Blogs | Page 15

Trojan Masquerades as Microsoft Security Essentials

By Brian Prince | Posted: 2010-10-22

Researchers from F-Secure have uncovered a Trojan posing as Microsoft Security Essentials. The Trojan is spreading through drive-by downloads as hotfix.exe or mstsc.exe,
... Read More

Attackers Improve Zeus Trojan to Beat Security

By Brian Prince | Posted: 2010-10-20

Malware authors have released a new version of the Zeus crimeware, security researchers reported Oct. 20. The latest version of Zeus, which Trusteer is calling 2.1, has improved the
... Read More

Attackers Adopt 'Advanced Evasion Techniques' to Beat IPS

By Brian Prince | Posted: 2010-10-18

Attackers are advancing their techniques, and intrusion prevention systems need to advance as well. That is the lesson to be taken from new research from security firm
... Read More

Oracle Issues Massive Security Update

By Brian Prince | Posted: 2010-10-12

Microsoft wasn't the only company that released a massive update today. Oracle pushed out its final update of the year, complete with 85 security fixes. Oracle initially announced it was
... Read More

Spam Uses New Technique to Hide URLs

By Brian Prince | Posted: 2010-10-08

Researchers at Symantec caught spammers using a new technique to obfuscate URLs. Spammers have traditionally tried to obfuscate e-mail headers or bodies to sneak past filters. "So far, we
... Read More

CA Examines Growth of Trojans, Crimeware as a Service

By Brian Prince | Posted: 2010-10-07

In a new report, CA Technologies highlighted the growth of Trojans and the twists and turns of the market for crimeware-as-a-service. Researchers identified more than 400 new
... Read More

Adobe Patches Reader, Acrobat in Massive Update

By Brian Prince | Posted: 2010-10-05

Adobe Systems patched 23 flaws in Reader and Acrobat today, including two the company warned about last month. "Today's updates resolve critical vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader 9.3.4
... Read More

First <12131415