IT Security

CAN ADOBE BEAT BACK THE HACKERS? For years, Adobe Systems has occupied a quiet corner of the personal-computer industry. Photographers and designers use its software to clean up photos and set up Web sites. Workers everywhere trade electronic documents formatted with Adobe's programs, often without knowing the company behind the software. Now Adobe is attracting the unwanted attention of hackers--and security experts are concerned the company isn't doing enough to repel assaults. So far this year, Adobe has released nine security updates for the current version of its Acrobat Reader software, up from four in 2008, says Moscow security firm Kaspersky Lab. Adobe appears ... Read Full Story

Backdoor.Bapkri is a Trojan that will allow the author to gain control of the victims computer. Backdoor.Bapkri is a malevolent Dynamic Link Library (.dll) files that encrypt data to conceal itself from security programs. Type Trojan Sub-Type BackDoor Aliases OS Affected Windows Detected By Symantec How to Remove Backdoor.Bapkri Manually 1. Connect to Internet and Update your Antivirus Program 2. Reboot computer in Safe Mode - Before the Windows logo appears [...] Read Full Story

The November Patch Tuesday update from Microsoft follows the largest patch and security update in Microsoft’s history. This month there are six updates to Office, Active Directory and Microsoft’s Office application suite. These six updates have a low impact, bar one patch to Excel which may cause compatibility issues for some applications. The main cause for concern here is that Excel is a primary if not essential element to many environments. For example most banking, trading floor and insurance platforms. Therefore any change must be tested rigorously. Whilst there are few applications in our sample that are affected, the ChangeBASE AOK team recommends that ... Read Full Story

Trojan.Backdoor.Agent is a certain backdoor Trojan which you want to keep as far away from your computer as possiable.Trojan.Backdoor.Agent is actually able to open up a backdoor within your computer system which will allow Trojan.Backdoor.Agent to gain direct access to your machine,without your consent or your permission.There are many dangers and risks involved with regard to Trojan.Backdoor.Agent and one of these risks includes a malicious remote attacker being able to have complete control over your computer and everything that you do on it. Trojan.Backdoor.Agent may go by the following names: Trojan.BackdoorAgent Trojan.Backdoor Agent TrojanBackdoorAgent Trojan.Backdoor.Agent may display some of the following symptoms: Processes may ... 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 in the Active Template Library (ATL), which is a framework of code that helps to ease the creation of Component Object Models (COM) and ActiveX controls. Microsoft has ... Read Full Story