Since the Web first came online in 1991, it has grown and improved beyond anyone's predictions. Unlike the gray background, mono-spaced text and ugly graphics on the Web in those early years, today's Web is rich with video, interactive applications and other useful and distracting goodies. But even after all these years, the way we find, navigate and save content on the Web works pretty much like it always did. Here's a page with text. Some of the words are hyperlinked, so when...

Microsoft issued a new Security Advisory for a flaw in the Windows Help and Support Center as reported by Ars Technica. The vulnerability only affects Windows XP and Server 2003, Vista and 7 are unaffected. The worry with this vulnerability is that the help links in the Help Center can be hijacked to run executables on the victim’s computer. The details of the vulnerability and possible attack are as follows: In Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, clicking on an hcp:// link launches...

It’s June now so we get to look forward to the monthly Microsoft update, which will be next week June 8th. As reported by Ars Technica the patch this month is hefty and Microsoft has released 10 security bulletins in advance about the updates. These 10 bulletins will fix 34 vulnerabilities and MS will host a webcast on June 9 to address customer questions. Three of the vulnerabilities are marked “Critical” and seven are marked “Important”. Critical vulnerabilities mean that they...

A new attack on a Flash bug has surfaced that would give attackers control of a victim’s computer after crashing it, reports PC World. Adobe put out a Security Advisory about this on June 4. It is categorized as a critical issue and all operating systems with Flash are vulnerable including Windows, Linux, and Apple and it is also found in the recent versions of Reader and Acrobat The affected versions are Adobe Flash Player 10.0.45.2, 9.0.262, and earlier 10.0.x and 9.0.x versions for...

Facebook has been having so many security problems lately, the latest one is a bug discovered on Wednesday by a college student. The bug would allow a hacker access to accounts with the power to delete friends and more. Even though this is a serious bug, as of Saturday it was still unpatched. The college student, Steven Abbagnaro, wrote up proof-of-concept code of an attack that would get all of a users’s publicly available data from their Facebook page and then delete their...

“Sexiest Video Ever” Malware on Facebook A new malware attack has been circulating Facebook lately which puts a link on the user’s newsfeed claiming to be the “sexiest video ever”. When clicked the program tries to access the user’s info and if they allow that it will prompt them to install a new version of a FLV video player and starts downloading an .exe.

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VirusTotal has been well known to most readers of the blog. It’s a free virus and malware online scan service which allows submitters to test a particular file against a multitude of malware scanners. So, it’s not highly surprising that malware authors would try to use that name to further their gain. Today we came across such a sample arriving at one of our spamtraps through a car-related forum. The message looks like this: Subject: Warning! DO NOT REPLY TO THIS...