AVG cries wolf at Adobe Reader

More dodgy upgrade madness A faulty signature update from GRISoft published this week meant that its popular AVG anti-virus package falsely warned versions of Adobe Reader were infected with a Trojan.… Read more…

 

Pinch-bum malware creates titters

Cheeky Trojan drifts onto the net The general dumbing down of the virus creation process along with attempts by for-profit hackers to tie up the resources of security firms mean that anti-virus sofware vendors are beginning to need three alphabetical letters for some Trojan families.… Read more…

 

USAJobs.gov Hit By Attack On Monster.com

USAJobs, the official job search site for the federal government, said Wednesday that more than 146,000 users had their account information stolen as a result of an attack on job search giant Monster.com earlier this month. In mid August, attackers compromised Monster.com accounts gaining access to the company’s resume database. With the help of a [...]

 

Storm Worm descends on Blogger.com

‘Dude what if your wife finds this’ Miscreants behind the Storm Worm have begun attacking Blogger, littering hundreds of pages with titillating messages designed to trick visitors into clicking on poisonous links.… Read more…

 

Porn & Spyware Found on Govt. and School Sites

It would great if the compromised Web servers I wrote about last week at Lawrence Livermore National Labs were an aberration, but sadly they are not. Conducting a simple Google search for adult-themed search terms found in “.gov” domains produces some very interesting results, including pages serving up adult videos along with a generous helping [...]

 
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