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- Adobe news: Sandboxed Flash Player for Firefox released - This week Adobe launched a beta version of Flash Player for Firefox. This version is better for its sandbox feature. February 8, 2012
- Google fights Android malware - It is well known problem that the Android App Market has been constantly attacked by scammers. Now Google has released a special filter that automatically scans the newly uploaded apps for malware this way drastically reducing the amount of malware infect February 8, 2012
- Denial-of-service flaw is fixed by Oracle - Recently, Oracle released a patch which fixed denial-of-service vulnerability in the Oracle WebLogic Server, Application Server and iPlanet Web Server. In a security bulletin Oracle warned that "vulnerability may be remotely exploitable without authentica February 7, 2012
- Scammers utilize the closing of Megaupload - You might already heard about this – one of the largest file sharing sites Megaupload.com has been closed down by the U.S. government and its creator Kim Schmitz aka Kim Dotcom has been arrested in New Zealand. Megaupload lawers are fighting for the rela January 25, 2012
- Mobile phones are always at risk of attacks - A few years ago nobody would have believed that mobile phones need protection from spyware as much as PC computers. But with introduction of the Smartphone Era and the ability to create, download and even edit applications for mobile phones, number of use January 5, 2012
- Be careful as holidays are very profitable season for scammers - The holidays season is just wonderful as it is all about giving and receiving, however it may be unpleasantly disturbed by falling in to a scammers' trap and having to deal with scam related problems. One of those traps – a holiday skin for your Facebook December 27, 2011
- Apple's iPhone 4 more vulnerable after update - Latest reports claim that Siri, a hit personal assistant from Apple which is available only in the iPhone 4S, is one of the most popular features that keeps the sales up. However the recent update made iPhone 4S more vulnerable to the hacker attacks. December 26, 2011
- Adobe Reader targeted again: Acrobat vulnerability - Adobe announced today that hackers are exploiting security hole in Adobe Reader and Acrobat. Malicious hackers are trying to use flaw that exists in Adobe Reader X (10.1.1) and its earliest version for Windows and Mac systems. December 7, 2011
- From „White hat“ Charlie Miller was turned to „Black hat“ - On Monday, Apple researcher Charlie Miller was punished for finding flaw in Apple's restrictions on code signing on iOS devices which would allow hackers to use applications sneaked into the Application Store to download and run unsigned code. November 9, 2011
- Damage after Halloween: new Facebook scam floats - It is not surprising that scammers exploit every bigger event of the world and Halloween wasn’t an exception as well. Facebook users are targeted again with a new scam. The fake message claims that a girl killed herself on Halloween after her father poste November 4, 2011
- Temporary remedy against Dugu - Microsoft released temporary patch for a critical Windows vulnerability. Dugu infection has already made manufacturers of industrial systems suffer because of serious malware. November 4, 2011
- After break hackers exploit Amy’s Winehouse death again - After the Amy’s Winehouse death there were many scams floating across the Internet that were exploiting music star’s death. However, after some peaceful time hackers abuse this news again. October 20, 2011
- Malware distribution tendencies 2011 - The main reason why Windows gets infected is the failure to fix third-party programs. About three to five years ago the basic traffic of malware to come was through the emails with infected links or rogue attachments. These days, hackers use malicious web September 30, 2011
- Flaws are patched with new Flash Player Update - Today Adobe released out-of-band software update which patches serious vulnerabilities in its Flash Player products. An update fixes versions of Flash that are suitable on Windows, Mac, Linux, Solaris and Android operating systems. September 22, 2011
- Phishing email has been found which caused RSA breach - In March, RSA Company said they have been hacked and suffered a breach and data loss following an "extremely sophisticated cyber attack." August 30, 2011
- Flaws have been detected in Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager - Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager has been found with several vulnerabilities. According to Secunia, this flaw may be exploited by hackers easily to control cross-site scripting and request counterfeiting attacks. August 12, 2011
- Patch Tuesday fixes 22 flaws - Microsoft has released 13 patches for 22 vulnerabilities. Two of 13 patches are rated a top ranking of critical on Microsoft‘s rating scale. These two are of the most dangerous and the rest of 13 are identified as second highest rating and moderate ones. August 11, 2011
- Recent tragedies are still exploited by scammers via Facebook - Bombing and shootings in Norway and Amy‘s Winehouse death are the most exploitable news by scammers nowadays. With the big peoples‘ interest in these tragedies cybercriminals seem to be very excited and try to trick computer users to click on supposedly l July 26, 2011
- How malware gets installed in your PCs and Macs? - Many people think that computers are infected by visiting websites or opening e-mails. Mac community believes that Windows are insecure by their nature. By their opinion with no support large numbers of computers are infected just by clicking on fraudulen June 23, 2011
- Update for deleting the MacDefender malware has been released - Great news for Mac OS users - Apple released a security update to Mac OS 10.6.7 that is able to detect and remove the malware which was currently attacking Mac OS users as a trojan horse masqueraded on Google image files. June 1, 2011
