February 16th, 2012 - 8:04 pm § in Industry News, Malware, Security, Spam

Waledac: The Password Stealing Malware

The spamming malware known as Waledec returns with password stealing abilities. Waledac can now also steal BitCoins, a form of online currency. This botnet was one of the top spam sources on the Internet until it got shut down by Microsoft in cooperation with other security vendors in March 2010. This latest version of Waledac steals FTP, POP3 and SMTP user passwords, as well as .dat files for BitCoin wallets. Palo Alto Networks researchers stated that it is being distributed through Web sessions, probably with the help of exploits hosted on compromised websites. BitDefender is urging users to deploy and update a security solution with antispam and antivirus modules to avoid being attacked.

Source: IT News

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February 16th, 2012 - 4:48 pm § in Industry News, Security, Software

Zero-Day Flash Bug Patched

Adobe recently patched a Flash vulnerability that exploits a flaw in the Flash Player plug-in used by Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. The patch came in the form of a update with the following security advisory attached: “This update resolves a universal cross-site scripting vulnerability [...]

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February 7th, 2012 - 8:15 pm § in Industry News, Mobile

Mobile Internet Users Double in 2011

According to StatCounter, a Web analytics company, mobile access to the Internet nearly doubled to 8.5% over the past 12 months. Though PC desktops still reign supreme for internet access, this increase is certainly worth noting. Internet access through mobile devices, except for laptops, jumped fro[...]

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February 7th, 2012 - 4:27 pm § in Industry News, Security

Denial-of-Service Attacks Increased in Q4

According to reports from Prolexic and Arbor Networks, DDoS attacks rose by 45% during the fourth quarter of 2011 in comparisson to 2010. The average attack bandwidth registered in the fourth quarter of 2011 was 5.2G bps (bits per second), 148 percent higher than what it was during the third quarter[...]

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February 6th, 2012 - 4:52 pm § in Industry News, Security, Spam

Dreamhost Attacked by Spammers

DreamHost reset passwords for all of its customers after discovering that hackers compromised one of its database servers on January 20. Researchers from cloud security vendor Zscaler said rogue PHP pages that redirect users to work-at-home scams have been added to hundreds of websites hosted at D[...]

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January 31st, 2012 - 3:42 pm § in Industry News, Security, Software

Previous Version of WordPress Hacked

Blogs currently using WordPress 3.2.1 were compromised by hackers infecting visitors with the notorious TDSS rootkit. Though this older version of WordPress has some known vulnerabilities, the specifics of how the hackers are getting in is not yet known at this time. Once the hackers do get in, the[...]

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January 30th, 2012 - 9:57 pm § in Industry News, Software

Microsoft’s Office 15 Beta Coming Summer 2012

The next version of Microsoft’s Office suite will be shipped as a public beta this summer. Not much is known at this time of the changes that will be made with the new suite to applications such as Word, Excel and Powerpoint. Microsoft did mention that Office 15 will simultaneously update the[...]

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