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Microsoft Security Bulletin released for the month of August

Nandini Seth / 15 years
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4 min read

Microsoft has released its security bulletin for August 2010. This month Microsoft has released 15 bulletins, addressing total 32 vulnerabilities. Out of the 15 bulletins, nine bulletins have been rated “Critical” and six bulletins have been rated “Important”. 11 bulletins are related to “Remote Code Execution” vulnerability and four bulletins are related to “Elevation of […]

TrojanPSW.Zbot spam campaign

Ayush Sonavane / 15 years
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1 min read

A new variant of TrojanPSW.Zbot campaign themed – FDIC has officially named your bank failed bank – An unauthorized transaction billed to your bank account – You are in a higher tax bracket – Your Order with Amazon.com” is currently flooding the mailboxes The email pretends to be from the – American Bankers Association – […]

Macy’s, Costco brand names used by Rogueware

Ayush Sonavane / 15 years
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1 min read

Recently we have received e-mails which leads to new Rogueware infection and the e-mail are sent using well known brand names like Macy’s, Costco Photo Center. E-mail contains a below URL which is a fake online scanner and it offers you to download file antivirus_2.exe later on. hxxp://ho[xxxx]ami.cz.cc/scanner5/?afid=24 The file “antivirus_2.exe” downloads and installs Rogueware […]

Microsoft released Updates for LNK file Vulnerability

Pravesh Shinde / 15 years
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1 min read

Microsoft has released updates to resolve the vulnerability which is discussed in Security Advisory 2286198 and which is being exploited. More information regarding the vulnerability can be found on the below links https://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/2286198.mspx https://blogarchive.quickheal.com/index.php?/archives/166-CVE-2010-2568-LNK-file-automatically-executes-code-in-Control-Panel-shortcuts.html https://blogarchive.quickheal.com/index.php?/archives/167-StuxNet,-CVE-2010-2568-misconceptions-and-facts.html The patch to resolve the vulnerability is released and it is available to download visit below link. https://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms10-046.mspx We recommend […]

One more Twitter scam to increase fake followers.

Sanjay Katkar / 15 years
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2 min read

Popularity of Twitter is growing and so are the scams on this popular social networking website. Its kind of cool to have Twitter account and having thousands of followers on Twitter is kind of icing on cake. This greed of having more followers is being targeted by the scammers on Twitter. Few months back I […]