The latest high risk adware currently infecting PCs is known as Adware.PlayMP3z.B
This form of adware is disguised as a codec for viewing media files, or for listening to audio files. As mentioned in an earlier post, beware of any media file that requires any type of download in order to play. Adware.PlayMP3z.B will prompt the [...]

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Key Government websites in the UK have been infected by cyber-criminals aiming to steal browsers’ personal details, it was reported today.
Eastern European hackers are suspected of placing the Asprox virus on more than a thousand British websites, including those run by the NHS and a local council, in the past two weeks. Experts described the [...]

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McAfee has recently reported that a very large number of fake MP3 files have been spreading across P2P networks.  The bad news is that one of these MP3 files can very easily infect your PC with dangerous malware or viruses.
The infection is not limited to MP3 files, but can also be present in MPG video [...]

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Turkish hackers have taken advantage of an email address that appeared in The Simpsons to recruit marks onto the Kimya botnet. Back in 2003, an episode of animated comedy show The Simpsons revealed that Homer Simpson’s e-mail address was chunkylover53@aol.com – an address that was actually registered by one of the show’s writers.
Plenty of people [...]

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Computer security researchers from ETH Zurich, Google, and IBM believe computer software would be more secure if, like a perishable food product, it were labeled with an expiration date. Only 59.1 percent of people use up-to-date, fully patched Web browsers, putting the remainder at risk from growing threats from diligent hackers, according to a new [...]

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Two Orange County teenagers have been charged with breaking into school computers, installing spyware and altering grades. Omar Khan and Tanvir Singh, both 18-years old, face more than just a trip down to the Principal’s office as they are both charged for breaking into and then hacking Tesoro High School computers in Orange County California.
Singh [...]

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Hong Kong domain has jumped 28 places as the most dangerous place to surf and search on the web according to a new McAfee report called “Mapping the Mal Web Revisited” which was released recently. Hong Kong takes the mantle from Tokelau, a tiny island of 1,500 inhabitants in the South Pacific.
The report reveals that [...]

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A New Zealand teenager, who has admitted being part of a global cyber-hacking ring that caused millions of dollars worth of computer damage to businesses, could now be facing a jail sentence.
The teenager, Owen Walker has pleaded guilty to charges of accessing a computer for dishonest purpose, damaging or interfering with a computer system, possessing [...]

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Australian huge Telco company Telsta have been embarrassed by handing out malware-infected USB drives to tutorial attendees at the AusCERT security conference on the Gold Coast.
AusCERT’s marketing manager Claire Groves confirmed the USB sticks came certified pre-owned (thanks Dan Geer) and were given out at a tutorial at the conference.
The malware was of the “autorun” [...]

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Microsoft has issued four security patches in its latest monthly update. The May edition of Patch Tuesday features patches for three issues rated ‘critical’ and a fourth rated ‘moderate’.
Experts say the most serious of this month’s Patch Tuesday bulletins includes a critical update in the Jet Data Base Engine, affecting different versions of Windows, including [...]

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