January 16th, 2009 in News
Internet Users Continue to Amaze with Foolish Passwords
It is a disgrace that humans haven’t still got the hang of setting passwords. It seems as though that most internet users have inextricably tethered themselves to a promise of not setting strong-enough passwords, which may force hackers to reconsider their choice of profession for its grueling nature. As you devour more of this story, you will begin to envy hackers for having it stroll-in-the-park easy.
A new study has revealed – rather reite… read more »
January 16th, 2009 in News
This month’s Microsoft patches could lead to a hectic week for IT managers
This week could be ‘hectic’ with Microsoft offering a critical patch for Internet Explorer.
Alan Bentley, regional VP EMEA of Lumension, said even though there are only two critical patches being issued tomorrow, it could still be a hectic week as the most critical patch this month is the IE bulletin requiring a reboot of all XP and Vista machines in the organisation running IE 7.
Bentley said: “Large-scale reboots of all desktops can … read more »
January 16th, 2009 in News
The websites of two major providers of security products have been hit by hackers.
A new Valentine’s Day spam email has been detected by Websense as containing a Waledac variant. Websense Security Labs has reported to have seen several fake Valentine’s Day sites serving up malware recently, with an increase in adult dating and ‘healthcare’ related email spam released to mark the occasion. Carl Leonard, Websense threat research manager, claimed that it works by the user opening the URL in the spammed message … read more »
January 16th, 2009 in News
Kaspersky Lab and BitDefender websites hit by hackers
The websites of two major providers of security products have been hit by hackers.
The website of Russian IT security provider Kaspersky Lab was hit at the weekend by a Romanian ‘white-hat’ hacker.
A group calling itself ‘the Romanian Security Team’ claimed that the hackers achieved full access to the database supporting the websites – which includes customer data – by simply altering a parameter in the URLs. They could also p… read more »
January 16th, 2009 in News
Hackers attack antivirus firm’s tech-support site
February 16, 2009 (Computerworld) A Kaspersky Lab technical support site was hacked late last month, exposing private customer information for 11 days, the Moscow-based security company admitted last week. The company learned of and closed the breach on Feb. 7 after it was notified by the Romanian hackers.
“This is not good for any company, especially for a company dealing with security,” acknowledged Roel Schouwenberg, a senior antiv… read more »
January 16th, 2009 in Anti-Virus
Security and authentication added to pay TV services from TC TrustCenter
TC TrustCenter has been mandated to implement certification for the CI Plus standard in Europe.
It is to provide certification to protect premium digital TV content against piracy with the new CI Plus Common Interface Standard. TC TrustCenter will provide certificate issuance and management services and the necessary registration for all manufacturers of TV devices, digital recorders and conditional access modules that want to license the CI Plus… read more »
January 16th, 2009 in News
Valentine’s Day spam currently accounting for nine per cent of all malware
The amount of spam relating to Valentine’s Day has risen from two to three per cent of all spam to nine per cent this week alone.
MessageLabs claims that 6.5 per cent of the spam sent has originated from the Cutwail botnet, with one to two per cent of spam sent from the Xarvester botnet. The company claimed that the most active botnet Mega-D, has not been involved in sending St. Valentine’s related spam so far.
Paul Wood, MessageLabs … read more »
January 12th, 2009 in News
Kaspersky denies data leak following SQL hack
Russian antivirus vendor Kaspersky Labs’s US website was hacked over the weekend, exposing the company’s customer database, but Kaspersky has denied data was compromised and says the vulnerability wasn’t critical.
An unidentified hacker reported over the weekend that he was able to access a complete profile of the company’s databases, revealing its clients’ names, activation codes, list of bugs the company tracks and… read more »
January 12th, 2009 in Anti-Virus
Windows 7 security faces growing criticism
Microsoft is facing increasing heat over the security implications of a change designed to make Windows 7 more user-friendly than its predecessor.
One of the chief complaints with Windows Vista is frustration with all the warnings that pop up to notify users that changes are being made to the operating system. With Windows 7, Microsoft has changed the feature so that users see fewer messages by default and also so they have more control in decidi… read more »
January 12th, 2009 in News
