Faulty McAfee update hits Windows XP machines

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...
Apache.org suffers attack, warns of password breach

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...
Latest Koobface Facebook campaign attracts users with erotic encounters

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...
New Trojan masquerades as Adobe update

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...
Face-off video: Thompson and Shostack on social networking, data privacy

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...
Most short links on Twitter safe, researcher finds

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...