ANTI-VIRUS NEWS
It's official: Adobe Reader is world's most-exploited app
Adobe's ubiquitous Reader application has replaced Microsoft Word as the program that's most often targeted in malware campaigns, according to figures compiled by F-Secure.…
Vodafone ships Mariposa-infected HTC Magic
Updated Vodafone has been blamed for shipping Mariposa botnet malware and other nasties on a HTC Magic Android smartphones it supplied.…
Energizer Duo software suffers backdoor Trojan bother
A Trojan backdoor found its way into Energizer Duo USB battery charger software downloads.…
Patchy Windows patching leaves users insecure
Windows users need to patch their systems an average of every five days to stay ahead of security vulnerabilities, according to a study this week.…
Scareware sellers fool Google with file switch
Cybercrooks have developed a new technique for manipulating search engine results in order to promote the crud they sell, such as scareware packages.…
Patch Tuesday will leave F1 hole unpatched
Microsoft is planning just two bulletins next week, covering vulnerabilities rated only as "important", as part of this month's Patch Tuesday.…
MS confirms 'F1 to pwn' IE bug
Microsoft has confirmed that an unpatched Internet Explorer vulnerability makes it potentially dangerous to press F1 if you are running earlier versions of Windows.…
How FBI, police busted massive botnet
Analysis More details have emerged about a cybercrime investigation that led to the takedown of a botnet containing 12m zombie PCs and the arrest of three alleged kingpins who built and ran it.…
WoW authenticators bypassed by middlemen hackers
Crooks have developed a man-in-the-middle-attack designed to circumvent authentication kit used by dedicated World of Warcraft gamers.…
Qualys crawls into the malware scanning biz
Qualys is inviting sys admins to sign up to a new free service, QualysGuard Malware Detection, which provides alerts about drive-by-download attacks and malicious scripts on monitored websites.…
Hackers go on Tory-bothering spree
Conservative party websites have been attacked by mischievous hackers over the weekend, who defaced some of the sites and sent spam messages from others urging people to "vote Labour".…
Hordes of new threats ahead for mobile networks
Malware on smartphones is just the first in a series of new security threats for mobile networks ushered in by the embrace of internet technologies, according to mobile phone encryption firms.…
Another NHS hospital stricken with Conficker virus
Analysis The infamous Conficker worm has infected yet another NHS facility.…
Almost 2,500 firms breached in ongoing hack attack
Criminal hackers have penetrated the networks of almost 2,500 companies and government agencies in a coordinated campaign that began 18 months ago and continues to steal email passwords, login credentials, and other sensitive data to this day, a computer security company said.…
Undead botnets blamed for big rise in email malware
Malicious spam volumes increased dramatically in the back half of 2009, reaching three billion messages per day, compared to 600 million messages per day in the first half of 2009. But this is still a tiny fraction of the estimated global spam volume, thought to be about 200 billion messages per day.…
Surprise Adobe update grapples with critical flaws
Adobe published an out-of-sequence update for its Reader and Acrobat software packages on Tuesday that tackles a brace of serious flaws.…
Kaspersky defends false detection experiment
Kaspersky Lab has defended its handling of a controversial experiment criticised by some as a marketing exercise of questionable technical value.…