It Security need to be address by today organizations. This should start from the top down but in most cases IT Security start from the bottom and in most cases never reach the top. The blog on IT Security are to help everyone better...
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It Security need to be address by today organizations. This should start from the top down but in most cases IT Security start from the bottom and in most cases never reach the top. The blog on IT Security are to help everyone better understand how knowledge of the subject. The bad guys are working hard to gain access to your network and/or computer, we need to work at keeping them out.
Trojan.Gord is a Mozilla XUL application that will alter Firefox’s default XUL overlay configuration file. Trojan.Gord will redirect search results in the Firefox Web browser.
Type
Trojan
Sub-Type
Redirect
Aliases
OS Affected
Windows
Detected By
Symantec
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The competition among the modern society has become fiercer and fiercer, especially in the IT field. Do you feel the pressure? Maybe not everyone can feel it, but IT learners must feel it. Therefore, you'd better get more IT certifications to escort your career. It is suggested that Examkiller is the best helper to get your success of IT certification exam. Examkiller is the best website which offers the latest dumps for IT certification exams. If you are preparing Symantec 250-400 exam, I... Read Full Story
Mozilla on Tuesday issued an updated version of its Firefox web browser to fix several vulnerabilities. Firefox 3.5.6 closes a number of “critical” flaws, which could allow an attacker to crash a victim's browser or run arbitrary code on an affected computer. This is the first time Firefox has been updated for security since late October. Of the seven security bulletins released by Mozilla as part of the update, one listed as critical addresses several stability bugs in the browser engine... Read Full Story
Adobe
Adobe is investigating new reports that hackers are attacking a previously unknown bug in the latest version of the company’s Reader and Acrobat software.
“This afternoon, Adobe received reports of a vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.2 and earlier versions being exploited in the wild,” Adobe wrote in a post to its Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) blog Monday afternoon. “We are currently investigating this issue and assessing the risk to our customers... Read Full Story
Researchers say the groups behind two botnets have teamed up to distribute malware. The bot herders running the Avalanche and ZBot botnets are now working together to promote notorious banking Trojan Zeus.
The Zbot botnet is known for its massive spam campaigns that link to Zeus and Avalanche is known as a hot spot for phishing scams. Presumably the two groups decided that by working together they could increase their profits. The criminal groups behind the scheme are anonymous and little... Read Full Story
DNS and DNS servers have been pushed into the mainstream with Google’s announcement that they have released public DNS servers to speed up computer user access to the Internet. We have already given tips in the past how to benchmark DNS to find the fastest and most reliable one from all the public DNS that are offered by various organizations and companies.
While it is not difficulty to change the DNS servers in the operating system it does require some knowledge as to where they are... Read Full Story
DNS and DNS servers have been pushed into the mainstream with Google’s announcement that they have released public DNS servers to speed up computer user access to the Internet. We have already given tips in the past how to benchmark DNS to find the fastest and most reliable one from all the public DNS that are offered by various organizations and companies.
While it is not difficulty to change the DNS servers in the operating system it does require some knowledge as to where they are... Read Full Story
Virus Total offers a great service for users who want to check files for malicious code. The main benefit of using Virus Total over locally installed antivirus software is the multi-engine approach as it offers to scan files with dozens of different antivirus engines and databases.
The Virus Total service can be used on the website directly by uploading one file to the service or by use of the Virus Total software which recently has been updated to version 2.
It was previously only... Read Full Story
In an unusual move, Google announced Google Public DNS on Thursday, a new means by which users can utilize the Google DNS servers to access the Internet. Google has even added telephone support for those who choose to make the switch. For many, the DNS settings that lie at the heart of a user's router rarely need to be touched. When a user types in "www.extremetech.com," for example, the user's PC contacts the DNS server via the router and asks for the numerical IP address of the site... Read Full Story
Microsoft has released a new batch of security updates on this month’s Patch Tuesday which patch various security vulnerabilities in Microsoft software products. The vulnerabilities are affecting several popular Microsoft products including various Windows operating systems, Microsoft Internet Explorer and Microsoft Office.
Three of the vulnerabilities have a maximum severity rating of critical while the other three are rated as important. The vulnerability impact is either a remote code... Read Full Story
