Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
The rate at which Internet security company Sophos detected infected Web pages nearly tripled in the first quarter of 2008, the company said.
In its Q1 08 threat report released Monday, Sophos says that it discovered a new infected Web page every 5 seconds. In 2007, the company says, it saw ...
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Sounds more of an annoyance than it does "malicious" but the folks over at Spyware Sucks has an interesting post about a bad flash banner being posted on Livejournal.com. I just thought I'd share.
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Criminals changed tactics in the last six months of 2007, dropping malicious email in favour of Web-based attacks, according to data reported to Microsoft by Windows users.
The company saw the number of Trojan downloader programs it removed from Windows machines jump by 300 percent, according to Jimmy Kuo, principal architect ...
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Foxit Reader is "a free PDF document viewer and printer, with incredible small size (only 2.1 M download size), breezing-fast launch speed and rich feature set. Foxit Reader supports Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/2003/Vista". Two security vulnerability in Foxit Reader allow a remote attacker armed with a malformed PDF file to cause the ...
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Monday, April 21st, 2008
With all the high storage devices like the iPod classic going up to 160GB and just fitting in your inside pocket, people are getting more scared of data loss. Even Dave Lewis from Liquidmatrix recently saw someone at a client site using an iPod to pull corporate data onto it ...
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