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Microsoft April2011 Patch Tuesday Released.

Ayush Sonavane / 15 years
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3 min read

Microsoft has released 17 security bulletins to address publicly disclosed 64 vulnerabilities.Nine bulletins are critical, with all carrying the risk of remote code execution. The remaining eight are ranked important; six of these enable remote code execution, one allows privilege escalation, and the last can lead to information disclosure. The vulnerabilities affect Microsoft Windows, Microsoft […]

New Adobe Flash Zero-Day Found, Embedded in MS Word documents

Ayush Sonavane / 15 years
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2 min read

A critical vulnerability exists in Flash Player 10.2.153.1 and earlier versions (Adobe Flash Player 10.2.154.25 and earlier for Chrome users) for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Solaris, Adobe Flash Player 10.2.156.12 and earlier versions for Android, and the Authplay.dll component that ships with Adobe Reader and Acrobat X (10.0.2) and earlier 10.x and 9.x versions for […]

Malware family “Chepvil” leads rogueware “XP Anti-Virus 2011”.

Pravesh Shinde / 15 years
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1 min read

One after another malware family trying to panic user to install fake security application. Now the Chepvil malware which comes via email as an attachment. The email as shown below: Email Snip The attachment comes with the names doc.zip, details.zip, document.zip. On extracting user gets an executable file with the pdf file icon. If user […]

UPS Malware attachments.

Ranjeet Menon / 15 years
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1 min read

From last few days we have seen a significant increase in the activity related to spam E-mail messages. One of cause of rise is due to malware being heavily distributed by emails as an attachment. The package delivery mails have increased. The email claims itsels to be from UPS or Postal Expres courier service companies […]

“Worm.Ckbface.adj” spreading via Yahoo Messenger

Ayush Sonavane / 15 years
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1 min read

A “Worm.Ckbface.adj” is spreading via Yahoo Instant Messenger ,that tricks people into downloading what they think is a pictures from a friend but is instead malware that installs a backdoor on Windows systems and spreads to a victim’s IM contacts. The worm arrives via a message from a contact with the word “picture” or “pictures” […]

Bank of Baroda Phishing Scam

Ranjeet Menon / 15 years
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1 min read

Its now Bank of Baroda getting targeted for the phishing attacks. A mail having subject line : MESSAGE TO ALL BARODA CONNECT USERS!!! getting circulated containing an attachment. If you click to open the htm file, it displays Bank of Baroda Login form.This form get displayed from your local machine. It ask to fill your […]

Google Chrome-Protecting users from malicious downloads

Ayush Sonavane / 15 years
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1 min read

Google has introduced a new feature for its Chrome browser that will display a warning if a user attempts to download a suspected malicious executable file. The Chrome team are enhancing the implementation of their Safe Browsing API service to include downloaded files. What is the Safe Browsing API? The Safe Browsing API is an […]

Twitter worm Profile Spy spreading fast.

Sanjay Katkar / 15 years
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2 min read

It appears that a new Twitter scam is making its way in lots of innocent users twitter account. We call this a Profile Spy worm app. Its basically a rogue Twitter application known as Profile Spy which tricks Twitter users into believing that it can tell them who has been viewing their online profile. If […]

Security updates available for Adobe Reader and Acrobat

Ayush Sonavane / 15 years
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1 min read

A critical vulnerability has been identified in the authplay.dll component that ships with Adobe Reader and Acrobat X (10.0.1) and earlier 10.x and 9.x versions for Windows and Macintosh operating systems. This vulnerability (CVE-2011-0609), as referenced in Security Advisory APSA11-01, could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected […]

Firefox 4.0 is released

Ayush Sonavane / 15 years
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1 min read

Mozilla finally released the 4.0 version of its well-known open source browser Firefox. Firefox 4 features a new, lighter look, is some six times faster than its predecessor, has lower startup and page load times, and brings goodies like Firefox Sync (for syncing browsing history, bookmaks, tabs across multiple devices), App Tabs, Switch to Tab, […]

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