Buggy Flash Files
« Reply #57 on: May 14, 2009, 12:00:57 PM »
Adobe Vulnerable to XSS Because of Buggy Flash Files
14 May 2009, 10:30 am

Vulnerable Flash files, which facilitate cross-site scripting attacks, still affect hundreds of thousands of websites today. Adobe's own Web page has been recently found vulnerable, even though this flaw was discovered and reported back in December 2007.

Dimitris Pagkalos, co-founder of the XSSed project, warns that a bug in cert... (read more)

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BitDefender Total Security 2010 Out Today
« Reply #56 on: May 13, 2009, 05:02:16 PM »
BitDefender Total Security 2010 Out Today
13 May 2009, 3:35 pm

2009 is just about to start presenting the security suites from the various vendors around the world. With just a couple of months prior to launching the final product, BitDefender will offer later today a public beta of their system protecting suite, BitDefender Total Security 2010. This is the first beta and from what we learned the second one will be... (read more)

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Ransomware Becoming the Next Step in Scareware Evolution
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Ransomware Becoming the Next Step in Scareware Evolution
13 May 2009, 2:27 pm

Security researchers from antivirus vendor McAfee are warning that an older scareware application has recently mutated into ransomware and is now asking for money to unblock access to legit applications on victim computers.

Looking to increase their illegal monetary gains, the creators of "System Security 2009," a fake antivi... (read more)

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PayPal Registration Page XSSed
« Reply #54 on: May 13, 2009, 02:00:48 PM »
PayPal Registration Page XSSed
13 May 2009, 12:11 pm

Dangerous cross-site scripting vulnerabilities have been discovered in several PayPal websites, potentially facilitating phishing and other attacks. One of the proof-of-concept attacks demonstrates how an arbitrary IFrame can be injected into the PayPal merchant account registration form, over SSL.

The vulnerabilities were reported by Methodman, a gre... (read more)

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