Tech Round-up for 4/22/13
Here are some of the technology stories that caught our eye today: Lew Moorman, president of cloud provider Rackspace, believes that there is more than enough demand for the proliferation of clouds...
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May 7, IDG News Service – (International) Pentagon accuses China government, military of cyberattacks. The U.S. Department of Defense’s annual report on China’s military capabilities concluded that the...
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May 17, Help Net Security – (International) Ransomware adds password stealing to its arsenal. Microsoft researchers found a new variant of the Reveton malware that downloads a password-stealing...
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May 22, V3.co.uk – (International) Apache Darkleech PDF and JavaScript attacks infect hundreds more websites. Researchers at Zscaler discovered a marked increase in the number of Web sites being...
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Here are some of the technology stories that caught our eye today: German security company AV-Test expects there to be more than 60 million pieces of malware by the end of the year. The firm has...
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June 5, Softpedia – (International) Systems of DNSimple and easyDNS abused for DNS amplification attack.Recent distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against DNS providers DNSimple and easyDNS...
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June 6, The Register – (International) Microsoft and FBI storm ramparts of Citadel botnets. Microsoft and the FBI have disabled around 1,000 of the estimated 1,400 botnets created by the Citadel botnet...
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June 8, Softpedia – (International) After CNN patches vulnerability, diet spammers start abusing Ask.com flaw. Spammers abused an open redirect vulnerability in CNN’s Web site until the news...
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June 11, Help Net Security – (International) Washington Free Beacon website redirects to malware. Invincia researchers found several pages on the Web site of the Washington Free Beacon were compromised...
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June 19, Softpedia – (International) Oracle fixes 40 Java vulnerabilities with June 2013 CPU. Oracle released a critical patch update for Java, closing 40 vulnerabilities, 37 of which were remotely...
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June 24, V3.co.uk – (International) Android Fakedefender malware attacks Google smartphone and tablet users. Researchers at Sympantec discovered a new piece of ransomware affecting Android phones that...
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Symantec says it’s found the first fake antivirus app aimed at Android users, and says it acts like ransomware. Malware masquerading as antivirus has been around for awhile. Rogue malware, such as...
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June 25, Help Net Security – (International) Researchers reveal tricks for Cutwail’s endurance. Researchers at Trend Micro released an analysis of the Cutwail/Pushdo botnet, including how it disguises...
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June 27, Softpedia – (International) Gamarue malware-spreading emails purporting to come from Qantas spotted again. Trustwave’s SpiderLabs’ researchers identified bogus emails purporting to come from...
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July 1, Softpedia – (International) Android hack tools designed to automatically steal information from PCs. F-Secure researchers discovered an Android hack tool identified as...
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Here are some of the technology stories that caught our eye today: Researchers from Bluebox Security found a flaw in Google’s Android OS dating back four years that allows hackers to modify digitally...
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July 15, Softpedia – (International) Janicab Mac malware uses RLO to hide file extension. Researchers at F-Secure discovered a piece of malware for Macs dubbed Backdoor:Python/Janicab.A that uses the...
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July 17, The Register – (International) Oracle releases July patch batch…with 27 fixes for remote exploits. Oracle released a quarterly Critical Patch Update containing 89 updates for various Oracle...
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July 19, Softpedia – (International) EXPIRO file infectors distributed with Styx Exploit Kit. Trend Micro researchers found that the PE_EXPIRO family of malware was being spread by the popular Styx...
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July 29, The Register – (International) Symantec slams Web Gateway back door on would-be corporate spies. Symantec issued an update for its Web Gateway appliances that closes several critical flaws...
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