No sooner did Microsoft make Windows 7 RC available for download, than pirated versions began to appear through Torrents and news groups. The only problem is that they are infected with malware Trojans aimed at recruiting the infected computer to a criminal...
Symantec saw a 265% increase in malware attacks in 2008 according to their Internet Security Report XIV published today. The figure was 1,656227, up from 624,627 in 2007 which was up from 140,690 in 2006. One of the most common forms of attack is to exploit...
We reported on February 24 th that PDF file could be infected and would crash Acrobat Reader and Acrobat. Adobe has now issued a patch for Adobe Reader 9 and Acrobat 9, while patches for versions 7 & 8 will be released by 18/3/9 and for reader 9.1...
Amid the glow of red faces, Kaspersky’s Roel Schouwenberg admitted that their database of 2500 customers email addresses and 25,000 authenticating codes located in the support part of usa.kaspersky.com had been hacked. He admitted that the site had been...
With the increase in malicious attacks on IT systems, especially virus attacks, it is vitally important to keep your clients security up-to-date. Web based e-mail such as Yahoo and Gmail is not scanned the way employees Exchange mail is. Consequently...
Google's analysis of spamming activities indicate that they have increased hundred and 50% in the last two months, as the spammers have now found alternative web hosts following November’s closing of McColo Corp. With security experts estimating that...