New configurations of the Shylock financial malware inject attacker-controlled phone numbers into the contact pages of online banking websites, according to security researchers from antivirus vendor Symantec. By doing this, the attackers ...
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cc today announced that its mobile device management (MDM) tool now supports the new OS X Mountain Lion operating system for Macs, released on Wednesday. The company cited fast adoption of Macs in business as the reason it moved out of its ...
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A hacker group calling itself the Arab Youth Group has claimed responsibility for what appears to be a serious hacking attack on Saudi Aramco, one of the world's largest energy companies. The attack comes at the same time security firms ...
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A new Trojan horse tries to covers its tracks by crippling the victim's computer after stealing data, a security researcher said today. Dubbed "Shamoon" by most antivirus companies, the malware has been used in targeted attacks aimed at ...
Tags: Trojan horse, tracks, victim's computer, shamoon malware, Windows PCs
Security software vendor Symantec said Wednesday that Enrique Salem, its president and CEO, had stepped down effective immediately, after the company reported that its revenue for the quarter ended June 29 grew just 1% year-over-year to ...
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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) action last week against Indian scammers posing as Microsoft technical support has prompted users to relate their tales of woe. Last Wednesday, the FTC hit six criminal operations, freezing assets of 14 ...
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The Douglas Stewart Company, a leading technology distributor, will participate in the 2012 International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) annual conference. In addition, the distributor will host an exclusive networking event to ...
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IDG News Service - A new piece of malware that deletes entire partitions and user files from infected computers has been found in Iran, according to an alert issued Sunday by Maher, Iran's Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination ...
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Adobe Systems released fixes on Tuesday for six critical vulnerabilities affecting its Flash multimedia application and AIR runtime, five of which could allow for remote code execution on a system. The updates affect Windows, Macintosh, ...
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In the past, Malwarebytes started out focused on consumer-based malware, but now the San Jose, Calif.-based company says it’s offering an enterprise product for desktop-based anti-malware detection and eradication protection. ...
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Red Hat announced today that it will host a seven-city tour of two-day partner conferences alongside IBM and Symantec, kicking off on September 17 in Stockholm, Sweden. The tour will be arriving in the Middle East on October 2nd and 3rd ...
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The Windows version of Crisis, a piece of malware discovered in July, is capable of infecting VMware virtual machine images, Windows Mobile devices and removable USB drives, according to researchers from antivirus vendor Symantec. Crisis ...
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Cyber criminals are using computers infected with a particular piece of malware to power a commercial proxy service that funnels potentially malicious traffic through them, according to security researchers from Symantec. Three months ...
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About 200 Android applications currently hosted on Google Play create spoofed SMS messages on the devices they are installed on, according to security researchers from antivirus vendor Symantec. This technique can theoretically be used ...
When malware infects a machine it usually goes after the system software. But in a rare case worked on by SpiderLabs, researchers found a Trojan that had been infected by a virus, leaving both still functioning as normal. The two pieces ...
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