Cyber-crime syndicate tried to intimidate antivirus vendor. In some cases, cyber-security work can turn really dangerous, and even deadly, if you manage to disrupt the revenue stream of international crime syndicates.Read More →
Gatekeeper is Mac OS X’s guardian against rogue applications and malware sneaking into Apple’s famous walled garden. It’s also been a favorite target of researchers and advanced attackers desperate toRead More →
Vulnerability allowed hackers to hijack active user sessions.Microsoft Exchange Server has been recently patched to fix an important security vulnerability which would have allowed attackers to gain access to activeRead More →
Threat actors are using a previously discovered distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack tool dubbed XOR DDoS to launch upwards of 20 DoS attacks a day against targets in Asia and otherRead More →
SAP patched a dozen holes in its in-memory management system, HANA, that could have led to SQL injection attacks, cross-site scripting (XSS) errors, and memory corruption vulnerabilities. Many of theRead More →
WinRAR, the popular file compression and decompression utility, has a security vulnerability that allows attackers to remotely execute code on the user’s computer when opening an SFX (Self-extracting archive) file.Read More →
The Dyreza Trojan long ago ceased its exclusive focus on stealing banking credentials, and has been blamed for its part in attacks against Salesforce.com customers, webhosts and registrars, online retailersRead More →
Fugitive US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden has opened an account on the social network website Twitter. His opening tweet was: “Can you hear me now?” In his profile, Mr SnowdenRead More →
Pirate Bay is online and playing a game of cat and mouse with IP regulators. Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg was released from a Swedish prison Saturday, three years afterRead More →
VBA stands for Visual Basic for Applications and is a programming language developed by Microsoft to help programmers create Windows applications using an easy-to-understand coding syntax. According to a researchRead More →
