Apple’s security 10 years behind Microsoft’s?
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Researchers say that infected WordPress sites were the initial attack vector for the Flashback Trojan horse program. Anywhere from 30,000 to 100,000 sites are thought to have been infected during February and early March with 85 percent of the infected machines located in the U.S. According to...
This snippet from SANS NewsBites Vol. 13, No. 74, 16 September 2011:
Researchers have detected a rootkit that targets the BIOS, Master Boot Record (MBR), the kernel, and files of PCs. It has been at least four years since malware that focuses on BIOS has been found. Trojan.Mebromi adds...
Got an interesting email this morning purportedly from "alerts@federalreserve.gov" with "Your Wire fund transfer" as the subject. Here's a screen shot:
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I can't believe that a somewhat savvy friend of mine asked me about this message. He was actually considering opening it. Some people will fall for anything. The first thing is that this message is very poorly written. Anyway, please inform your family and clients that this is bogus and contains a...
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You usually see this around tax season, but it seems the cyber-crooks have figured out that fear of the IRS is an evergreen topic.
US-CERT is aware of public reports of malicious code circulating via spam email messages related to the...
