Apr 30, 2012 | Threat News
by Stephen Cobb ESET Security Evangelist What do printed QR codes and NFC (Near Field Communication) chips have in common, besides storing instructions that computers can read? They are both hackable and their ability to store and communicate computer instructions is...
Apr 30, 2012 | Macintosh Viruses and Trojans
by Alexis Dorais-Joncas Security Intelligence Team Lead The Flashback trojan has been all over the news lately, but it is not the only Mac malware threat out there at the moment. A few weeks ago, we published a technical analysis of OSX/Lamadai.A, the Mac OS X payload...
Apr 29, 2012 | Adware, Spyware and Trojans, Virus & AntiVirus News
by Jay Scherder, KY3 News SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — It’s being called the “Internet Doomsday.” Thousands of computers could go offline this summer because of a virus. According to InformationWeek, at its peak the malware was infecting machines used by...
Apr 29, 2012 | Macintosh Viruses and Trojans
By Gregg Keizer Computerworld – Of the Macs that have been infected by the Flashback malware, nearly two-thirds are running OS X 10.6, better known as Snow Leopard, a Russian antivirus company said Friday. Doctor Web, which earlier this month was the first to...
Apr 26, 2012 | Macintosh Viruses and Trojans
Speaking to CBR at the Info Security 2012 conference, Kaspersky founder and CEO Eugene Kaspersky said that Apple is years behind Microsoft when it comes to security, and the company will have to change the ways it approaches updates following the recent malware...
Apr 23, 2012 | Adware, Spyware and Trojans
by Righard Zwienenberg Senior Research Fellow As written in our “Password management for non-obvious accounts” blog post on February 22, the FBI confiscated the DNS Servers used by the DNS Changer malware and replaced them with different servers so that...
