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Cyber Criminals (Yahoo Boys) giving good business to Cybercafes in Nigeria

  • Sanjay Katkar / 16 years
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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 […]

Beware of Loan Scam

  • Nandini Seth / 16 years
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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 […]

Increase your twitter followers, an innovative way to get victims

  • Sanjay Katkar / 16 years
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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 […]

Update Mozilla Firefox

  • Ranjeet Menon / 16 years
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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 releases emergency patch for Reader and Acrobat

  • Yashowardhan Rai / 16 years
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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 […]

Growing cyber crime rate indicates lack of skilled staff

  • Sanjay Katkar / 16 years
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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. […]

Time to update Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR

  • Nandini Seth / 16 years
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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 […]

Microsoft to discontinue support for Windows XP SP2 and Windows 2000

  • Nandini Seth / 16 years
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Microsoft has announced that it will discontinue support for Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Windows 2000 after July 13, 2010. Support for Windows Vista Release to Manufacturing (RTM) has already been discontinued since April 2010. Microsoft has also announced that users with unsupported version of Windows or Service Pack will not be eligible for […]

Microsoft Windows Help and Support Center vulnerability

  • Ranjeet Menon / 16 years
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The vulnerability for Microsoft Windows Help and Support Center is being exploited in the wild. More information for this vulnerability at https://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/2219475.mspx . The vulnerability allows for infecting a Windows system by visiting manipulated web sites, for example (drive-by-download). Microsoft now has released a “Fix It” tool which unregisters the HCP protocol as a workaround, […]

Microsoft Security Bulletin released for the month of June

  • Nandini Seth / 16 years
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Microsoft has released its security bulletin for June 2010. This month Microsoft has released 10 bulletins, addressing total 30 vulnerabilities. Out of the 10 bulletins three bulletins have been rated “Critical” and seven bulletins have been rated “Important”. Six bulletins are related to “Remote Code Execution” vulnerability, three bulletins are related to “Elevation of Privilege” […]