Staggering Increase in Android Malware Variants, Trojan Apps The number of malicious programs that target Google's Android mobile platform is growing at an alarming rate, according to data from anti-malware company F-Secure. The number of malicious programs that target Google’s Android mobile platform is growing at an alarming rate, according to data from anti-malware company F-Secure. [...]
iPhone, iPad Popularity Could Threaten Enterprise Security: Zscaler The security research firm found that Apple iOS traffic on the Web is growing, which will most likely draw more hacker interest to the mobile devices. – Apple devices from iPhones to iPads to Macs are becoming more prominent in enterprises as employees bring them to work, [...]
Apple patches Safari, blocks outdated Flash Player Apple on Wednesday patched four security vulnerabilities in Safari and blocked outdated versions of Adobe’s Flash Player from running in its browser. Cybercriminals targeting users on Tumblr and Pinterest Online crooks are moving beyond just Facebook and Twitter to try to trick users into downloading malicious payloads. Digest [...]
Yet Another SQL Injection Attack Somehow these SQL Injections targetting ASP/ASP.net sites just never seem to abate. First there was Lizamoon… Surprising us with the millions of websites that got injected. Then came a few others with the recent ones being nikjju.com and hgbyju.com. Now came njukol… Although the name is no longer as catchy [...]
Skype IP Address Vulnerability May Not Be So New A vulnerability in Skype that could expose members' IP addresses may have been known to Skype officials as far back as November 2010. A researcher who first discovered the flaw speculates it may have been left exposed perhaps because it was deeply embedded in the code and [...]
Release of exploit code puts Oracle Database users at risk of attack Oracle has declined to patch a critical vulnerability in its flagship database product, leaving customers vulnerable to attacks that siphon confidential information from corporate servers and execute malware on backend systems, a security researcher said. Virtually all versions of the Oracle Database Server [...]
90% of popular SSL sites vulnerable to exploits, researchers find Less than 10 percent of the most popular websites offering Secure Socket Layer protection are hardened against known attacks that could allow hackers to decrypt or tamper with encrypted traffic, researchers said Thursday. The grim figure was generated by SSL Pulse, a website that monitors [...]
New, sneakier Flashback malware infects Macs A new, sneakier variant of the Flashback malware has been uncovered by the French security firm Intego. Digest powered by RSS Digest
New Flashback variant making the rounds Flashback.S installs itself without a password and then deletes files and folders to mask its presence, a security company announces. Both Mac and Windows are Targeted at Once Symantec Security Response, along with some other security vendors, reported the discovery of the OSX.Flashback malware recently patched by Apple. Many [...]
Mac Flashback Attack Started With Compromised WordPress Blogs Apple Mac users who visited the hijacked WordPress sites were infected by the malware, which morphed from a Trojan horse to a drive-by exploit, Kaspersky researchers said. – The Flashback malware that eventually infected more than 600,000 Macs worldwide probably started from tens of thousands of WordPress [...]