Security researchers have found a “highly critical” flaw in the portable-network graphics plug-in for the latest version of Adobe Systems’ Photoshop Creative Suite, as well as for other versions of the software that run on Windows.
The portable-network graphics, or PNG, plug-in vulnerabilities were discovered in Adobe Photoshop Creative Suite 3 (CS3), Photoshop CS2, [...]

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Malware purveyors deliberately left USB sticks loaded with a Trojan in a London car park in a bid to trick users into getting infected.
The attack was designed to propagate Trojan banking software that swiped users’ login credentials from compromised machines.
Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer of security firm F-Secure, said separately that Trojan code was replacing [...]

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Virus writers have been gaming Google’s “sponsored links” — the paid ads shown alongside search engine results. They are aiming to get their malicious software installed on computers whose users click onto ad links after searching for legitimate sites such as BBBonline.org, the official Web site of the Better Business Bureau.

Sponsored links allow customers to [...]

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When large businesses buy new PCs, they often wipe the hard drives clean and install a fresh copy of Windows, along with the other software they want workers to have.
Some consumers, frustrated with all of the trial software, desktop icons and other stuff that comes loaded on their machines, are doing the same [...]

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The number of new pieces of malware spiked in the first quarter of this year, and the majority of the new threats are being embedded in malicious Web sites.According to a study from Sophos, an antivirus and anti-spam company, researchers discovered 23,864 new threats in the first three months of 2007. That’s more than [...]

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Despite all the anti-malware roadblocks built into Windows Vista, a senior Microsoft official is lowering the security expectations, warning that viruses, password-stealing Trojans and rootkits will continue to thrive as malware authors adapt to the new operating system.
Mark Russinovich (right), technical fellow in Microsoft’s Platform and Services Division, used the spotlight of the CanSecWest security [...]

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There will be a significant rise in virus attacks on both the Mac and open-source platforms, according to renowned security expert, Eugene Kaspersky.
The co-founder and head of anti-virus research at Kaspersky Labs claims that Vista’s lukewarm reception will drive more customers towards alternative platforms, making them a more attractive target for malware writers. ‘Home users [...]

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On 31 May 2007, all Customer Preview Program (CPP) pre-release versions of Windows Vista will expire. If you are running a pre-release version of Windows Vista (Beta 2, RC1 or RC2), you will begin to receive warning notifications about the upcoming expiration on 18 May. To avoid work disruption and loss of data, [...]

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The Internet’s blog sites have become overgrown with a variety of unpleasant content, including porn, offensive language, hate posting, and malware, a new threat analysis has suggested.
According to Scansafe’s Monthly Global Threat Report for March 2007, a surprisingly high percentage of the Internet’s blog sites — up to 80 percent — contain “offensive” content, with [...]

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Developers have discovered that the name given to a Vista executable affects whether or not it will require admin rights to run.
Security experts said the feature might seem odd, but helps to catch out spyware.
Reg Reader Mike, a C++ developer, discovered the behaviour after spending days trying to work out why just some of his [...]

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