Hackers are increasingly turning their attention to home users and financial services firms with sneaky cyber attacks designed to cash in on unsuspecting victims, according to a report from Symantec. The security software maker on Monday released its latest Internet Security Threat Report covering n...
Microsoft on Tuesday confirmed reports of a vulnerability in the Windows implementation of Vector Markup Language. It's the latest in a string of zero-day exploits, which are security flaws that software vendors either do not yet know about or are aware of and are working frantically to fix. The SAN...
Microsoft's Patch Tuesday activity carried on from last week into this week as the software giant promised to issue a fix for its latest Internet Explorer security patch, which apparently carries a security bug of its own. The vulnerability could allow attackers to take complete control over a Windo...
Security analysts warned Windows users about it -- and now it's happening. Hackers launched an attack against Windows PCs over the weekend. The attack came disguised as one-at-a-time bot pinpricks, instead of the massive worm some had feared. Also known as zombies, a bot is a type of malware that al...
Microsoft this week announced 23 security vulnerabilities related to various Microsoft products in its monthly Patch Tuesday release. It's the vulnerability in Windows Server Service, however, that has security analysts talking. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security warned Wednesday that the Mic...
While some applauded Microsoft for displaying its new Vista operating system among some of the world's top software security researchers at the Black Hat hacker conference in Las Vegas last week, others set out to give the software giant a black eye. Polish researcher Joanna Rutkowska of Singapore-b...
Microsoft on Tuesday released seven patches, five classified as critical, for July's Patch Tuesday event. The seven patches fix at least 10 vulnerabilities in consumer and enterprise software. Security bulletin MS06-035 addresses a critical vulnerability in Windows Server 2003, as well as Windows XP...
Microsoft made the most of this month's regular Patch Tuesday, putting out a dozen patches highlighted by a fix for the serious, zero-day Word vulnerability that has been the basis for targeted attacks since it was uncovered last month. Microsoft also patched seven other "critical" vulnerabilities, ...
Yahoo's Web-based e-mail service is the latest target of a malicious attack. A new worm, dubbed Yamanner, has set out to collect addresses from a spam database, Symantec warned Monday. Yamanner exploits a vulnerability in Yahoo's Web-based e-mail program. It spreads itself to the user's Yahoo e-mail...
Sophos has cracked the code to unlock files held hostage by Archiveus ransomware. The security software firm warned users on Thursday about the Trojan horse, which encrypts victims' computer data, and then attempts to force users into making a purchase from an online pharmacy. Archiveus is not the f...
A new spyware program called DigiKeyGen is luring the unwary with a claim to provide free access to online pornographic content. It's hardly a new tactic, but Panda Software Labs has discovered yet another instance of this time-tested social engineering ploy. DigiKeyGen is found on a Web page that a...
In a hack attack that reflects a worrisome trend in the education arena, Fairfield, Conn.-based Sacred Heart University in early May discovered that the security system on one of its computers containing students' personal data was breached. The university has not confirmed that sensitive files were...
Symantec on Friday began warning customers of a zero day vulnerability in Microsoft Word that is being exploited by hackers. The attack, which was reportedly discovered by VeriSign's iDefense, is successful against Microsoft Word 2003, according to Symantec. iDefense reports its testing shows the at...
During the last 12 months, nearly 20 percent of organizations have had employees launch a hacking tool or a keylogger within their network, according to new research released by Websense this week. That figure increased from 2005, when only 12 percent were impacted. A keylogger is one of the most da...
The number of malicious programs is on the rise, according to McAfee's Avert Labs, with exponential increases in rootkits and Windows-based stealth components. In the first quarter of 2006, the number of rootkits increased by 700 percent over the year-ago period, according to McAfee. Meanwhile, the ...
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