Posted: March 12th, 2009 | Tags: Cybercrime, Hackers, Internet | No Comments »
The United States and Lithuania have signed a bilateral agreement which will facilitate prosecution of financial criminals, computer hackers and extremists.
The Minister for Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Vigaudas Ushatskas and US state secretary Hillari Clinton have exchanged reports of ratification documents on contracts between the USA and EU about mutual legal aid and an extradition. It is expected that other 26 European Union countries will shortly follow the example of Lithuania.
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Posted: March 10th, 2009 | Tags: Spyware | No Comments »
According to the statistics received by Panda Security, the harmful software intended for theft of the financial and personal information, is present on each 100-th computer connected to the Internet.
The report is made on the basis of the analysis of the data collected by free on-line antivirus ActiveScan. From 67 million the personal computers which have been checked up by means ActiveScan in last year, spyware and trojans have been detected on approximately 1 % of computers. If to consider, that worldwide quantity of the personal computers connected to the Network, makes nearby 1 billion - it means that 10 million of computers may be infected.
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Posted: March 6th, 2009 | Tags: Microsoft, Patches | No Comments »
Forthcoming Tuesday, on March, 10th, Microsoft corporation plans to release the next monthly portion of patches for the software products.
As it is informed in the prior notification, next week three bulletins with the description of dangerous “holes” in Windows operating systems of various versions will be published. At least one of found out vulnerabilities has received the status “critical” and, hence, can be used malefactors for penetration on the remote computer and performance on it of any operations. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: March 3rd, 2009 | Tags: Hackers | No Comments »
The British hacker Gary McKinnon has lost a final round of fight with extradition threat to the United States.
The criminal prosecution service of Great Britain has refused to deal with him under local laws.
Gary McKinnon, the 42-year-old inhabitant of small town Wood Green to the north from London, can be condemned for seventy years of the American prison if its fault in breaking of military computer networks of the USA is proved. Supporters of the hacker have reached the prime minister of Great Britain Gordon Brown with the request to judge McKinnon under the British laws.
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Posted: February 27th, 2009 | Tags: Security holes, Vulnerabilities | No Comments »
Adobe Systems has released the updated version of a flash-player for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux operating systems.
Several vulnerabilities of Flash Player v.10.0.22.87, which can be used by malefactors for the purpose of control capture over the computer of a victim, are removed. They could be also used for organisations of DoS-attacks and so forth the Greatest danger are represented by the hole connected with the buffer overflow error: by means of the file generated in special way in format SWF (Shockwave Flash) cybercriminals could execute any program code with privileges of the current user on the remote computer.
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Posted: February 25th, 2009 | Tags: Microsoft, Security holes, Vulnerabilities | No Comments »
Experts in security issues from Symantec company warn about presence of dangerous vulnerability in Microsoft Excel of recent versions, the patch for which does not exist now.
Detected “hole” theoretically allows malefactors to receive unauthorized access to the computer of a victim and to execute any harmful code on it . For the organisation of the attack it is necessary to force user to open the document generated in special way in .xls format. Such file, for example, can be placed on web page or sent by e-mail.
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Posted: February 24th, 2009 | Tags: Security holes, Vulnerabilities | No Comments »
Experts from the several companies specialising on questions of computer security, warn about frequent cases of attacks through a “hole” in software products of Adobe Systems.
The vulnerability theoretically allows to take a complete control over the computer of a victim. For attack implementation it is necessary to force user to open the file generated in special way created with application of the standard of compression JBIG.
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Posted: February 20th, 2009 | Tags: Fake antivirus, Rogue | No Comments »
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Posted: February 20th, 2009 | Tags: Malware, Sality.AO, Virus | No Comments »
PandaLabs experts warns about growth of number of infections by virus Sality. AO and its modifications.
Malicious program Sality.AO combines dangerous infectious technologies of old viruses with the new technologies routed on reception of financial benefit by roguish way. After penetration on computer Sality.AO uses special methods of hiding, complicating detection of the malware program. So, for example, the virus adds it’s code into empty areas of files found on the infected computer.
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Posted: February 18th, 2009 | Tags: Security holes, Vulnerabilities | No Comments »
Computer security experts from Trend Micro warn about a new wave of the hacker’s attacks aimed at Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 users.
As it is informed, this time cybercriminals maintain a security hole in the seventh version IE a patch for which corporation Microsoft has let out last week. The problem is related to an error arising in a browser at attempt of access to earlier remote objects. “Hole” theoretically allows malefactors to grasp a complete control over the personal computer of a victim.
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