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 […]
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 […]
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 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” […]
We are very much used to connect a new trendy gadget to our laptop to explore its features and configure etc. Many gadgets has memory card or storage in it to support lot of features like digital camera, music players video players, Mobile phones. All of these when connected to PC are showed as storage […]
Adobe has released an update for Adobe Photoshop CS4 to provide remedial measures for the vulnerabilities identified in Adobe Photoshop CS4 11.0.1 and its earlier versions. The vulnerabilities identified in Adobe Photoshop CS4, allows an attacker to take control of an affected system whenever a user opens a malicious file having extensions like ‘.ASL’, ‘.ABR’ […]
Yesterday I received a suspicious email with a attachment. The mail had subject line as: Thank you for buying iTunes Gift Certificate! I am a iPhone user and do have my account at Apple Store. Initially a thought came in my mind like whether somebody had hacked into my Apple Store account and done a […]
This blog is the second part of Prominent and efficient tools of Quick Heal Admin Console blog series. In this part, I will provide information about the inception and features of yet another prominent and efficient tool of Quick Heal Admin Console i.e. Quick Heal Admin Console Standalone Update Manager. Let me tell you how […]
Yesterday while traveling to office I saw the hoarding of save tiger the on-going initiative undertaken by Aircel partnered with WWF-India to help “Save Our Tigers”. According to the latest Tiger census in India we have only 1411 left in wild. So I thought of joining this initiative by doing my bit so when i […]
