Proofpoint Protection Server 5.5.5 Cross Site Scripting

Sense of Security - Security Advisory - SOS-11-005 Release Date. 03-May-2011 Last Update. - Vendor Notification Date. 28-Apr-2011 Product. Proofpoint Protection Server Platform. Appliance Affected versions. 5.5.5 verified, and possibly others Severity Rating. Medium Impact. Cookie/credential thef...

FBI vs Coreflood botnet

FBI vs Coreflood botnet The FBI's unprecedented effort to behead the Coreflood botnet—comprised of millions of hacked Windows machines—appears to be working, at least for now. The bureau has tracked a dramatic decline in the number of pings from the botnet since the takedown operation began earli...

Multiple Vendor Malformed ZIP Archive Anti-virus Detection Bypass

Anti-virus products provide protection against dangerous content such as viruses, trojans, worms and other destructive programs. A non-privileged code execution vulnerability has been reported in the way multiple anti-virus products scan ZIP archive files. The vulnerability is due to ANSI escape...

MS11-025: Description of the security update for Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package: April 12, 2011

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MS11-032: Vulnerability in the OpenType Compact Font Format (CFF) driver could allow remote code execution: April 12, 2011

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Experts: Justin Bieber Virus Spotted…But Sputtering

Anti virus experts are warning the public about a new virus that tempts unwitting Windows users with the promise of a video of teen heart throb Justin Bieber. But the virus appears to be having trouble attracting the interest of potential victims. The malware, named Trojan.Bieber.FraudPack was...

NOD32 Anti-Virus ARJ Archive Handling Buffer Overflow (CVE-2005-2903)

The Eset NOD32 anti-virus AV product line has the ability to decompress files in numerous archive formats for virus scanning. One such supported archive format is the ARJ format. A buffer overflow vulnerability has been reported in Eset's NOD32 Anti-Virus products. The flaw is triggered when...

Virus Attacks on Canadian Computer System

Recently, Director of Information Technology, Per Kristensen stated that, a new type of the Qakbot virus appeared globally on March 15, 2011 and was observed in PCs in Nanaimo Canada at noon on March 16, 2011, as reported by Bclocal News on March 12, 2011. To safeguard important information about...

Symantec LiveUpdate Administrator HTML injection vulnerability-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Symantec LiveUpdate is the Symantec for automatically updating Symantec virus definitions and products of technology. LiveUpdate client with each Symantec product and installed automatically. LiveUpdate periodically connect to the LiveUpdate server to check the application on the computer to...

The Decline and Fall of Slammer?

Me and Slammer Helkern go back a long way… to 25 January 2003 to be precise. It was a baptism of fire for me in my new role as a virus analyst at Kaspersky Lab. It was a weekend and I was alone, in charge of monitoring the incoming flow of suspicious files. I had barely been at the company a mont...

Step 1: Understand The Problem

The first step in dealing with a scareware is to understand what has just happened to your computer. Victims often ignore or miss the signs of a rogue AV infection, says Nicolas Brulez, a senior malware researcher at Kaspersky Lab. This is especially true with scareware, which tries to fool you...

40th anniversary of the computer virus !

This year marks the 40th anniversary of Creeper, the world's first computer virus. From Creeper to Stuxnet, the last four decades saw the number of malware instances boom from 1,300 in 1990, to 50,000 in 2000, to over 200 million in 2010. Besides sheer quantity, viruses, which were originally use...

F-Secure Anti-Virus Detection and Status

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[SECURITY] Fedora 14 Update: clamav-0.97-1400.fc14

Clam AntiVirus is an anti-virus toolkit for UNIX. The main purpose of this software is the integration with mail servers attachment scanning. The package provides a flexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon, a command line scanner, and a tool for automatic updating via Internet. The programs ar...

[SECURITY] Fedora 13 Update: clamav-0.97-1300.fc13

Clam AntiVirus is an anti-virus toolkit for UNIX. The main purpose of this software is the integration with mail servers attachment scanning. The package provides a flexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon, a command line scanner, and a tool for automatic updating via Internet. The programs ar...

Iran Welcomes Hackers Who Work For Islamic Republic !

An official with Iran's Revolutionary Guard has said that Iran welcomes hackers who are willing to work for the Islamic Republic. "Regarding the cyber issue, we welcome the presence of those hackers who are willing to work for the goals of the Islamic Republic with good will and revolutionary...

Virus Alert : Tweet Viewer Worm Crawling Around Twitter !

Be careful what you click on when you're using Twitter, because there is a "Tweet Viewer" worm afoot. Under the guise of revealing who's been visiting your Twitter profile, when you click on its link it asks for your Twitter authorization, and then tweets that same message to more unsuspecting...

Cyber Attacks Hit Nearly 40 South Korean websites !

According to a new report, 40 South Korean websites came under a cyber crime attack by a computer virus, including the presidential Blue House, South Korea's biggest bank , a major online auction house, the Foreign Ministry, the two largest search engines in the country and Korean military websit...

Microsoft Forefront Endpoint Protection / System Center Endpoint Protection / Anti-malware Client Detection and Status

Microsoft Forefront Endpoint Protection, or another antimalware product from Microsoft, is installed on the remote host. However, there is a problem with the installation; either its services are not running or its engine and/or virus definitions are out of date. C Tenable Network Security, Inc...

Phishing Sites Increasingly Targeting University Students

In February, the developing trend of phishing websites targeting universities in the U.S. and the U.K. became increasingly commonplace, and Symantec researchers isolated three exemplative cases. The first targeted a University in the U.K. This phishing attack came via email, and purported that...