Lucian Constantin - Author - PC World Australia

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Article | 9/05/2012 Financial malware tricks users with claims of free credit card fraud insurance

A piece of financial malware called Tatanga attempts to trick online banking users into authorizing rogue money transfers from their accounts as part ...

Article | 7/05/2012 PHP working on new patch for critical vulnerability after initial one failed

The PHP Group plans to release new versions of the PHP processor on Tuesday in order to patch two publicly known critical remote code execution vulner...

Article | 28/04/2012 Researcher misinterprets Oracle advisory, discloses unpatched database vulnerability

Instructions on how to exploit an unpatched Oracle Database Server vulnerability in order to intercept the information exchanged between clients and d...

Article | 27/04/2012 Most of the Internet's top 200,000 HTTPS websites are insecure, Trustworthy Internet Movement says

Ninety percent of the Internet's top 200,000 HTTPS-enabled websites are vulnerable to known types of SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) attack, according to a...

Article | 25/04/2012 LAN attack can put some Samsung TVs in endless restart loop

A vulnerability in the firmware of several network-enabled Samsung TV models and possibly Blu-ray players allows potential attackers to put the vulner...

Article | 25/04/2012 Macs more likely to carry Windows malware than Mac malware, study finds

One in five Mac computers is likely to carry Windows malware, but only one in 36 is likely to be infected with malware specifically designed for the M...

Article | 24/04/2012 India overtakes U.S. as the world's top email spam source

The volume of email spam that originated from India during the first three months of 2012 exceeded the volume coming from the U.S. and transformed the...

Article | 24/04/2012 WordPress security update patches external libraries, several vulnerabilities

The WordPress development team released WordPress 3.3.2 on Friday in order to address several vulnerabilities in the popular blogging platform as well...

Article | 24/04/2012 Most IT and security professionals see Anonymous as serious threat to their companies

The majority of IT and security professionals believe that Anonymous and hacktivists are among the groups that are most likely to attack their organiz...

Article | 21/04/2012 Proof-of-concept Android Trojan app analyzes motion sensor data to determine tapped keys

A team of researchers from Pennsylvania State University (PSU) and IBM have designed a proof-of-concept Android Trojan app that can steal passwords an...

Article | 20/04/2012 Twitter spam campaign infects users with fake antivirus programs

A large spam campaign observed on Twitter during the last couple of days directed users to malicious websites that exploited vulnerabilities in browse...

Article | 19/04/2012 Android malware writers exploit Instagram craze to distribute SMS Trojan horse

In an attempt to take advantage of the popularity of free photo-sharing app Instagram among smartphone users, malware writers have created fake Instag...

Article | 19/04/2012 Computer Trojan horse steals credit card details from hotel reception software

A remote access computer Trojan (RAT) designed to steal credit card details from hotel point-of-sale (PoS) applications is being sold on the undergrou...

Article | 18/04/2012 Hackers ramping up attacks against Tibetan activists

Hackers are ramping up their attacks against Tibetan activists and are using increasingly sophisticated techniques to deliver malware, according to re...

Article | 14/04/2012 Upcoming Firefox click-to-play feature will stop automated plug-in exploits

Mozilla developers are working on a new Firefox feature that will block the automated display of plug-in-based content like Flash videos, Java applets...