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Saturday, 09 June 2007 |
This week highlighted new was published on June 4 http://www.pandasoftware.com/about/subscriptions/Oxygen3/20070405.htm):
Trojans and adware were responsible for 49.8 percent of all infections
detected by Panda ActiveScan in May. Specifically, Trojans were the
culprits of 26.14 percent of attacks, while adware (a type of malware
designed to display advertisements) reached 23.7 percent.
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month also witnessed a slight rise in the number of attacks involving
bots (3.37%) and spyware (3.03%), both of which are also used for
financial gain by cyber-crooks. Similarly, backdoor Trojans accounted
for 5.36 percent of all infections.
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Saturday, 09 June 2007 |
This week's PandaLabs report looks at the
BankFake.F Trojan, the two first variants of the MSNHideOptions worm and
also the Grogotix.A worm.
BankFake.F is a dangerous banker Trojan that affects nine financial
entities. This malware, which can be distributed via email or infected
Internet downloads, reaches computers with an icon of two small winged
tortoises.
When its run, this Trojan accesses a web page and displays a photo.
Meanwhile, it connects to two other addresses to download several
compressed files, all packed with UPX.
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Thursday, 07 June 2007 |
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Panda Antivirus 2008 protects you permanently and automatically against all types of viruses and spyware with the least system resources usage (Memory, CPU). It is simple to use and updates automatically via the Internet, so that you don't need to worry about it.
Panda Antivirus 2008 beta main features
Addition of http resident that allows the scan of web sites before they are loaded in your computer.
Possibility to scan Windows Mail post as an additional element on the on-demand scan.
Improvement on the detected malware reports. Phishing detections, which were until now only notified to the user with a pop-up window, have been added to the report.
The option to update the product has been included on the bear icon contextual menu.
Detection of invalid characters in the username/password section to prevent errors when introducing the user credentials.
Optimization of the taskbar bear icon animations.
Addition of a new detection counter in the Known threats section to improve the information offer to the user.
How the beta program operates
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Wednesday, 06 June 2007 |
Current-day cyber-criminals work for financial gain, and in order to do so it is fundamental for them to go unnoticed on target computers.
That's the reason behind the increase in the malicious use of rootkits: programs that can be used by hackers to hide viruses, Trojans and other code and make them invisible to users and security software.
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Monday, 04 June 2007 |
F-Secure has patched several vulnerabilities in its security products, the most critical of which could be used to run unauthorized software on a victim's computer.
The most critical of these bugs affects F-Secure's anti-virus products. A flaw in the way the software unpacks files that have been compressed using the LHA archiving format could allow an attacker to crash the system, or even run unauthorized software on the computer, F-Secure said in an advisory, published Wednesday.
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Monday, 04 June 2007 |
According to Reg contacts, Tiscali is known in the anti-spam community as slow to act against abuse of its network. In a statement, it said: "We...have been targeted by spammers using our service to send out spam, this in turn has meant other ISPs have taken measures to block mail being sent by Tiscali."
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Monday, 04 June 2007 |
Kaspersky Lab's Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6.0 is a robust desktop security solution that's backed by a lightning-fast security response team and a seemingly endless supply of signature updates.
However, while the product's management platform performs its core duties satisfactorily, we'd like to see Kaspersky widen the scope of the software's reporting capabilities—either through internal development or third-party partnerships.
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Monday, 04 June 2007 |
Most vulnerabilities in applications never see the light of day, according to security expert.
While the number of reported security vulnerabilities was around 7,200 last year, the actual figure could be as high as 140,000, according to an expert.
Gunter Ollmann, director of security strategy at IBM's security subsidiary ISS, said that while 7,247 flaws were publicly disclosed in 2006 and over 2,500 were discovered so far this year, many more will escape the attention of most of us.
Ollmann reckoned that 125,000 flaws per year never saw the light of day as they were found by penetration testers working under contract to organisations. These organisations then claimed ownership of vulnerabilities while working to fix the bugs.
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Sunday, 03 June 2007 |
Spammers, phishers and other Internet bottom-feeders, be warned.
A key Internet standards body gave preliminary approval on Tuesday to a powerful technology designed to detect and block fake e-mail messages. Promising antispam technique gets ...
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Sunday, 03 June 2007 |
Opera has fixed a flawed involving how its browser handles Torrent files that allowed hackers to attack vulnerable systems.
A boundary error in handling certain types of Torrent files exposed version 9.x of the browser to a stack-based buffer overflow...
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