With the latest release of The Safari Web Browser version 3.1 many bugs have been fixed making it a safer web browser with less vulnerabilities. Apple recently released a major security update to the MAC OS operating system which included the Update to Safari 3.1.

Included with the Safari 3.1 package is a better execution of functions to keep Safari safe for internet surfers. An issue that a previous windows version of Safari had was the validation of certificates for websites. This gave hackers the ability to direct users to a legitimate site with a valid SSL certificate and then later redirect the user to a phishing website. Because Safari did not have a phishing filter this would happen without any road blocks causing potential identity theft.

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A major security breach at the Hannaford East Coast supermarket chain in the New England area exposed over 4 million card numbers that led to 1,800 cases of fraud. This shocking news was announced Monday by the Hannaford Bros. grocery chain which abundant on the east coast of the United States.

Credit card numbers were stolen during the network breach which resulted in several fraud cases where the card numbers were used or had attempted use. The breach affected all 165 Hannaford stores in the northeast US, 106 Sweetbay stores in Florida and a small number of independent stores that sell Hannaford products.

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404 toolkit tactics are used to infect users with multiple parasites from malicious websites

The hackers that created the Vundo infection are using a 404 toolkit method to load malware onto computers on the internet. The infection of a Trojan was recently discovered through a spam email message resulting in the installation of other malware as reported by Trend Micro. The spam message includes an image once the image is clicked on it will redirect you to a malicious website that loads an executable file onto your system. The file was identified to root from the address hxxp://BLOCKED-carvalhal.pt/tits.exe which was detected as TROJ_SHEUR.HD. The link source for this file was recently shut down.

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Information about Pentagon breach that happened last summer due to a Windows vulnerability was recently discussed in some technological reports online. Back during the summer of 2007 the Pentagon had a hack that led to theft of sensitive information from the defense epicenter. With this type of attack from something as simple as an exploited windows vulnerability supports the fact that anyone is vulnerable and action must be taken regularly to prevent these instances.

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Yesterday’s report of YouTube’s outage uncovers a serious internet flaw.

The disruption of YouTube services Sunday brings serious questions to the table as to how vulnerable internet services are. According to network experts, the flaw uncovered due to YouTube’s outage may lead to a serious security problem.

In techie terms, the issue is underlying in the way Internet Service Providers (ISPs) share routing information called Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). This is a standard protocol used by routers so that computers on the internet can be found. The ISPs share this information with one another and when one ISP has the bad batch of information it is shared with the rest of the internet.

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25 year-old Yuki Shiina gets arrested in Tokyo for sending out over 2 billion spam messages promoting dating and gambling websites. Recently an Internet Service Provider (ISP) discovered the activities of this spammer dating back from May 2006. The large number of emails sent over a period of time sparked an interest in this person.

Recently the security vendor Sophos said that Shiina obtained a list of 600,000 email addresses for 100,000 yen ($927) turning that into earnings of 2 million yen ($18,540) in advertising from his email spamming. The law that prohibits sending spam emails with fake sender information was ultimately broke by Shiina and ended his luck behind bars.

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Mac users are no longer safe from malware.

Recently a survey from Sophos, a corporate security vendor, stated in a poll of 350 Mac computer users that 93 percent of them believe malware would target the Mac computer in the future. In the midst of Mac users being scared it is a good gauge as to what is to come, more attacks on the Mac.

With the growing number of Mac users and Apple on a major up rise with new iPods, iPhones, and a fast growing number of new Mac computer users, hackers are discovering new vulnerabilities on the Mac computer. What better way for hackers to infect more computer users with malware, start threatening the Mac systems.

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Recently it was discovered that a link to a Hillary Clinton video leads to the Trojan.Srizbi infection. With all of the hype and publicity of the upcoming election, hackers have joined the political world by masking Trojans and malicious files as a video link. The discovered link to download Trojan.Srizbi is usually sent as a spam message to multiple computer users. The subject of the spam message reads “Hillary Clinton Full Video !!!” The link provided in the spam message actually redirects users to download a file named “mpg.exe” which contains the Trojan.Srizbi infection.

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Skype has warned its users to be wary of opening virus-infected link after thousands of Skype users were affected worldwide this week.

The virus is called W32/Ramex.A and it uses Skype’s public Application Program Interface (API) to access the PC.

W32/Ramex.A spreads via chat messages that may be received either from the user’s contact list or from the unknown Skype users. The message includes an Internet link which leads to a virus file. When a Skype user opens the link, the Windows Run/Save box will show up and will ask for permission to save or run a .scr file. This file is a nasty virus file and should not be installed in any way. Once it is executed, W32/Ramex.A will overrun Explorer setting as well as many other system files.

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Your computer might be infected without your knowledge when you are surfing such popular video-hosting websites like YouTube. Usually no one expects to find malicious software hidden in YouTube files, and, therefore, malware creators realized that this is a very easy and attractive way to distribute their malicious codes.

Malware that was recently found in YouTube is an adware Trojan, known as Zlob.

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