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Article | 5/05/2010 Foxit Reader update blocks new PDF attack tactic
Foxit Software, the developer of a rival PDF viewer to Adobe's vulnerability-plagued Reader, released an update today that blocks some attacks with a ...
Article | 4/05/2010 US Treasury Web sites hacked, serving malware
Three Web sites belonging to the US Department of the Treasury have been hacked to attack visitors with malicious software, security vendor AVG says.
Article | 1/05/2010 New cyber attacks more malicious than Love Bug: Symantec
A decade after the Love Bug virus attacked millions of computers worldwide and put the Philippines in the IT world map in a negative way, computer sec...
Article | 29/04/2010 Major malware campaign abuses unfixed PDF flaw
Several security companies today warned of a major malware campaign that tries to dupe users into opening rigged PDFs that exploit an unpatched design...
Article | 24/04/2010 UK National Health Service hit with malware infection
Computers belonging to the UK's National Health Service have been hit with data-stealing malware, although it doesn't appear patient information was s...
Article | 16/04/2010 Fireshark plugin decodes the malicious Web
A computer security researcher has released a plugin for Firefox that provides a wealth of data on Web sites that may have been compromised with malic...
Article | 16/04/2010 Researchers find bugs in archive file formats
Researchers have found ways to hide malicious software in commonly used archival formats that went undetected until recently by most antivirus program...
Article | 13/04/2010 Malicious Facebook ad redirected to fake antivirus software
A malicious advertisement has been found within an application for Facebook that redirected users to fake antivirus software, according to a security ...
Article | 6/04/2010 Malicious PDF file doesn't need a software vulnerability
A security researcher has found a way to run arbitrary code on Windows computers by embedding it in a malicious PDF file.
Article | 31/03/2010 Google: Malware targets Vietnamese activists
Google says that politically motivated malware has been used to spy on Vietnamese computer users and attack activist blogs over the past several month...
Article | 25/03/2010 Security companies warn of uptick in new IE attack
Criminals are stepping up their attacks leveraging an unpatched flaw in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser, using it to install fake antivirus prod...
Article | 19/03/2010 Facebook users targeted in massive spam run
Facebook's 400 million users have been targeted by a spam run that could infect their computers with malicious software designed to steals passwords a...
Article | 18/03/2010 Malware found on another HTC Magic smartphone
Traces of the now defunct Mariposa botnet has been found on another HTC Magic from Vodafone in Spain, security company Panda wrote in a blog post on W...
Article | 18/03/2010 After weeklong fight, rogue ISP Troyak struggles for life
After an international take-down effort, a rogue ISP responsible for controlling large numbers of computers infected with data-stealing code is down f...
Article | 16/03/2010 Trusteer rolls out malware forensic tool for banks
Security vendor Trusteer's latest product will allow banks to remotely investigate their customers' computers if it is suspected the PC has been hacke...