Faulty McAfee update hits Windows XP machines
Profile: Marcia Savage
A flawed McAfee antivirus update caused Windows XP computers to lose network access and continuously reboot Wednesday. The faulty update caused widespread problems for organizations across the country, including law...
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Apache.org suffers attack, warns of password breach
Profile: Robert Westervelt
Software foundation warns users to change passwords as targeted cross-site scripting, brute force attacks penetrate Apache servers. The Apache Software Foundation warned Tuesday that its infrastructure hosting issue-tracking software suffered a direct, targeted attack putting...
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Latest Koobface Facebook campaign attracts users with erotic encounters
Profile: Robert Westervelt
There are no hidden cameras behind that link, only a malicious website, researchers at ESET say. Researchers at security vendor ESET LLC have discovered a quickly spreading Koobface Facebook campaign that is tripping up users with the allure of “erotic...
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New Trojan masquerades as Adobe update
Profile: Robert Westervelt
If victims are tricked, the Trojan downloads other malicious files designed to enable attackers to remotely steal data. TrendLabs engineers have discovered a new trick that uses a phony Adobe update to install a Trojan on victim’s machines. An unsuspecting victim can fall...
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Face-off video: Thompson and Shostack on social networking, data privacy
Profile: Eric Parizo
In case you missed it on the SearchSecurity.com home page this week, please check out the first in our latest series of face-off videos, featuring security industry luminaries Hugh Thompson, founder of People Security, and Adam Shostack, author of...
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Most short links on Twitter safe, researcher finds
Profile: ITKE
Less than 1% of shortened URLS on Twitter are malicious. Security researchers at Zscaler Inc. scanned 1.3 million shortened URLs posted on Twitter, and discovered that less than 1% (773) of those links led to malicious pages. The security firm’s analysis was conducted...
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