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African countries have the safest Internet in the world | PL: 5  Category: General | Comments (0) 2010-08-30 08:05:51 African countries have the safest Internet in the world According to a report by the Internet security firm AVG 7 of the 10 safest countries in which to use the Internet are in Africa, with Sierra Leone rated the safest. Researchers of the security vendor made up a list of virus and malware attacks by country picked up by AVG security software, with data from more than 127 million computers in 144 countries to determine incidence rates of such attacks. Average incident rate for Sierra Leone was one attack for every 692 Web surfers. Sierra Leone...   Tags: AVG, cyber attack, internet, malware, online security, virus   Member: ecommerce-journal | 146 Snaps

200 Windows applications have a security bug that is easy to exploit by hackers | PL: 11  Category: Software | Comments (0) 2010-08-20 09:58:05 200 Windows applications have a security bug that is easy to exploit by hackers A security researcher Acros reported this week that nearly 200 Windows applications are vulnerable to remote code-execution attacks that exploit a bug in the way the programs load binary files for the Microsoft operating system. While the critical flaw was patched in Apple's iTunes media player for Windows and VMware Tools, for other applications it will be necessary to create an individual patches, said Mitja Kolsek, CEO of application security consultancy Acros Security. He supported the...   Tags: application flaw, cyber attack, hacker, security bug, vulnerability, Windows   Member: ecommerce-journal | 146 Snaps

Windows Help helps hackers get full control of your PC | PL: 10  Category: Software | Comments (0) 2010-06-14 08:47:08 Windows Help helps hackers get full control of your PC Older versions of Windows are under risk of a new attack that would allow hackers to take remote control of a user’s PC. According to an advisory published Wednesday by researcher Tavis Ormandy the vulnerability is in the Windows Help and Support Center, a feature that provides users with online technical support. Hackers can exploit the bug by embedding commands in web addresses that activate the feature's remote assistance tool, which allows administrators to execute commands over the...   Tags: bug, cyber attack, hacker, vulnerability, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP   Member: ecommerce-journal | 146 Snaps

New cyber attack, all browsers vulnerable: open tabs lead you to identity theft | PL: 17  Category: Software | Comments (0) 2010-05-27 07:52:34 New cyber attack, all browsers vulnerable: open tabs lead you to identity theft This week a Firefox creative lead Aza Raskin reported a new form of attack dubbed “tabnapping” that allows hackers to easily lure users into providing their passwords by secretly changing already-open browser tabs. It was said that all major browsers on Windows and Mac OS X are vulnerable to this kind of attack. Raskin pictured the scenario of the attack: people often leave many tabs open for long periods which makes the hacking task for the cyber crooks simple. After a user visits a...   Tags: cyber attack, Firefox, hacker, Mozilla, tabnapping, web browser   Member: ecommerce-journal | 146 Snaps

Turn off Aero on your Windows 7, otherwise be infected with malware | PL: 16  Category: Software | Comments (0) 2010-05-20 08:02:45 Turn off Aero on your Windows 7, otherwise be infected with malware Users of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 were warned this week by Microsoft on the bug in the operating system that allows hackers to exploit it for installing malware. The vulnerability in the Canonical Display Driver may be exploited to cause vulnerable machines only to reboot, Microsoft spokesman Jerry Bryant said in a blog post. However, it can also be abused for unseen malware installation though at first attackers would have to bypass memory randomization protections baked in to...   Tags: Aero theme, cyber attack, hacker, malware, vulnerability, Windows 7   Member: ecommerce-journal | 146 Snaps

How security experts fend off users from protecting against online thre | PL: 27  Category: General | Comments (0) 2010-02-22 08:24:36 How security experts fend off users from protecting against online threats Internet security experts who met this week to work out how to protect computer users from the growing problem of online theft, fraud, vandalism, abuse and espionage, warned that using computer jargon by the industry players leads to that users are discouraged from learning how to protect themselves against different kind of scams on the web. The language used by security researchers is usually treated as gobbledegook and makes most of online subscribers worldwide think that security is an...   Tags: cyber attack, Internet security, malware, online fraud, online security, scam, virus   Member: ecommerce-journal | 146 Snaps

A hacked Twitter account may cost as much as $1,000 | PL: 32  Category: Software | Comments (0) 2010-02-01 08:55:40 A hacked Twitter account may cost as much as $1,000 Researchers at Kaspersky Lab report that hacked accounts of Twitter and other services are being sold online for hundreds of dollars. Big revenues made on stolen data make hacking programs and viruses very popular among cyber criminals. According to Kaspersky Researcher Dmitry Bestuzhev there were Gmail accounts for sale on Russian hacker forums, (asking price 2,500 roubles, or $82) RapidShare accounts going for $5 per month, as well as Skype, instant messaging and Facebook credentials on...   Tags: cyber attack, Facebook, hacker, malware, social network, stolen account, tweets, Twitter, virus   Member: ecommerce-journal | 146 Snaps

Internet Explorer to be patched, no more Gmail like attacks | PL: 30  Category: Software | Comments (0) 2010-01-22 07:11:27 Internet Explorer to be patched, no more Gmail like attacks In light of the latest events that involved the attack against Google and a number of other websites Microsoft Corp announced that it will release a patch to fix the old version of its Internet Explorer browser that was exploited by the hackers in China. According to Jerry Bryant, senior security program manager at Microsoft, the patch 'addresses the vulnerability related to recent attacks against Google and a small subset of corporations.” 'Once applied, customers are protected...   Tags: cyber attack, Gmail, hacker, Internet Explorer, Microsoft, vulnerability, web browser   Member: ecommerce-journal | 146 Snaps