July’s patch release (blogged by Basant) marks the end of patching support for both Windows 2000 and Windows XP Service Pack 2. So, from now on there’ll be no security updates, hotfixes and other updates for Windows XP SP2, regardless of how serious a threat and newly discovered vulnerability may pose to users of this […]
Microsoft has released its security bulletin for July 2010. This month Microsoft has released four bulletins, addressing total five vulnerabilities. All four bulletins are related to “Remote Code Execution” vulnerability. Out of the four bulletins, three bulletins are rated “Critical” and one bulletin is rated “Important”. The following bulletins have been rated “Critical”: – Bulletin […]
I recently received a mail with the subject line “Mercedes Benz Promotion (Test Questions)”. The subject line was a clear indication that a scam was in the offering. Scammers always keep changing their techniques and try to exploit scenarios that might lure people to fall for their trap. In this scam, the scammers have tried […]
Lagos in Nigeria had been witnessing lot of fraudulent Internet activities as cybercafés out there had a major customer base of cyber criminals. Recently the law enforcement authorities in Cyber Crime unit in Lagos are constantly revising their strategies in their efforts towards cleaning out scammers from the nation. Being in anti-virus research we come […]
In my earlier blog, I had mentioned how scammers had used current events such as “FIFA World Cup 2010” to launch fraudulent scams. But in this latest scam a sly approach has been taken by scammers to extract personal infromation from victims. I recently received a mail with the words LOAN APPLICATION in the subject […]
Recently I came across a below website that is promoting itself through twitter accounts of its members. When I saw its home page I was surprised to learn how people are coming out with innovative ways to collect innocent users login names and passwords of twitter accounts. Further this website seems to be using these […]
Firefox 3.6.4 has been released, this version address 7 vulnerabilities which range from critical issues such as denial of service or arbitrary code execution bugs along with a few lower level issues. Below is list of critical vulnerabilities fixed in this version MFSA 2010-30 Integer Overflow in XSLT Node Sorting MFSA 2010-29 Heap buffer overflow […]
Adobe has released an emergency update that patches at least 17 holes in its Reader and Acrobat applications. Adobe was to release patches on July 13, but since the critical vulnerabilities were actively being exploited, the company released the fixes ahead of time. The fixes address a vulnerability in Windows, Mac, and Linux versions of […]
Looking at the number of unique malwares that we are receiving in our lab on day to day basis, it clearly points to the fact that the cyber crime activity is growing exponentially. I was wondering when this will stop or come under control and the answer unfortunately is at least not in near future. […]
Adobe has released a Security Bulletin on the second week of June that lists out vulnerabilities identified for the following software: – Adobe Flash Player 10.0.45.2 and earlier versions for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Solaris – Adobe AIR 1.5.3.9130 and earlier versions for Windows, Macintosh and Linux A total of 32 vulnerabilities were identified. Adobe […]