BlackBerry Hacked via Drive-By Download at Pwn2Own !

BlackBerry OS fell during the second day of the Pwn2Own hacking competition as a result of a drive-by download attack that chained together several exploits. The trio that managed to hack RIM's mobile operating system, Vincenzo Iozzo, Willem Pinckaers and Ralf Philipp Weinmann, exploited two...

Apple Safari and Internet Explorer 8 Go Down at Pwn2Own, iPhone Up Next

VANCOUVER–On the first day of the Pwn2Own contest here, contestants were able to take down both Safari on Mac OS X and Internet Explorer 8 on Windows 7. None of the researchers decided to try their hand against Google Chrome, however, so that browser was the only one still standing after day one...

BBC music websites get hacked !

THE BBC'S MUSIC WEBSITES have been hacked to stream malware using drive-by downloads for anyone browsing the infected webpages. Hackers set the drive-by malware up at the BBC's 6 Music website and the BBC 1Xtra radio station website. Researchers at the insecurity outfit Websense found the exploit...

BBC Sites Serving Malware

The websites of the BBC’s 6 music and 1Xtra radio stations have been injected with a malicious iframe and are redirecting users to a site serving up malware according to a Websense report Tuesday. The iframe, on both the BBC 6 music and 1Xtra webpages, is loading code from a malicious website fro...

Major Ad Networks Found Serving Malicious Ads

Two major online ad networks–DoubleClick and MSN–were serving malware via drive-by download exploits over the last week, experts say, after a group of attackers was able to trick the networks into displaying their ads by impersonating an online advertising provider. The scheme involved a group of...

6) (Anti) social networking

Social networks like Facebook and Twitter are fabulous platforms for sharing information and news. Retailers of all stripes have tapped into this and are using them to get the word out – virally – about discounts, sales and in-store events. Unfortunately, mechanisms for vetting online reputation...

Set your Web browsers to "stun"…it's the online holiday shopping season. Here are ten tips for surviving it without getting yourself p4wn3d

Cyber Monday is billed as the biggest online shopping day of the year, with deep discounts from online merchants. But the truth is that your online shopping isn’t anywhere near done now that its passed, any more than your in store shopping is done now that the 3:00 AM Black Friday door buster...

Web-Based Malware Doubles from 2009, Likely to Persist in 2011

There’s been a significant uptick in Web-based malware, with infections nearly double those from this time last year, and predictions are that Web based attacks will get worse before they get better. In their Q3 Malware Update, security firm Dasient estimated there were over 1.5 million malicious...

Infected Web sites double in 2010 : A Report

The number of Web sites infected with malware has doubled from a year ago to more than 1.2 million, according to a study released today by Internet security company Dasient. Not only are social-media sites getting targeted, but sites of larger government agencies increasingly are hit, including t...

Drive-By Downloads Still Running Wild

For some time now, the browser has been the most dangerous piece of software on the Web, and to hear researchers tell it, the climate it likely to get far worse before it gets any better. The attack landscape has shifted in a lot of important ways in the last few years, but none of the changes ha...

Amnesty International Site Found Hosting Malware, IE Zero Day

Researchers at security firm Websense have found that Amnesty International’s Hong Kong site, amnesty.org.hk, is serving up a cocktail of malware that includes last week’s Internet Explorer 0-day. Visitors to the human rights organization’s site operating versions 6 and 7 of IE are being targeted...

New Bug in Internet Explorer Used in Targeted Attacks

There’s a new flaw in all of the current versions of Internet Explorer that is being used in some targeted attacks right now. Microsoft has confirmed the bug and said it is working on a fix, but has no timeline for the patch release yet. The company did not rule out an emergency out-of-band patch...

Mozilla Confirms Critical Firefox Bug, Readies Fix

Mozilla is working on a patch for the recently disclosed critical bug in Firefox that has been exploited on at least one prominent Web site this week. The vulnerability in Firefox is being used by attackers in drive-by download attacks to install malware on victims’ machines. Mozilla’s security...

Inside Google's Anti-Malware Operation

TORONTO–A Google malware researcher gave a rare peek inside the company’s massive anti-malware and anti-phishing efforts at the SecTor conference here, and the data that the company has gathered shows that the attackers who make it their business to infect sites and exploit users are adapting the...

Report: More Than 1 Million Web Sites Serving Malware in Q2

Web anti malware firm Dasient has published data claiming that more than 1 million Web sites were compromised in the second quarter, 2010 – a sharp increase. More than one million Web domains were infected with malicious code in the second quarter of 2010 – around one percent of all active Web...

Mozilla Patches Firefox DLL Load Hijacking Bug

Mozilla has joined Apple in being among the first to fix the DLL load hijacking attack vector that continues to haunt hundreds of Windows applications. The open-source group released Firefox 3.6.9 with patches for a total of 15 vulnerabilities 11 rated critical, including the publicly known DLL...

Apple Plugs Safari Drive-by Download Security Holes

Apple has shipped Safari 5.0.2 and Safari 4.1.2 with patches for three gaping holes that expose Web surfers to drive-by download attacks. The browse-and-you’re-hacked vulnerabilities affect both Windows and Mac users, Apple warned in an advisory. One of the three vulnerabilities is the DLL load...

Apple Readies Patch for Jailbreakme.com Vulnerability

USA Today’s Byron Acohido is reporting that Apple plans to rush out a patch for the drive-by download flaw that allows jailbreaking if an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch device simply surfs to a web site. “The patch is completed, Apple spokeswoman Natalie Kerris said in an interview. But Kerris said o...

MS Patch Tuesday: Critical IE, Office Patches Coming

Microsoft is planning a very busy Patch Tuesday this month: 14 bulletins with patches for 34 vulnerabilities in Windows, Microsoft Office, Internet Explorer, SQL and Silverlight. According to Microsoft’s advance notice for the August batch of patches, eight of the bulletins carry a “critical”...

Two Unpatched Flaws Show Up in Apple iOS

The technique that the Jailbreakme.com Web site is using to bypass the iPhone’s security mechanisms and enable users to run unapproved apps on their phones involves exploiting two separate vulnerabilities. One of the vulnerabilities is a memory-corruption flaw that affects the way that Apple’s...