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Written by Sjoeii
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Sunday, 15 August 2010 07:15 |
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Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content management solutions, announces that global market intelligence provider IDC has ranked the company among the Top 100 Packaged Software Vendors worldwide.
Each year, IDC surveys the leading vendors of packaged software to determine their individual proportion of market share by revenue. The results of the survey are published under the title “Worldwide Packaged Software Revenue by Top 100 Vendors”. The results of the 2009 survey and the forecast for the next five years have been published in the “Worldwide Software 2010–2014 Forecast Summary”. Kaspersky Lab ranks 78th on the list and is the only Russian company to be included in the rating.
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Last Updated on Sunday, 15 August 2010 07:17 |
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Written by Sjoeii
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Sunday, 15 August 2010 07:14 |
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TDSS is the most powerful and complex rootkit to date. This universal malware can hide its own presence and that of other malware on an infected system while offering enhanced opportunities. In order to penetrate computers, TDSS infects drivers; this ensures that it will be launched almost immediately the operating system is started. Consequently, it is extremely difficult to detect and remove this rootkit.
Kaspersky Lab has invested significant time and effort into solving the issues raised by TDSS. This article looks at the technologies implemented in TDSS, the way in which the rootkit spreads, and how cybercriminals profit from this malware.
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Written by Sjoeii
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Sunday, 15 August 2010 07:12 |
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Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content management solutions, announces that the first malicious program classified as a Trojan-SMS has been detected for smartphones running on Google’s Android operating system. Named Trojan-SMS.AndroidOS.FakePlayer.a, it has already infected a number of mobile devices.
The new malicious program penetrates smartphones running Android in the guise of a harmless media player application. Users are prompted to install a file of just over 13 KB with the standard Android extension .APK. Once installed on the phone, the Trojan uses the system to begin sending SMSs to premium rate numbers without the owner’s knowledge or consent, resulting in money passing from a user’s account to that of the cybercriminals.
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Last Updated on Sunday, 15 August 2010 07:13 |
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Written by Sjoeii
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Thursday, 22 July 2010 04:41 |
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Mozilla has shipped a mega patch for Firefox to fix a total of 16 security flaws that expose Web surfers to drive-by download, data theft and local bar spoofing attacks.
The latest Firefox 3.6.7 update includes fixes for nine "critical" issues that could be exploited to launch remote code execution attacks. Two of the 16 bugs are rated "high risk" while five carry a "moderate" severity rating.
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Written by Sjoeii
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Thursday, 22 July 2010 04:32 |
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In the first few months of 2009, security researchers began seeing signs of a new piece of malware that was somewhat baffling to them. It didn't act like other Trojans or rootkits and try to bury itself on an infected machine and try to do nasty stuff like deleting registry keys or copying the contents of the hard drive. Instead, this malware, which came to be called Gumblar, was about the business of stealing Web site credentials and compromising as many legitimate sites as possible, creating something entirely new: a botnet of infected Web servers that has highlighted the horrific state of Web application security and become the new model for Web-based malware.
http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/how-mass-sql-injection-attacks-have-become-epidemic-072110 |
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Last Updated on Thursday, 22 July 2010 04:42 |
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Written by Sjoeii
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Thursday, 22 July 2010 04:37 |
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Microsoft has released a FixIt tool for the unpatched LNK Windows shell vulnerability and also has updated its guidance on how to deal with the flaw. The company also said it is continuing to work on developing a patch for the vulnerability.
The FixIt tool that Microsoft published Tuesday mitigates the vulnerability by disabling the display of icons in the task bar and the Windows menu. It doesn't entirely patch the vulnerability, but it helps mitigate one of the attack vectors.
http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/microsoft-releases-fixit-tool-lnk-flaw-072110 |
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Written by Sjoeii
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Thursday, 22 July 2010 04:29 |
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Kaspersky Lab presents an article entitled Mass Defacements: The Tools and Tricks by David Jacoby, a Senior Security Researcher with the company’s Global Research & Analysis Team. During his research David identified over a hundred web servers that had been infected by ‘defacers’, including web servers belonging to some high-profile companies. These infections resulted in confidential data from sites, as well as information on how to infect them, being sold on the black market. The cybercriminals were also able to use the web servers to launch DDoS attacks or conduct spam mailings.
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http://www.kaspersky.com/news?id=207576137
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