Facebook Password Reset Confirmation Email is most likely malware
If you noticed an email in your inbox stating “Facebook Password Reset Confirmation”… Do not open it unless you specifically asked for a password reset.
This is the latest exploit going around on the web trying to infect your machine with a virus.
As usual, it targets [...]
Adobe warns about another Acrobat vulnerability
Adobe has released another warning related to their Acrobat range of products.
The company said that these new vulnerabilities are critical in nature and they are working on issuing fixes for them.
Adobe said that the following products are affected:
Adobe Reader 9.1.3, Acrobat 9.1.3, Adobe Reader 8.1.6, and [...]
AVG warns of attacks on Facebook social network
AVG has warned that Facebook social network is being used by scammers to target users with spywares.
Fake profile pages are being made with similar data but links to harmful content.
A company blog post stated: “We’re seeing rather a lot of these, all from different profiles, [...]
Upgrade your WordPress if you want to prevent hack attempts
WordPress is in news for a security problem. Developers of this popular open source blogging platform fixed the issue last month but still a lot of blogs are being targeted with this old hack.
If you are running a blog using an outdated edition, we suggest [...]
Microsoft to release emergency patch for Internet Explorer
Microsoft has revealed that they would be issuing critical updates for their Internet Explorer web browser.
This patch is expected to be released later today and arrives before the next scheduled patch Tuesday release from the company.
Microsoft has been forced to release this untimely update after security experts [...]
Adobe provides insecure version of Acrobat Reader by default!
Secunia has reported that Adobe has been offering an insecure outdated version of Acrobat Reader from their website.
When the user installs the Acrobat Reader from Adobe.com, the version installed is an old one which has several vulnerabilities.
Adobe has issued a couple of updates for this version. [...]
Java bug revealed as Apple delays fix for Mac OS X
Apple has been criticized for being slow with updates related to Java on Mac OS X platform.
As a result, a security researcher has made public the attack code that exploits the flaw.
Sun Microsystems has already updated the Java releases for other platforms.
Landon [...]
Adobe Reader has another critical flaw
Adobe Acrobat continues to remain in news for all the wrong reasons.
Another critical flaw has been discovered in the technology that is widely used around the world.
US-CERT has reported that the Adobe Reader application suffers from a serious flaw that is still not patched.
This latest flaw is related [...]
SpywareProtect2009 malware being downloaded by Conficker
Conficker is finally active and showing what it was designed to do.
Security experts have revealed that the computers infected with the Conficker worm are being delivered malware which includes the scareware product SpywareProtect2009.
Products like SpywareProtect2009 are called scareware as they try to scare users into believing that their system [...]
Conficker comes back to life with an update
Conficker worm is back in news as security experts have said that it has started updating itself with some new mysterious data.
The update system has delivered encrypted software to compromised machines.
No information is yet available on what sort of data is being supplied to the machines infected [...]
