Lucian Constantin - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Lucian Constantin

Article | 11/07/2012 Facebook launches malware checkpoints for users with infected computers

Facebook on Tuesday launched a feature that allows users to lock down their Facebook accounts and perform malware scans if they suspect that their com...

Article | 10/07/2012 Java-based Web attack installs backdoors on Windows, Linux, Mac computers

A new Web-based social engineering attack that relies on malicious Java applets attempts to install backdoors on Windows, Linux and Mac computers, acc...

Article | 10/07/2012 Best Buy: Hackers are trying to access online customer accounts

Some Best Buy customers had doubts about the authenticity of account security notifications sent by the company via email on Friday.

Article | 9/07/2012 Cyberoam fixes SSL snooping hole in network security appliances

Network security hardware manufacturer Cyberoam issued an over-the-air (OTA) update for its unified threat management (UTM) appliances in order to for...

Article | 6/07/2012 Google, Apple remove malware application from official app stores

Google and Apple removed a mobile app named "Find and Call" from their respective app stores on Thursday following reports that it was stealing people...

Article | 5/07/2012 Google says spam emails not coming from Android botnets

A new wave of pharmacy, penny stock and e-card spam emails are being sent by an Android botnet, according to security researchers from Microsoft and a...

Article | 5/07/2012 Spammers have started using Android botnets, researchers say

A new wave of pharmacy, penny stock and e-card spam emails are being sent by an Android botnet, according to security researchers from Microsoft and a...

Article | 5/07/2012 Ransomware threatens victims with police reports for child pornography

Cybercriminals are using a new piece of malware to extort money from their victims by encrypting their files and threatening to alert authorities abou...

Article | 4/07/2012 Targeted attacks against aerospace industry use Sykipot malware

New email-based attacks, some of which target the aerospace industry, are distributing new variants of the Sykipot information stealing malware, accor...

Article | 3/07/2012 Security researchers link second malware program to rogue printing incidents

A computer worm that propagates by exploiting a 2010 Windows vulnerability is responsible for some of the recent incidents involving network printers ...

Article | 2/07/2012 Widely used Web attack toolkit exploits unpatched MSXML flaw

An exploit for an unpatched vulnerability in the Microsoft XML Core Services (MSXML) has been incorporated into Blackhole, one of the most widely used...

Article | 2/07/2012 Mac backdoor used in attacks against Uighur activists

A new Mac OS X backdoor is being distributed as part of email-based attacks against Uighur activists, according to security researchers from antivirus...

Article | 29/06/2012 EU IT security would benefit from a stronger cyberinsurance market, study says

The European Union is lacking a well-developed cyberinsurance market that could push companies to better protect their information systems and data, t...

Article | 28/06/2012 Secunia PSI 3.0 can silently deploy security patches for Windows software

Danish vulnerability intelligence and research firm Secunia has launched version 3.0 of its Personal Software Inspector (PSI) patch management program...

Article | 27/06/2012 Web attackers start borrowing domain generation tricks from botnet-type malware

Hackers have started to adopt domain-generation techniques normally used by botnet-type malware in order to prolong the life of Web-based attacks, acc...