Apr 18, 2013 | Bitdender Products + News, Malware and Exploits
According to Security Vender BifDefender and Brian Krebs of KrebsonSecurity.com – WordPress websites are under heavy attack… Attackers are aiming at blogs running poorly-secured WordPress configurations in an attempt to create a powerful botnet that,...
Mar 22, 2013 | ESET Protection Products + News, Malware and Exploits
According to Dr Web (another respected Antivirus supplier) – the number one Mac threat at the moment is Yontoo Trojan. Dr Web on Yontoo for Mac Yontoo hijacks web pages with adware and is detected by ESET CyberSecurity for Mac as Trojan...
Mar 20, 2013 | ESET Protection Products + News, Malware and Exploits
Sadly, Cyprus has been the source of bad news lately. Even sadder, nothing travels faster than bad news, and bad people are all too ready to use bad news to trick their victims into opening bad files. My colleague Aleksandr Matrosov has alerted us to a spammed out...
Jan 13, 2013 | Browser Security, Malware and Exploits
Oracle has released an update to fix the critical security flaw (vulnerability) in its Java software that cyber-criminals wielding malware have been exploiting to break into vulnerable computers. This new release of Java 7 Update 11 fixes CVE-2013-0422 in Java 7...
Jan 13, 2013 | Browser Security, Malware and Exploits
On Thursday the news broke about this Java exploit – the exploit is referred to as CVE-2013-0422. On Friday, this exploit hit mainstream news sites, not just the techie journals – and even got the attention of the Department of Homeland Security –...
Jan 11, 2013 | Browser Security, Malware and Exploits
Customers have asked if they need to UNINSTALL Java – and the answer is no – you really do not need to go that far. As always, you need to make sure that your computer is up to date – with Java – if you are running any version of Java 6 –...
