Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
Mozilla has released yet another beta version of the next generation Firefox web browser. Firefox 3 beta 5 doesn't have a ton of new features, but it fixes a lot of bugs and packs a bunch of under the hood tweaks that make the browser easier to use and more ...
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
Injected iframes into legitimate sites are becoming more and more common these days. One of the latest targets is a Chinese government site at www.zhangzhu.gov.cn:
Please note that while the site adminstrators have been notified, the injected iframe is still present in the site at the time of this posting.
The iframe ...
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
Around a tenth of all malware is designed to use portable storage media, such as removable USB drives, as an attack and spread vector.
Security firm ESET said that 10.3 per cent of malware detections last month were identified as files containing information on programs to be run automatically when removable ...
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
The amount of new malware has never been higher. Our labs are receiving an average of 25,000 malware samples every day, seven days a week. If this trend continues, the total number of viruses and Trojans will pass the one million mark by the end of 2008.
While there are more ...
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
We've seen tons of banking trojans lately, but now we've run into something quite unique.
This new banking trojan was found today from a drive-by-download site. We've added detection for it as Win32.Pril.A
It not only infects the MBR of the machine, but also reflashes the boot code in the Flash BIOS, ...
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