An emergency update was issued by Adobe today to solve a vulnerability problem with Flash player. This active exploit seems to be affecting most users of Internet Explorer. Adobe labeled the bug a “object confusion vulnerability” that can cause Flash player to crash and potentially allow[...]
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April 17th, 2012 - 4:54 pm § in Industry News, Software
Four Editions of Windows 8
Microsoft has announced that their upcoming operating system, Windows 8, will be available in four varieties for different consumers. The version for home users will be called Windows 8. Business users looking for features like virtualization and file system encryption will find all that in Windows [...]
April 11th, 2012 - 9:10 pm § in Industry News, Software
No Support for Windows XP in 2014
By April of 2014, Microsoft will discontinue support for the Windows XP operating system. This includes no longer providing security updates or patches. For those who want to upgrade their OS for their organization, Microsoft recommends using Windows Intune which makes transitioning easier from XP[...]
April 9th, 2012 - 7:30 pm § in Industry News, Software
Windows Vista and Office 2007 Retired from Support
In the next two days, Windows Vista and Office 2007 will be retired from mainstream support and go into what they call extended support. Patches will continue to be issued for the software, but all other support will be reserved for organizations under Microsoft’s support contract. Security up[...]
Flashback Botnet Infected Large Number of Macs
The Flashback malware exported via a Java exploit has already infected over 600,000 Mac computers. This new version of Flashback that appeared last fall differs from it’s previous version by relying on a Java flaw than social engineering trickery. Apple issued a Java update that addressed this[...]
Mac OS Trojan Through Microsoft Word File
A vulnerability has been discovered in Microsoft Office on Mac OS that infects computers with a remote access Trojan. A rogue e-mail which seems to be targeted at Tibetan activist organizations comes attached with a booby-trapped Word file. Once opened, a new Trojan is loaded that allows remote acce[...]
Chrome Extensions Gaining Unauthorized Access to Facebook
Some rogue browser extensions from the Chrome Web Store contain Tojans that can access your Facebook account. These malicious apps are advertised on Facebook claiming to be able to change the color of profile pages, tracking profile visitors or removing social media viruses. Once installed, attacke[...]
Malware in Your Memory via Java
Visitors of the Russian news sites www.ria.ru and www.gazeta.ru have received some tricky new malware. This Java-based attack injects malware files that hide in a computer’s memory making it very hard to detect. The attack itself wasn’t part of the actual website programming, but the b[...]
March 14th, 2012 - 7:29 pm § in Industry News, Software
Firefox and Chrome Coming to Windows 8
Users of Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome can rest a little easier as these browsers are currently in development for Windows 8. Development has already begun at Mozilla to create a Firefox app that will incorporate the Metro theme of the new operating system. The new browser, dubbed Firefox 14, wi[...]
March 12th, 2012 - 5:35 pm § in Industry News, Software
Crashing Flash Applications in Google Chrome
Users of Google’s Chrome internet browser may experience some crashing with Flash-based applications. This is due to a restriction written into the browser that limits the size of Flash files displayed. Such files would end up crashing and displaying an error of ’0xABAD1DEA’ to p[...]
