Keep your PC away from spyware attack!
From irritating nuisance adware and popups to much moredangerous and destructive attacks from backdoors, exploits and downloaders, spywareis a growing threat. Even with the latest anti-spyware protection, 88% of new scansuncover new malware detection often after just 24 hours! With new threats andvariants emerging daily, the bad news is that they re here to stay and...
Doombot Worm Spreads via Phishing Model Attack
Doombot.k comes with IRC bot capabilities and spreads via massmailing. Once inside the computer, the worm runs in the background, acting as aBackdoor Server that provides access to the victim s PC via IRC channels, for theremote attacker. The smart worm also lowers the security level of the computer, andchanges entries in the Windows HOSTS files in order to block websites of...
Rivalry between media websites results in Netscape being hacked via an XSS attack
London, UK 28 July, 2006 Netscape.com, an online socialmedia website, has been hacked through a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability intheir recently launched news service. It is reported that the attack was launched byfans of Digg.com, a competing social networking website. The hackers used the XSSvulnerability to inject their own JavaScript code into the...
Hotmail, MSN and Amazon Susceptible to Attack via Cross Site Scripting
London, UK 05 July, 2006 A 16 year old Dutch student,Adriaan Graas, interested in Internet security and web development discovered a hackfor the popular Hotmail free email service via a Cross Site Scripting attack.Microsoft, is reported to have been aware of this vulnerability for over a week but,at time of writing, has not yet fixed it.Hacking hotmail via XSSWhen...