Latest IT Security News http://www.malwarecity.com 2009-07-13T09:12:07+01:00 http://www.malwarecity.com/media/images/fan_zone/mlc_120_60.jpghttp://www.malwarecity.com/news.html text/html 2009-07-07T13:17:55+01:00 http://www.malwarecity.com WebMaster (news@malwarecity.com) http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Malwarecity-News/~3/hfs5kpsx1rc/microsoft-confirms-attacks-against-ie6-ie7-484.html &#039;Browse-and-own&#039; bug lets hackers hijack Windows XP; temp fix available<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Malwarecity-News/~4/hfs5kpsx1rc" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.malwarecity.com/news/microsoft-confirms-attacks-against-ie6-ie7-484.html text/html 2009-07-02T07:58:42+01:00 http://www.malwarecity.com WebMaster (news@malwarecity.com) http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Malwarecity-News/~3/AMuDGgWEwIU/conficker-left-manchester-unable-to-issue-traffic-tickets-482.html Infection cost £1.5m in total<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Malwarecity-News/~4/AMuDGgWEwIU" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.malwarecity.com/news/conficker-left-manchester-unable-to-issue-traffic-tickets-482.html text/html 2009-07-01T09:10:39+01:00 http://www.malwarecity.com WebMaster (news@malwarecity.com) http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Malwarecity-News/~3/noB0P2s7-AY/financial-and-social-media-scams-taking-off-479.html MarkMonitor&#039;s latest Brandjacking Index has been released, and if you hadn&#039;t already guessed, scammers are trying to take full advantage of the financial crisis with related subjects lines and the like. A less predictable discovery was that they&#039;re attacking through social networks on a regular basis, too.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Malwarecity-News/~4/noB0P2s7-AY" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.malwarecity.com/news/financial-and-social-media-scams-taking-off-479.html text/html 2009-06-26T08:40:51+01:00 http://www.malwarecity.com WebMaster (news@malwarecity.com) http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Malwarecity-News/~3/y96cH4Gc-C8/googles-anti-malvertisingcom-fights-off-bad-ads-475.html The site was created because Google has a significant interest in making sure that ad blocking doesn&#039;t become a standard security practice.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Malwarecity-News/~4/y96cH4Gc-C8" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.malwarecity.com/news/googles-anti-malvertisingcom-fights-off-bad-ads-475.html text/html 2009-06-25T10:15:55+01:00 http://www.malwarecity.com WebMaster (news@malwarecity.com) http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Malwarecity-News/~3/9zQ-zrxAnMY/email-an-open-door-to-sophisticated-security-threats-474.html Lysa Myers, director of research, West Coast Labs<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Malwarecity-News/~4/9zQ-zrxAnMY" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.malwarecity.com/news/email-an-open-door-to-sophisticated-security-threats-474.html text/html 2009-06-23T07:51:29+01:00 http://www.malwarecity.com WebMaster (news@malwarecity.com) http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Malwarecity-News/~3/EZflGYgywIg/mac-trojan-targets-game-sites-to-infect-users-471.html Virus researchers have spotted a new variant of a Mac trojan that attempts to change a victim computer&#039;s DNS settings.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Malwarecity-News/~4/EZflGYgywIg" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.malwarecity.com/news/mac-trojan-targets-game-sites-to-infect-users-471.html text/html 2009-06-22T08:55:24+01:00 http://www.malwarecity.com WebMaster (news@malwarecity.com) http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Malwarecity-News/~3/tuFFpX0GA-g/bitdefender-finds-scammers-posing-as-online-payment-services-to-gain-personal-information-from-victims-469.html Stealth malware redirects browsers towards phony websites<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Malwarecity-News/~4/tuFFpX0GA-g" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.malwarecity.com/news/bitdefender-finds-scammers-posing-as-online-payment-services-to-gain-personal-information-from-victims-469.html text/html 2009-06-18T09:30:38+01:00 http://www.malwarecity.com WebMaster (news@malwarecity.com) http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Malwarecity-News/~3/xVzUon6F-Pg/nine-ball-attack-strikes-40-000-web-sites-465.html More than 40,000 Web sites have been hit by a mass-compromise attack dubbed Nine Ball that injects malware into pages and redirects victims to a site that will then try to download Trojans and keylogger code, Websense said today.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Malwarecity-News/~4/xVzUon6F-Pg" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.malwarecity.com/news/nine-ball-attack-strikes-40-000-web-sites-465.html text/html 2009-06-17T12:27:30+01:00 http://www.malwarecity.com WebMaster (news@malwarecity.com) http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Malwarecity-News/~3/VmJPaCwTct8/microsofts-free-antivirus-is-this-an-apology-464.html Microsoft&#039;s Free Antivirus: Is This An Apology?Who should know more about PC threats than the company whose software makes most of them possible? Is Microsoft&#039;s upcoming, free anti-malware app the company&#039;s way of apologizing to customers?<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Malwarecity-News/~4/VmJPaCwTct8" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.malwarecity.com/news/microsofts-free-antivirus-is-this-an-apology-464.html text/html 2009-06-09T12:18:29+01:00 http://www.malwarecity.com WebMaster (news@malwarecity.com) http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Malwarecity-News/~3/Sz-b-QN7TYk/webhost-hack-wipes-out-data-for-100000-sites-459.html 100,000 websites were destroyed by a targeted a zero-day vulnerability in a widely-used virtualization application.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Malwarecity-News/~4/Sz-b-QN7TYk" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.malwarecity.com/news/webhost-hack-wipes-out-data-for-100000-sites-459.html