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Tests Show Problems With AV Detections
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Dateline: Moscow. Here at a security press conference held by Kaspersky Lab, the company demonstrated how some malware detections are easily triggered by innocuous programs. The problem arises when one vendor detects a threat. Samples are often passed on to other vendors, through multi-scanning services like VirusTotal. The fact that another vendor,... [Read more of this review]
Mozilla admits Firefox add-ons contained Trojan code
Mozilla has issued a warning that two add-ons available from AMO (addons.mozilla.org, the Mozilla Add-ons website) were infected by malicious code capable of infecting Windows computers. According to a security notice on AMO’s blog, the Master Filer add-on was infected by the LdPinch password-stealing Trojan, and Sothink Web Video Downloader... [Read more of this review]
Operation Aurora: Microsoft knew about Internet Explorer flaw for four months
On Thursday there were sighs of relief from all corners as Microsoft released a security patch for a vulnerability that had been exploited by hackers. The patch fixed a critical zero-day vulnerability in versions of Internet Explorer that would have meant visiting a boobytrapped webpage could have infected your computer, opening a backdoor for remote... [Read more of this review]
Facebook unnamed app: Hackers poison search results
Thanks to Clu-blog reader Jamie for contacting me regarding a scare that is currently spreading bewteen Facebook users. Users of the social-networking site are warning each other of what is rumoured to be a rogue application, spying on their activities on Facebook. Users are told in the warning that they can find the “Unnamed app” by... [Read more of this review]
German Government: Don’t use Internet Explorer
The German government has advised computer users not to run Internet Explorer and run an alternative browser instead, because of a critical zero-day security flaw. The advice, which came in the form of an official statement from the German Federal Office for Security in Information Technology (known as the Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik... [Read more of this review]
Danger! Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability – no patch yet
Microsoft has released a security advisory about a previously unknown vulnerability in versions of Internet Explorer. There is currently no patch for the vulnerability which is being blamed, in part, for the high-profile attacks against Google, Adobe and other companies. Microsoft has published some mitigation advice and workarounds which can reportedly... [Read more of this review]
Banking malware found on Android Marketplace
An application for smartphones running the Google Android operating system has been reported to steal users’ banking information. According to a blog post from the First Tech Credit Union, an app developer called 09Droid created applications which posed as a shell for mobile banking applications, and in the process phished personal information... [Read more of this review]
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