Sunday, April 27th, 2014
Microsoft is aware of limited, targeted attacks that attempt to exploit a vulnerability in Internet Explorer 6, Internet Explorer 7, Internet Explorer 8, Internet Explorer 9, Internet Explorer 10, and Internet Explorer 11.
The vulnerability is a remote code execution vulnerability. The vulnerability exists in the way that Internet Explorer accesses ...
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Friday, April 4th, 2014
A recently discovered variant of the Zeus banking Trojan was found to use a legitimate digital signature to avoid detection from Web browsers and anti-virus systems.
Security vendor Comodo reported Thursday finding the variant 200 times while monitoring and analyzing data from users of its Internet security system. The variant includes ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2014
Malware targeting Word and Excel files has been around for some time, but we recently encountered a new malware family, CRIGENT (also known as “Power Worm”) which brings several new techniques to the table. (We detect these files as W97M_CRIGENT.JER and X97M_CRIGENT.A.)
Most significantly, instead of creating or including executable code, CRIGENT uses the ...
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2014
There is a growing chorus of voices calling for businesses and home users to upgrade existing Windows XP installations to newer versions of Windows, if not for the features, then at least for the improved security and support. ATMs are basically computers that control access to cash, and as it ...
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2014
It’s been well publicized that on April 8th, 2014 Microsoft discontinues product support for Windows XP. Released in 2001, the support policy for the life of Windows XP soon followed in October 2002. In September 2007, we announced that support for Windows XP would be extended an additional two years ...
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