Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
More than a thousand hacked Web sites are serving up fake Flash Player software to users duped into clicking on links in mail that's part of a massive spam attack masquerading as CNN.com news notifications, security researchers said today.The bogus messages, which claim to be from the CNN.com news Web ...
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Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
Amidst confirmed reports that malicious hackers are starting to use fake Flash Player downloads as social engineering lures for malware, Adobe has issued a call-to-arms for users to validate installers before downloading software updates.The company’s notice comes on the heels of malware attacks on Facebook, MySpace and Twitter that attempt ...
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Monday, August 4th, 2008
Most of the major security suite vendors release their new editions in the fall, but some run ahead or behind the rest of the pack. With the release of Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 the fall flood of security suites has officially begun. I'm working on two other suites right now, ...
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
Developing technologies that work reliably on their own and as part of the computing ecosystem is core to our mission and is an important part of our commitment to Trustworthy Computing. Our customers and partners expect technologies and services they can depend on anytime, anywhere, and on any device. ...
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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
One day after a security company accidentally posted details of a serious flaw in the Internet's Domain Name System (DNS), hackers are saying that software that exploits this flaw is sure to pop up soon.Several hackers are almost certainly already developing attack code for the bug, and it will most ...
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