Lucian Constantin - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Lucian Constantin

Article | 30/10/2012 Lack of abuse detection allows cloud computing instances to be used like botnets, study says

Some cloud providers fail to detect and block malicious traffic originating from their networks, which provides cybercriminals with an opportunity to ...

Article | 29/10/2012 Critical remote code execution vulnerability fixed in Exim email server

Developers of the popular Exim email server software released an emergency update on Friday to address a critical vulnerability that could allow attac...

Article | 27/10/2012 South Carolina reveals massive data breach of Social Security Numbers, credit cards

Approximately 3.6 million Social Security numbers and 387,000 credit and debit card numbers belonging to South Carolina taxpayers were exposed after a...

Article | 26/10/2012 Critical flaw found in software used by many industrial control systems

CoDeSys, a piece of software running on industrial control systems (ICS) from over 200 vendors contains a vulnerability that allows potential attacker...

Article | 25/10/2012 Open DNS resolvers increasingly abused to amplify DDoS attacks, report says

Open and misconfigured DNS (Domain Name System) resolvers are increasingly used to amplify distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, according to ...

Article | 24/10/2012 Researcher to demonstrate feature-rich malware that works as a browser extension

Security researcher Zoltan Balazs has developed a remote-controlled piece of malware that functions as a browser extension and is capable of modifying...

Article | 24/10/2012 Adobe patches six critical vulnerabilities in Shockwave Player

Adobe has fixed six critical vulnerabilities in Shockwave Player that could potentially be exploited by attackers to execute malicious code, via the r...

Article | 23/10/2012 CyanogenMod developers remove code that logged device screen-lock patterns

The development team of CyanogenMod, a popular community-built Android firmware, discovered and removed a line of code that posed potential security r...

Article | 22/10/2012 Spammers abuse .gov URL shortener service in work-at-home scams

Spammers have found a way to abuse a URL shortener service destined for U.S. government social media activities in order to craft rogue .gov URLs for ...

Article | 19/10/2012 Dutch government seeks to let law enforcement hack foreign computers

The Dutch government wants to give law enforcement authorities the power to hack into computers, including those located in other countries, for the p...

Article | 18/10/2012 Adobe bolsters security in Reader, Acrobat XI with added features

The recently launched Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat XI come with new security features and an improved sandbox that will make the products harder to ...

Article | 17/10/2012 Over 20Gbps DDoS attacks have become common occurrences, Prolexic says

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks with an average bandwidth of over 20Gbps have become commonplace this year, according to researchers from...

Article | 16/10/2012 The Steam URL protocol can be abused to exploit vulnerabilities in games, researchers say

Attackers can abuse the way browsers and other applications handle steam:// protocol URLs in order to exploit serious vulnerabilities in the Steam cli...

Article | 15/10/2012 Facebook removes two-factor authentication mobile numbers from search

Facebook users who have associated a mobile phone number with their accounts in order to enable the "Login Approvals" security feature can no longer b...

Article | 15/10/2012 Kaspersky discovers miniFlame cyberespionage malware directly linked to Flame and Gauss

Security researchers from Kaspersky Lab have identified another piece of malware targeting the Middle East that is likely part of the interrelated cyb...