Cyber Defense

Microsoft, Adobe Release Toolkit To Block Zero-Day Attacks In Security Flaw

REDMOND, Wa. - Microsoft and Adobe Systems have announced that a recently released Microsoft toolkit can be used to block zero-day attacks targeting a security flaw in Adobe's Acrobat and Reader programs. In an advisory published Friday, Microsoft detailed how its Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit 2.0 could be used to short-circuit the threat. Adobe, which

By |2010-09-13T00:00:00-04:00September 13th, 2010|Archive, Cyber Defense|

Microsoft Uses Courts To Obliterate Waledac Spam Botnet

REDMOND, Wa. - With court backing and a novel use of a civil procedure, Microsoft appears to be close to obliterating the Waledac spam botnet, changing the way online criminal operations are defeated. A magistrate judge in federal court in Virginia is expected to recommend within days that the judge hearing Microsoft's case grant a

By |2010-09-09T00:00:00-04:00September 9th, 2010|Archive, Cyber Defense|

Mozilla Upgrades Browser To Defeat Clickjacking

SAN FRANCSICO - Mozilla released two new versions of its browser on Tuesday, Firefox 3.6.9 and Firefox 3.5.12, to close 10 critical security vulnerabilities in each and to help Web site operators block a risk called clickjacking. Critical vulnerabilities can let a remote attacker run arbitrary code on a computer, CNET News.Com. With Web browsers

By |2010-09-09T00:00:00-04:00September 9th, 2010|Archive, Cyber Defense|

Top 7 Internet Scams Of The Decade

SAN FRANCISCO - With 2010 in its' last third, PandaLabs, Panda Security's anti-malware laboratory, has released a ranking of the most widespread scams on the Web from the past 10 years. These include the infamous Nigerian scam, ploys involving beautiful foreign women and money mule schemes based on too-good-to-be-true job offers. "As with all the

By |2010-09-07T00:00:00-04:00September 7th, 2010|Archive, Cyber Defense|

Quantum Crypto Cracked, Researchers Say

SAN FRANCISCO - Researchers at Norwegian and German institutes claim to have successfully cracked the quantum cryptography equipment used to cloak highly sensitive communications by banks and defense agencies. The researchers said they had remotely controlled the photon detectors used in commercially available photodiode quantum cryptography systems. This allowed them to eavesdrop on communications, the

By |2010-09-02T00:00:00-04:00September 2nd, 2010|Archive, Cyber Defense|

Computerized Cars Could Be Hacked

DETROIT - That nice, new computerized car you just bought could be hackable. Of course, your car is probably not a high-priority target for most malicious hackers. But security experts tell CNET that car hacking is starting to move from the realm of the theoretical to reality, thanks to new wireless technologies and evermore dependence

By |2010-09-02T00:00:00-04:00September 2nd, 2010|Archive, Cyber Defense|