SecureMac has positively identified a nefarious trojan horse that affects Mac OS X – including Snow Leopard (10.6) – the latest version of the popular operating system. The malignant malware, disguised as a video link, is quickly spreading by luring unsuspecting victims via e-mail and on social networking sites such as Facebook. “When a...
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The Stuxnet worm has already infected 30,000 IP addresses in Iran and is still mutating, according to Monday press reports. “The attack is still ongoing and new versions of this virus are spreading,” Hamid Alipour, deputy head of Iran’s Information Technology Company, was quoted as saying by IRNA, Iran’s official news agency, AFP reported....
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Popular file-sharing website LimeWire has been ordered to permanently shut down six months after a federal judge found it liable for copyright infringement on a “massive scale.” In an order Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood in Manhattan entered a permanent injunction, ordering the service to disable the searching, downloading, uploading or file trading...
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If you didn’t already know that plain HTTP sessions are utterly insecure, here’s proof: A new Firefox addin named Firesheep captures sessions on open Wi-Fi networks and goes one step more sinister. It finds users logged into Facebook, Twitter, Google, Amazon, Dropbox, Evernote, WordPress, Flickr, bit.ly and more, and lets you take over their...
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The new version Java 6 Update 22 (updates are also available for the 5.0 version of Java) fixes 29 vulnerabilities, 15 of which have a severity rating of 10.0 on the CVSSv2 scale, the highest possible score. This means that it doesn’t get any more severe than these 15. Beware the usual default selection...
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