Security researchers from antivirus vendor Trend Micro announce that a newly discovered web malware sample uses a code obfuscation technique that generates a different encryption key for every infected page. Decrypting the code without knowing the original URL is impossible. Trend Micro detects this malware as JS_VI... |
29 June 2009
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Microsoft's commitment to offering end-users protection from malware does not stop with the promise of the free codename Morro antivirus planned for mid-2009. In this regard, the company has tweaked Live Search, enabling the search engine to prevent access to websites hosting malicious code. The addition of malw... |
4 December 2008
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Microsoft has expanded the Live Search Webmaster Center toolkit with new items designed to sniff for malware. Via the tools added to the Webmaster Center, web content owners will be able to detect malicious code present on their website, or on the pages of a website that they link to. The Redmond giant's corne... |
26 November 2008
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Windows crashes and blue screen have become without a doubt the stuff of popular culture, with Microsoft's operating system being derided, criticized and mocked for its luxuriant variety of issues, independent of the actual version of the platform. Raymond Chen, a developer on the Windows Shell team at Microsoft... |
21 May 2008
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Updates are now available for Safari and Firefox (Mac and Windows) users. Both Safari 3.1.1 and FireFox 2.0.0.14 address security issues. As some of you may have already hinted, with the release of Safari 3.1.1, Apple has patched the flaw Charlie Miller used to win 10 Gs and a MacBook Air in the PWN 2 OWN contest at ... |
17 April 2008
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Software bugs and computer viruses were hackers' favorite means of taking over your computer. However, things could get a lot worse with the advent of a new threat, that aims directly at computers' hardware components. A group of researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign managed to hack ... |
16 April 2008
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Following the boost in the diversity of platforms available to consumers, on top of the Windows operating system, members of the security industry warned that alternative solutions would come under fire just as the Microsoft software products. Although the threat environment is currently focused on Windows, due to it... |
30 January 2008
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Windows Live Messenger accounts for the largest community for any IM client worldwide. At the end of 2007, in November, as Microsoft was unveiling Windows Live 2.0, the next generation of its suite of software and services in the cloud, the company estimated that Windows Live Messenger had an install base of approxim... |
29 January 2008
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When I first got a hold of this piece of news I thought that it must be just another case of a fired security expert that goes berserk on his ex-employers…it's far more than that though. Yung-Hsun Lin used to be a system administrator at Medco Health Solutions. For fear that he would get fired, he wrote and plan... |
20 September 2007
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