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.
October 2009 saw the biggest Microsoft security update - both in terms of breadth and depth of patches delivered and bugs fixed. However, we have seen three updates to this October Security update over the past few weeks. On October 14, Microsoft offered up a workaround for a problem with MS09-056, then corrected several errors in MS09-062 last week. The company also revised an August update, MS09-043, last week to correct a patch-detection error that may have left some corporate users who... Read Full Story
The most important thing which most of the system users are skeptic about is, whether the free antivirus software is better or the paid ones? As a matter of fact, some of the vendors offer free trial versions but paid full versions; some may provide you even full versions free of cost; and various other will provide you full antivirus software for some bucks. Here arises a heap of questions. Which product should be bought and which not? Which one is the efficient and best among hundreds of... Read Full Story
System Fighter is a rogue antispyware application and is not a helpful computer application like the name suggests. System Fighter or SystemFighter will try everything that it can in order to try and convince you that you have computer threats running on your computer. You need to be aware of the factor that everything related to System Fighter is actually one big scam which has been created in order to try and obtain your money and invade your privacy.
Do not believe any system scans... Read Full Story
ActiveX vulnerabilities have posed a security challenge for some time, and they're likely to be a challenge for quite some time to come. Look at examples such as Microsoft's patches this summer, which included a fix for Internet Explorer (MS-09034) and another (MS-09035) for Visual Studio 2005 and 2008. These updates were released to protect users from a security hole in technology employed by developers to create powerful web-based application elements. More specifically, the flaws resided... Read Full Story
The number of phishing URLs has reached a record high during the second quarter of 2009, according to internet fraud and brand-protection vendor MarkMonitor.More than 150,000 phishing URLs were established during the second quarter of 2009, surpassing previous record highs set during the first quarter of 2007, according to MarkMonitor's Brandjacking Index report for summer 2009, released Monday. Typically there is a gradual uptick in the number of phishing URLs from month to month, Fred... Read Full Story
Apple on Wednesday issued updates for the iPhone, iPod touch and QuickTime video player to address numerous security vulnerabilities, some of which could enable an attacker to execute arbitrary code. The newest versions – iPhone OS 3.1, iPhone OS 3.1.1 for iPod touch, and QuickTime 7.6.4 – fix 10 security issues in the iPod touch and iPhone and four vulnerabilities in Windows and Mac versions of QuickTime. But, one added security feature for the iPhone and iPod touch, an anti-phishing... Read Full Story
The Mozilla Firefox browser has just received an update, and you should probably download it if you want to protect your computer from nearly a dozen critical vulnerabilities.
Firefox 3.5.4, released earlier this morning, is being called a security and stability update. It doesn’t add new features, but instead directly deals with Firefox stability issues, fixes a few bugs (i.e. the ability to re-submit crash reports), and most importantly, patches up a group of security vulnerabilities... Read Full Story
The Firefox browser has been updated for four security flaws, three of which were rated as “critical,” according to Mozilla. “Mozilla has released a security advisory to address multiple vulnerabilities,” an advisory from US-CERT said. “These vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code, mislead users by spoofing a URL, or cause a denial-of-service.”Another update from Mozilla addressed problems in an older version of Firefox (3.0.14).In a post on the Mozilla blog, Nicole... Read Full Story
Phishing has drastically declined as attackers have started to focus their efforts on malware, an easier and more effective tactic that yields the same net gain, according to IBM. Throughout 2008, phishing attacks were present in .5 percent of all spam email, but during the first half of 2009 they dropped down to .1 percent, according to IBM's mid-year security report, put out by the company's X-Force research and development team. And during the same time frame, the number of new malicious... Read Full Story
From: Help Net Security
Facebook users should be on the lookout for an email threat that is posing as a message from Facebook administrators. The message contains both a phishing scam and a notorious “banking Trojan” virus.
A link within the spam email takes users to a spoofed Facebook login page requesting the user’s Facebook account information. After entering their credentials, users are then prompted to download “updatetool.exe” which is a Zbot Trojan variant.
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