New research has found attackers are abusing Adobe System’s ActionScript programming language to dodge anti-malware defenses.
ActionScript is the programming language of the Adobe Flash platform. In a recap of the threat landscape for the first six months of 2010, M86 Security reported observing attackers combining JavaScript with ActionScript in a bid to obfuscate malicious code.
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Microsoft has signed a deal to open its Windows 7 source code up to the Russian intelligence services.
Russian publication Vedomosti reported on Wednesday that Microsoft had also given the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) access to Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft Office 2010 and Microsoft SQL Server source code, with hopes of improving Microsoft [...]
The rising star that is Twitter broke a new record last week by becoming the first social networking site to be ruled against by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The ruling came about when numerous accounts were hacked and bogus tweets issued, the most spectacular of which involved the then president-elect Barack Obama offering [...]
One of the biggest draws of an Android device for many people is the fact that they can be customized extensively with hacks and user-created ROMs. Recently, however, Motorola has been making life difficult for Android hackers, using a new kind of bootloader on their devices like the Milestone and upcoming DROID X. [...]
Internet security outfit Sophos has published a report listing the top 12 countries from which spam is sent.
According to the figures, the United Kingdom has shot up from ninth place to fourth, accounting for 4.6 per cent of the world’s spam. The USA is responsible for 15.2 per cent of global spam – an [...]
Cybersecurity responses to attacks from malicious networks must involve multiple stakeholders and have the support of the right legal frameworks, according to government officials.
Sharing some lessons learnt from a widely publicized wave of cyberattacks on Estonia in May 2007 during a keynote here Tuesday at the Regional Collaboration in Cyber Security Conference, Jaak Aaviksoo noted [...]
Hackers are claiming online they can break into computer systems belonging to universities and certification institutes and change the scores of students.
An online search in Chinese of "hackers editing scores" results in dozens of pages of hits. The hackers say they can change students’ scores for a price – and charge between a few thousand [...]
Trend Micro security researchers caution that a latest version of the notorious Koobface worm is circulating on Facebook through Direct Messages (DMs). The spam entices users towards a harmful site by informing them that someone has posted their video on YouTube.
The company states that as common with these kinds of harmful attacks, the English used [...]
ONE OF THE RUSSIAN SPIES recently uncovered in the farcical cold war throwback was for a time a Microsoft employee.
According to the Washington Post, Alexey Karetnikov was working at the Microsoft campus outside Seattle, Washington. He is the 12th person to have his collar felt on allegations of spying but the US authorities could only [...]
It appears that Apple’s silence on the iPhone 4 issues will come to an end later this week.
Apple is planning to hold a press conference at 10 a.m. in Cupertino, Calif., on Friday to discuss the iPhone 4, according to CNET blogger Jim Dalrymple on his personal blog, The Loop. No other details were provided.
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NOTHING personal, but I don’t really want to be your online friend. I’m sorry, I’m sure you are very nice. It’s not you, it’s me: I’m feeling grumpy and a tad antisocial, so perhaps we are all better off.
And that goes for you too, annoying ex-classmate who just "friended" me on Facebook. Get lost, media-type [...]
Finjan has sued five rival security companies, including Symantec and McAfee, claiming it holds crucial patents used by popular antivirus products and security services.
The lawsuit was filed Monday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware. Also named are Webroot Software, Websense and Sophos.
Finjan alleges that flagship products from these companies violate two [...]
Consumer Reports magazine said on Wednesday that Apple iPhone 4 owners can eliminate reception problems by enclosing their phones in the "Bumper" case Apple sells.
The findings could presage a decision by Apple to offer iPhone 4 owners a free Bumper, as the publication confirmed yesterday that it has been in contact with Apple over its [...]