“What are you doing?
“To join or to see who invited you, check the attachment.”
Hmmm. That looked interesting. After I clicked on it (in virtual environment), Yahoo renamed the attachment from “Invitation+Card.zip” to “Neutral.gif” and gave a warning:
Nice work Yahoo.
Adobe Reader X runs in a sandbox at a very restricted privilege level. Important system calls are supposed to be handled by a special broker process that will subject them to extensive testing. However, a small design flaw allows attackers to escape from this sandbox and execute arbitrary code – despite having both ASLR (Address…
System Adware Scanner 2010 is phony security software, made to look and act like legitimate security software. System Adware Scanner 2010 is a potentially very dangerous PC infection that should be removed from infected systems immediately. System Adware Scanner 2010 usually uses false security warnings and alerts to frighten people into buying the software. System…
Adobe: The Adobe Photoshop 12.0.2 update (Mac|Win) speeds up painting performance and fixes a number of problems discovered after Photoshop CS5 was released. The most significant fixes in the update include the following: A number of potential security vulnerabilities have been addressed Crashing bugs related to typography & fonts have been addressed Performance of various…
Our good friends at Hanoi, Viet Nam, -based security firm Bkis have written about an interesting malcode lure: Trojans masquerading as updates for popular applications such as Adobe, Java or Windows. The fake updates are distributed with icons of the application they’re impersonating. Analyst Nguyen Cong Cuong wrote: “In addition, on being executed, they immediately…
According to The Telegraph, German prosecutors are accusing two local hackers of breaking into the computers of over 50 pop stars, including Lady Gaga, Kelly Clarkson, Justin Timberlake and Ke$ha. (Wouldn’t you have to be pretty brave to blackmail Lady Gaga? She can be, um, scary. ) Ralf Haferkamp, from the Duisburg prosecutor’s office, said…
If you have children that play Neopets, you might want to warn them about this website or insert it into a blocklist of your choosing. The site is Neopoints(dot)tk, and promises lots of free Neopoints related items, with the help of a cute mascot called “Tuma the Draik”. I think there was a Norwegian prog…