Archive for the 'General' Category

People tend to rely on wireless networks a lot these days, but there are things concerning the security measures employed in this method of connectivity that people don't know about, thus putting themselves in danger of being spied on.
It should first be noted, that wireless networks are less safe due to their nature: to spy […]

F-secure counted 250,000 new malware samples over the year 2007, which is the same amount that was counted over the last 20 years (including 2006). These statistics are very different from vendor to vendor, since most of them are based on the particular vendor's clients' experiences.
Having said that, many other security vendors have reported a […]

According to security experts, replying to phishing mail can be dangerous. There have been reports about spam mail, supposedly sent by old high school/college friends and whatnot, wondering what the recipient might be doing with his life, since it has been such a long time and…They miss you. Well, asking to refresh your recollection might […]

Sony PlayStation 3 can not only be used for games: recently it was found that hackers could use it to crack passwords. According to Nick Breese, a security researcher from New Zealand, Sony PlayStation cracks passwords 100 times faster than Intel hardware can.
"Eight-character 'strong'
passwords can be broken in a couple of days whereas before it […]

After patching QuickTime to version 7.3 and thus disposing of a widely-exploited bug, Apple is facing yet another vulnerability. This particular one affects Windows XP and Vista users, although it's not certain yet, whether Mac OS X is susceptible.
Attack code exploiting this vulnerability has been posted on milw0rm.com, it has to do with malware being […]

The new Windows instant messenger program has been released to private beta-testers last week. The new version will have a new security feature - Anti-SPIM (spam over instant messages).
There has been feedback that the new feature will be annoying at best, but possibly even dangerous. The point is that hackers may and do acquire users' […]

A flaw that had been patched for Mac OS X 10.4 has resurfaced again in Apple's new operating system Leopard. The vulnerability lies in Apple mail and could allow malicious software to be disguised as benign attachments.
"Files on a Mac can contain additional information, such how another program should be used to open them. The […]

Light up some candles, since you've just missed Storm's birthday. To those of you who don't know what Storm is, well, it is the virus with the biggest botnet (essentially, a group of zombie computers controlled remotely) since a lot earlier in the decade. It is assumed that Storm's botnet has at least 1,000,000 PCs.
Storm […]

Not unlike retailers, cyber-criminals are getting ready for Black Friday, which marks the beggining of the holiday season in the United States. Gullible consumers are at great risk of getting cheated.
"The holiday season in general is a huge time for hackers … Black Friday is typically the start," said Paul Henry, vice president of strategic […]

On November 14 Apple released an update for its Mac OS X, patching 41 vulnerabilities at once. 15 of these vulnerabilities were critical since they were flagged as capable of "arbitrary code execution," or, in other words, these flaws could be exploited to compromise a Mac. The remainder fixes took care of bugs that could […]