It’s the festive time of the year and many of you may be thinking of purchasing things online. In today’s busy world it is always convenient to buy things online. This is the time when the online fraud is also on the rise. Lot of “fly by night” business website started to appear. These untrustworthy […]
Quick Heal Technologies is happy to announce its new slogan. “Security Simplified” With Quick Heal 2011 coming ahead soon, all the focus has been towards simplifying security which leads us towards this new slogan. I here by also reveal new Quick Heal 2011 looks. Quick Heal 2011 has all new users interface. The dash board […]
Thursday we observed a new worm that started to spread over Internet by emailing the address books of infected PC. The email contains the subject line as “Here you have” or “Just for you” and contains a link to a file which seems to be a PDF file. The email when received in inbox looks […]
A critical vulnerability (CVE-2010-2883) exists in Adobe Reader 9.3.4 and earlier versions for Windows, Macintosh and Unix and Adobe Acrobat 9.3.4 and earlier versions for Windows and Macintosh. This vulnerability could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. Currently we have not come across such sample but […]
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 […]
Black Hat 2010 will kick start few hours from now. Lot of security experts and security community guys and gals will be looking forward for the latest news and happenings there. I am one of the guy who could not make it to the Black Hat and gona miss the fun. I am sure there […]
Lot is being discussed and written about the latest StuxNet worm/virus/trojan/rootkit. After analyzing the StuxNet samples and having closer look at the .LNK files I realized that lot of miss concepts are making round over the internet. Many of the security news websites have just copied the contents of blogs and added their own conclusions […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
