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[...]
Malware Masked by DNS on the Rise
Experts at the RSA Conference 2012 on Tuesday stated that malware threats that receive instructions from attackers through DNS is expected to rise. Attackers will often use channels like TCP, IRC, HTTP, Twitter feeds, Facebook walls and even YouTube comments to communicate with botnets that sprea[...]
