Mar 31
Saturday, March 31st, 2007
The rapid evolution of banker Trojans is largely due to the use of additional security measures by financial institutions, such as the virtual keyboards now used to prevent traditional keyloggers recording users’ keystrokes. Banker Trojans designed to steal financial information are evolving rapidly. One recent example, the StealAll.A Trojan, injects a DLL in the Internet browser to steal data users enter in online forms.
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Mar 31
Saturday, March 31st, 2007
Cisco has patched its Unified CallManager and Presence Server software to fix vulnerabilities that could allow DoS attacks. In an advisory released Wednesday, the networking giant said CallManager versions 3.3, 4.1, 4.2 and 5.0, in addition to Presence Server version 1.0, are affected by the flaws. The most severe of the five vulnerabilities was rated 4.7 out of 10 by Cisco’s vulnerability scoring system.
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Mar 31
Saturday, March 31st, 2007
Keyloggers pose more risk to business and home PC users than any other method used for committing cyber crimes, according to a report by security vendor Kaspersky Lab. The company has witnessed more than a 500 per cent increase between January 2003 and July 2006. The Kaspersky Lab database currently contains records for more than 300 families of keyloggers – and this number does not include keyloggers that are just one component of compound threats, in which the spy component provides additional functionality.
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