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When Comcast customers tried to access the Comcast.net site in May 2008, they were redirected to an unknown web page which displayed a message identifying the hackers as the Kryogeniks gang. At that time about five million people connected to the site each day, according to the United States Department of Justice.
A comprehensive Verizon report released by ICSA Labs in the beginning of this week, summarizes 20 years of testing anti-virus and firewall products and their ability to detect and remove malware. The report concludes that more than 80 per cent of security products fail to perform certification as intended on the initial attempt under a widely-used industry kite-mark scheme. Only 4 percent of products tested at ICSA attain certification in the first testing cycle. Not to mention, the certification could be lost if periodic re-testing reveals the products are not able to keep up.
The Windows 7 SMB flaw was misreported as a ‘zero day exploit’ and later acknowledged as a security advisory. After users notified of this particular threat, Microsoft delivered a Security Advisory, which offers the necessary details about the scope and nature of a possible assault, and actions that can immediately be taken by users to assure the protection of their affected systems.
It would almost be impossible to perceive a major cyber attack becoming a reality but in fact, it could happen according to security vendor McAfee.
It was notified on the Internet that Google’s much-anticipated operating system, Chrome OS, is going to come for download even this week! Is it rumors or is it truth? We’ll see.
What we could do is only to wait. When Google reported its early version of new OS last fall, the company said they would open source the code for Chrome OS ‘later this year’. Google also told that netbooks running Chrome OS wouldn’t be accessible for end users until the second half of 2010.
The first security update, released on Monday, refers to Mac OS X Leopard and Snow Leopard. The second update, issued on Wednesday, goes to a new version of Safari Web browser, available for Mac, PC, and iPhone operating systems. The newest update deals with a lot of security threats, such as remote code execution, system crashing and information disclosure bugs, Apple explained in its advisory. Both the Mac OS X and Windows versions of Safari need to be updated to version 4.0.4.
A new version of the notorious Koobface (W32/Koobface) worm does this automatically.
Koobface is a computer worm that is programmed to propagate through social network sites like Facebook, Twitter and MySpace.
It was revealed that a trick worm is spreading over jailbroken’ iPhones in Australia. Additionally, at the end of last month, a proof-of-concept (PoC) application was issued that allows a hacker to distantly activate a BlackBerry microphone and listen in on surrounding conversations and sounds. There haven’t been such widespread and active attacks on mobile devices for a long while, but now, it is expected that they are going to grow rapidly.
If a password is easy to remember for the owner, sadly it would be easy to guess for an attacker as well.
If a password is more complex, that is when it includes a mix of uppercase and lowercase letters and digits, it would undoubtedly be harder for a hacker to crack it. Password requirements for users differ in various sites but in most cases ’secret/prompt questions’ are involved. Have you ever thought about strength of such type of passwords?
On Tuesday, software giant Microsoft released six security bulletins repairing upwards of 15 vulnerabilities within Windows and MS Office. The bulletins include a critical patch for holes in the Windows, Windows Server and Microsoft Office components that could enable a hacker to take control of a vulnerable computer. Three of the bulletins are rated ‘critical’ and another three are rated ‘important’.
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