Lucian Constantin - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Lucian Constantin

Article | 21/08/2012 McAfee antivirus update causes problems for home and enterprise customers

A buggy update released Friday by security vendor McAfee for its consumer and enterprise antivirus products, left the computers of its customers unpro...

Article | 8/08/2012 Shylock malware injects rogue phone numbers in online banking websites

New configurations of the Shylock financial malware inject attacker-controlled phone numbers into the contact pages of online banking websites, accord...

Article | 8/08/2012 Demonoid's return uncertain after law enforcement action in Ukraine and Mexico

The return of popular BitTorrent website Demonoid, which has been offline since the end of July, is shrouded in uncertainty after the website lost its...

Article | 7/08/2012 Web applications are attacked one out of three days, report says

A typical Web application is the target of an attack at least one in three days on average, according to a report released by data security firm Imper...

Article | 6/08/2012 Criminals target companies with rogue emails from payroll services providers

Criminals are sending malicious emails that purport to come from payroll services firms in order to infect with malware the computers of payroll admin...

Article | 6/08/2012 Nvidia releases new Unix driver to fix high-risk privilege escalation vulnerability

Graphics chip maker Nvidia released a new version of its Unix driver on Friday in order to address a high-risk vulnerability that can be exploited by ...

Article | 3/08/2012 Microsoft tool evaluates new software's impact on OS security

Microsoft has released Attack Surface Analyzer 1.0, a free tool that can help system administrators, IT security professionals or software developers ...

Article | 2/08/2012 LibreOffice 3.5.5 addresses multiple arbitrary code execution vulnerabilities

Version 3.5.5 of the LibreOffice free personal productivity suite contains fixes for multiple security vulnerabilities that could be exploited to exec...

Article | 30/07/2012 Hackers reveal critical vulnerabilities in Huawei routers at Defcon

Security researchers disclosed critical vulnerabilities in routers from Chinese networking and telecommunications equipment manufacturer Huawei at the...

Article | 30/07/2012 Persistent router botnets on the horizon, researcher says at Defcon

Security researcher Michael Coppola demonstrated how small and home office (SOHO) routers can be compromised and turned into botnet clients by updatin...

Article | 29/07/2012 Researcher creates proof-of-concept malware that infects BIOS, network cards

Security researcher Jonathan Brossard created a proof-of-concept hardware backdoor called Rakshasa that replaces a computer's BIOS (Basic Input Output...

Article | 29/07/2012 Tools released at Defcon can crack widely used PPTP encryption in under a day

Security researchers released two tools at the Defcon security conference that can be used to crack the encryption of any PPTP (Point-to-Point Tunneli...

Article | 28/07/2012 NSA chief asks hackers at Defcon for help securing cyberspace

National Security Agency Director General Keith B. Alexander addressed the attendees of the Defcon hacker conference in Las Vegas on Friday and asked ...

Article | 27/07/2012 Researcher wins $200,000 prize from Microsoft for new exploit mitigation technology

Security researcher and Columbia University PhD student Vasilis Pappas was announced the winner of the Microsoft BlueHat Prize contest for an exploit ...

Article | 26/07/2012 Flame's Windows Update hack wins Pwnie Award for epic ownage at Black Hat

The judging panel of the Pwnie Awards, which are handed out every year at the Black Hat security conference for achievements and failures in IT securi...