December 23, 2011 - Adobe Systems released a security update for Adobe Acrobat and Reader 9.x for Windows on December 16, 2011, in order to fix a zero-day vulnerability. As Vikram Thakur reported recently, there have been zero-day attacks using this PDF (continue reading...) Read more
December 21, 2011 - It is certainly a new day and age for many aspects of today’s society. One prominent sector that continues to lead by example in this area is the Internet, more specifically the online shopping environment. Note that online shopping is (continue reading...) Read more
December 20, 2011 - I want share with you what ESET Latin America’s Research team thinks will be the main trends in malware and cybercrime in 2012. In our office it is usual to produce an analysis of emerging trends in a year-end report (continue reading...) Read more
December 19, 2011 - Hello, Today we published the December Security Bulletin Webcast Questions & Answers page. We fielded six questions on various topics during the webcast, including bulletins released, deployment tools, and update detection tools. For more details on this month’s bulletins, click (continue reading...) Read more
December 19, 2011 - Hacktisivm, or as one blogger put it “Revolution 2.0”, is something I would describe as an activist agenda where there may be no visible monetary gain by the instigator. Instead the overall goal is to send a message or get (continue reading...) Read more
December 19, 2011 - It used to be that beta had a specific meaning. And I am not talking about Archimedes. Beta once meant an early, test version of a program. Run it, play with it, (continue reading...) Read more
December 16, 2011 - Adobe today released a patch for a flaw (CVE-2011-2462) in Adobe Reader 9. The flaw is actively being used in targeted attacks and can be used to take full control (continue reading...) Read more
December 15, 2011 - Hosts: Jonathan Ness, Security Development Manager, MSRC Jerry Bryant, Group Manager, Trustworthy Computing Communications Website: TechNet/Security Chat Topic: December 2011 Security Bulletin Release Date: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 Q: Some of my users had issues with text being deleted from Word documents. Is (continue reading...) Read more
December 15, 2011 - Good security news this morning... Microsoft announced that in 2012 Internet Explorer will be updated "silently" to its newest possible version. This new silent update will eliminate the pop-up window that currently (continue reading...) Read more
December 14, 2011 - This post focuses on the recent simultaneous publication of the Cisco 2011 Annual Security Report and the Cisco Connected World Technology Report Chapter 3. Several highlights from the reports focus on the shifting technologies, expectations, and employee behaviors already (continue reading...) Read more
December 13, 2011 - http://youtu.be/C8lEvvzH90g (continue reading...) Read more
December 13, 2011 - Back in 2008 ESET's global research teams put together some suggestions for "a top ten of things that people can do to protect themselves against malicious activity." That series of blogs was subsequently expanded into a paper called "Ten (continue reading...) Read more
December 13, 2011 - Hello, welcome to this month’s blog on the Microsoft patch release. This is an average month—the vendor is releasing 13 bulletins covering a total of 19 vulnerabilities. Three of this month's issues are rated ‘Critical’ and they affect Media Player, Microsoft (continue reading...) Read more
December 13, 2011 - Hi everyone – Mike Reavey here. Today, we’re releasing our December set of security updates. As we do every month, we're providing a heads-up on what’s coming in this month’s release as well as offering links to more information so (continue reading...) Read more
December 13, 2011 - This month, we have 13 Security Bulletins instead of the expected 14, bringing us up to 99 bulletins this year. The original anticipated 14th bulletin was for the BEAST attack, but (continue reading...) Read more
December 13, 2011 - Thanks to Masaki Suenaga and Andy Xies for their analysis. Following the tweet from our @threatintel Twitter account last night about malicious applications targeting users in European countries, Symantec Security Response has identified another group of fraudulent apps on the (continue reading...) Read more
December 12, 2011 - In response to the recent push to move websites that contain adult content into the .xxx sponsored top level domain (sTLD) in order to easily classify them this post discusses the merits of creating a ".kid" sTLD that will be (continue reading...) Read more
December 12, 2011 - Authored by Tony Millington and Gavin O’Gorman The intercepted email in this blog was provided by Symantec.cloud. The Nitro Attacks whitepaper, published by Symantec Security Response, was a snapshot of a hacking group’s activity spanning July 2011 to September 2011. (continue reading...) Read more
December 8, 2011 - Thanks to Stephen Doherty, Andrea Lelli, Nicolas Falliere, Paul Mangan, Asuka Yamamoto, and Sean Kiernan for their technical contributions. Recently, we posted two blogs about attacks leveraging the latest Adobe vulnerability. These attacks are part of a long-running series (continue reading...) Read more
December 8, 2011 - Microsoft Holiday Patch Tuesday release will be substantial. We will get 14 bulletins for a total of 20 CVEs. Out of the 14, three are of the highest severity level, "critical", (continue reading...) Read more