PROBLEM UPDATE PROBLEMS FOR MCAFEE
Update from the disastrous effects that issued by McAfee during the day yesterday for your antivirus. The offending update is the number 5958 and causing significant problems with Windows XP SP3 making the system practically unusable.
update in practice because of the recognition system file "svchost.exe" such as viruses, l'eliminazione del file causa infatti continui riavvii della macchina ed impedisce di accedere alla rete.
McAfee ha fatto sapere di essere immediatamente corsa ai ripari eliminando il problema alla fonte, rimuovendo il file incriminato dal server degli aggiornamenti.
Nonostante la causa del problema sia stata rimossa, sembra che i sistemi "colpiti" dall'aggiornamento difettoso siano molti, dell'ordine di diverse decine dimigliaia.
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Blunt Wraps Vs Swishers
WebOS
WebOS, il sistema operativo mobile sviluppato da Palm, stando alle informazioni riportate sul blog di Kaspersky soffrirebbe di gravi problemi di sicurezza, tali vulnerabilità sono state individuate nella versione 1.3.5 di webOS ed in later corrected in version 1.4 released over a month ago.
Some researchers have indeed succeeded in cracking the platform of the banal webOS using SMS to exploit vulnerabilities in the system.
SMS sending some specially created for a smartphone with webOS, researchers have shown that it can perform HTML injection attacks require a certain level.
To demonstrate the effectiveness of the attacks, the researchers also created a demonstration video in which six examples are shown of attack.
Friday, April 2, 2010
Recurring Itchy Bumps
Trojan.Dosvine
In the last hours Symantec released a statement on Trojan.Dosvine, a known malware and recently used for a DDoS attack (Distributed Denial of Service) against some of the Vietnamese government web resources. Symantec same as stated in its announcement, the use of malware in support of political battles is a rapidly growing trend. These activities are complemented and then the much more widespread criminal activity aimed at identity theft and illicit financial gain.
In its setup action / infections on your PC Trojan.Dosvine replace the file. Exe used by Acrobat Reader for your automatic updates, in fact, this attempt to evade the scrutiny of security software using a common procedure is known by end users. A study on questa procedura è disponibile qui.
Quanto accaduto sul web vietnamita rispecchia un'analoga iniziativa messa in atto nei confronti di alcuni siti web coreani. In quel caso venne utilizzato il malware Trojan.Dozer per effettuare un DDOS nei confronti di alcuni siti governativi strategici. L'analisi completa e ulteriori approfondimenti sono disponibili a questo indirizzo : http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/vietnamese-latest-target-politically-motivated-attack.
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