Thursday, October 23rd, 2014
Dell SecureWorks has updated its figures on the number of PCs infected by the awful CryptoWall ransom malware and the news isn’t good – the number of systems has spiked suddenly to 830,000.
The firm’s last statistic in late August was 625,000, itself a large number of infected systems, which means ...
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Wednesday, October 22nd, 2014
Microsoft has disclosed that a new zero-day vulnerability is present in Windows, and is exploited via Microsoft Office files. According to Microsoft Security Advistory 3010060, the vulnerability is present in all supported versions of Windows except Windows Server 2003.
The vulnerability (designated as CVE-2014-6352) is triggered by an attacker sending a specially ...
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Sunday, October 12th, 2014
“What,” asked the speaker. “if Notepad behaved just like you would expect it to, but only for the first hour or so that you used it? What if it began to do different things after that?”
According to Giovanni Vigna, a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the ...
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Sunday, October 12th, 2014
The wicar.org website was designed to test the correct operation your anti-virus / anti-malware software. The following table contains static HTML pages with known malicious content, based on the Metasploit Framework. The exploits contain a non-malicious payload which under Windows will execute 'calc.exe', the in-built calculator (if your browser is ...
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Friday, October 10th, 2014
Sears Holding Co. late Friday said it recently discovered that point-of-sale registers at its Kmart stores were compromised by malicious software that stole customer credit and debit card information. The company says it has removed the malware from store registers and contained the breach, but that the investigation is ongoing.
“Yesterday ...
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