Domain name scams Intellectual property is a very complex area and covers a vast range of diverse subjects. As a result, there are opportunities for bad guys and fake organizations to take advantage of those wishing to secure protection for their domains. Recently we received a mail as below. —————————————- Subject: Urgent Message- About Internet […]
As per Sanjay’s earlier blog, the Independence Day offer of Quick Heal Technologies, provided three additional months of updates for free if the Quick Heal product was activated on 14th, 15th or 16th August 2010. Due to the popular demand of this offer Quick Heal Technologies has extended the offer till 18th August 2010. So […]
Celebrations of 64th Independence Day for 15th August 2010 has already begin. Independence Day is our opportunity to celebrate India’s hard fought freedom. It is a time to reflect on how far the nation has come. As we Indian’s celebrate the 64th Independence Day, we are faced with greater challenges and more responsibility towards the […]
New online game where you can adopt your very own pet monster offered by Moshi Monster, seem to be catching up. As we witnessed SEO Poisoning with Moshi Monster. When searched in Google it returned Visiting poisoned links lead to Rogueware installation FraudTool.MySecurity
Users of iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch and can heave a sigh of relief as Apple has kept its word and released a security patch for a vulnerability that could have exposed the concerned devices to malicious attacks. The vulnerability existed in Apple’s Safari browser and the way it handled Adobe Acrobat PDF documents. For […]
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 […]
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 – […]
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 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 […]
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 […]