Study Shows Google Better than Bing at Filtering Malicious Web Sites

A German security company spent 18 months analyzing malware among millions of Web sites ranked by the world’s most popular search engines and concluded Google was safer than Bing. More than half of the 40 million Web sites analyzed by the AV-Test Institute in Magdeburg, Germany were provided...

New E-Banking Trojans Target Android Users

The security firm Trusteer reports that new Web-based attacks are targeting Android smartphone users in a campaign to circumvent two-factor sign-on features used by many banks to protect account holders. Writing on the Trusteer blog on Tuesday, CTO Amit Klein of Trusteer said that researchers the...

Step 6: Update and Patch

With your machine disinfected, take a few moments to update your operating system software and any third party applications to their latest and most secure version. Rogue antivirus and scareware programs are usually delivered as drive by downloads spawned by malicious Web sites. These leverage...

SEO Poisoned Sites Still Slipping By Google

Attacks that use search engine optimization to push malicious pages into the top rankings on search engine results are on the rise in 2011, but new research from zScaler suggests that efforts to identify and block the pages are paying meager dividends. A blog post by Web security firm zScaler not...

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0.1 - DHTML Object Race Condition Memory Corruption

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0.1 - DHTML Object Race Condition Memory Corruption source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13120/info A vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer may allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code in the context of users visiting malicious Web sites. This iss...

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0.1 - DHTML Object Race Condition Memory Corruption

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13120/info A vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer may allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code in the context of users visiting malicious Web sites. This issue presents itself the affected application attempts to process certain script...

CVE-2005-0585

Firefox before 1.0.1 and Mozilla before 1.7.6 truncates long sub-domains or paths for display, which may allow remote malicious web sites to spoof legitimate sites and facilitate phishing attacks...

Security Bulletin MS01-010

---------------------------------------------------------------------- Title: Patch Available for "Windows Media Player Skins File Download" Vulnerability Date: February 14, 2001 Software: Windows Media Player 7 Impact: Run arbitrary code Bulletin: MS01-010 Microsoft encourages customers to...

Microsoft Internet Explorer 45 - DHTML Edit ActiveX Control File Stealing Cross Frame Access

Microsoft Internet Explorer 45 - DHTML Edit ActiveX Control File Stealing Cross Frame Access source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/116/info Vulnerabilities in an ActiveX control distributed with Internet Explorer 5 and available for Internet Explorer 4 allow malicous web sites to steal local...