At 6AM today, McAfee released an update to its antivirus definitions for corporate customers that had a slight problem. And by “slight problem,” I mean the kind that renders a PC useless until tech support shows up to repair the damage manually. Here’s how the SANS Internet Storm Center describes the screw-up:McAfee’s “DAT” file version [...]
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For all of you World Cup Soccer fans: Researchers from Symantec are reporting on an ongoing targeted malware campaign using a FIFA World Cup 2010 theme, in an attempt to trick end users into executing a malicious PDF file, exploiting a recently patched flaw in Adobe Reader.More details on the campaign:The attackers have downloaded Greenlife’s [...]
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These are some scary technical times we live in. Yes, it’s very nice that everything is available with a click of the mouse button, but do you really know where that click is taking you? Scammers are taking advantage of every hot news story out. Do a search for an issue and the results may [...]
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Twice this week I’ve had people ask me that if they connect to a neighbor’s unsecured wi-fi if it is possible that their neighbor could gain access to their files or information. I told them that since they were actually joining that neighbor’s network, than under certain circumstances, yes their information could be accessed. I [...]
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Microsoft is warning users that a Trojan is masquerading as the company’s popular free Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) package. The alert came from Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) Malware Protection Center (MMPC) on Wednesday. “One of the oldest tricks used by rogue antivirus products is to use a similar name as, or have a similar look and [...]
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Big Brother is coming in more ways than one. Technology is often a two-edged sword. In this case, this school district apparently decided that since they owned the laptops they could control it at all times. If your laptop computer’s webcam could talk about what it sees, what would it say? Students of a Pennsylvania [...]
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If Your Password Is 123456, Just Make It HackMe By ASHLEE VANCE Published: January 20, 2010 Back at the dawn of the Web, the most popular account password was “12345.” The New York Times Today, it’s one digit longer but hardly safer: “123456.” Despite all the reports of Internet security breaches over the years, including [...]
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Microsoft has had it with old versions of Adobe Flash and has issued Security Advisory 979267 to urge users to either uninstall old versions, or upgrade to the latest. More specifically, the software giant is asking users ditch Flash Player 6.0 as the multimedia player plugin contains multiple bugs. Microsoft rarely issues security advisories on [...]
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Acer Recalls Notebook Computers Due to Burn Hazard WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following products. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. Name of Product: Certain Acer Aspire-series Notebook Computers Units: About 22,000 Manufacturer: [...]
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Adobe confirms PDF zero-day attacks. Disable JavaScript now | Zero Day | ZDNet.com. [UPDATE: Adobe plans to patch this issue on January 12, 2010 ] Malicious hackers are exploiting a zero-day (unpatched) vulnerability in Adobe’s ever-present PDF Reader/Acrobat software to hijack data from compromised computers. According to an advisory from Adobe, the critical vulnerability exists in Adobe [...]
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