Archive for the 'Vulnerabilities' Category

PDF (Portable Document Format) is widespread and loved for its versatility. But popularity often brings burden of being attacked by malware creators. PDF is not an exception; there were several important vulnerabilities found in the past. 2008 autumn showed that Portable Document Format can still be exploited for various purposes and you don’t even have […]

Almost every computer user knows how difficult it is to remove malware, but do you know how difficult it is to make a malicious website to infect computers? According to experts at Panda Security, it’s not difficult at all. They discovered a tool dedicated to creating fraudulent business. It might look scary at the first […]

Google Chrome attracts users from around the world like a new shiny toy, but security experts recommend waiting till security issues are fixed. Vulnerabilities of popular software are reported every day. Things are like that because the more widespread application is; the more computers are infected when security holes are found. Chrome web browser being […]

Every version of Windows operating system is under attack of scammers, malware creators and similar members of the gang because Windows is the most popular OS choice for a computer. This means that if vulnerability of Windows is found and exploited there are more people affected and more money gained than in case Leopard vulnerability […]

New vulnerabilities are discovered every day; they are nothing to buzz about. However, when malware creators start using smarter ways to exploit the flaws, vulnerabilities emerge as top threat.
The latest Internet Security Systems X-Force report revealed that the bad guys came up with automatic ways to attack new vulnerabilities. Usually researchers working on finding security […]

Bank is considered to be safe place; online banking sites are considered to have a strong security as well. But are things always the same as we think they are?
A study in University of Michigan revealed shocking facts: there was at least single design vulnerability in more than 75 percent of online banking websites. And […]

Large scale survey finds 40 percent of internet users surfing with unsafe web browsers. Researchers from IBM, Google and the Communication Systems Groups combined efforts to find out if computers owners care about safety of their web browsers and the results were not as good as expected.
The study was based on Google logs that recorded […]

Computer security researchers came up with an idea why internet isn’t a safe place. The conclusion is amazingly simple but it doesn’t bring any good news for now: millions of websites can be infected with the same single trick, but fixing each vulnerable website requires unique and complex solution. That’s why patching a single web […]

Mac/Apple lovers used to be proud of more stable and more reliable systems, but the time has passed. Apple products are not an alternative chosen only by eccentrics; they made it to the mainstream. That’s the time when hackers, scammers and all the others turn their heads into unexplored fields of Macs. Unfortunately, the legend […]

Can all software exploits ever be patched? The answer is probably negative. Software creators keep releasing fixes and hackers keep trying to exploit weak points of certain applications. Report on MS Windows vulnerability appeared just after it was patched on 8th April. Even though two GDI (graphics device interface) bugs were supposedly fixed, it didn’t […]