Archives for the 'Internet security' Category
Second half of 2007 Web security report
San Diego`s security company Websense published web security report of the second half of 2007. Report summarizes the significant findings of Websense Security Labs during the third and fourth quarters of
2007. Top countries hosting phishing and crimeware sites are United States, China, India and Russia.
In considering the prospects of development of network and future safety […]
Next update to Norton 360
Symantec is ready for shipping a test version of the next update to Norton 360 desktop security software.
There are plenty of new features with Norton security suite that should be mentioned: Drive-by download security update, backup of new types of devices such as iPods or Blu-ray drives, new identity-theft protection features & Symantec Online Network […]
The US is the King Kong of spam
NEWS.com.au - Australia
The US is the King Kong of spam, IBM's Internet Security Systems
X-Force team saying 13 per cent of the world's spam originated in the
US, well ahead of Poland (7.1 per cent) and Russia and Germany, tied in third place at 5.9 per cent each.
Email security specialist Commtouch says spam has reached an all-time […]
A new Mac Trojan horse
Macs are really no safer than Windows PC? A fake codec pretends to be a free video codec from porno sites, but it’s not a video codec at all.
The attack does not use any vulnerability in the Mac OS. Instead, Trojan horse ask a user to approve the download, then enter his computer’s administrator’s password […]
Adobe vulnerability & russian hackers
Malware writers are massively spamming an exploit for the recently patched Adobe vulnerability, and experts said the attacks will continue. A Russian hacker`s gang is responsible for ongoing last attacks using malicious PDF documents, a researcher said Wednesday. One of the exploits has been traced by security experts to the Russian Business Network (RBN).
Adobe patched […]
