Lucian Constantin - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Lucian Constantin

Article | 20/03/2012 Cost of data breaches falls for first time in seven years

The average organizational cost of data breaches has decreased for the first time in seven years, according to a study released by Symantec and the Po...

Article | 19/03/2012 Java-based Web attack installs hard-to-detect malware in RAM

A hard-to-detect piece of malware that doesn't create any files on the affected systems was dropped onto the computers of visitors to popular news sit...

Article | 17/03/2012 Leaked exploit prompts researcher to publish blueprint for critical RDP vulnerability

Luigi Auriemma, the researcher who discovered a recently patched critical vulnerability in Microsoft's Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), published a proo...

Article | 16/03/2012 Digitally signed malware is increasingly prevalent, researchers say

Security companies have recently identified multiple malware threats that use stolen digital certificates to sign their components in an attempt to av...

Article | 16/03/2012 Cold-calling scammers target antivirus customers, diversify their tactics

Tech support scammers have started targeting antivirus customers and have diversified their techniques, according to reports from antivirus vendors Av...

Article | 14/03/2012 Cybercriminals bypass e-banking protections with fraudulent SIM cards, says Trusteer

Cybercriminals are impersonating victims in order to obtain replacement SIM cards from their mobile carriers, which they then use to defeat phone-base...

Article | 13/03/2012 Google's trap for Chrome exploit writers leads to crashes for users

A limitation built recently into Google Chrome to detect and block Flash Player exploits ended up breaking certain Flash-based applications and games ...

Article | 10/03/2012 Researchers hack IE9 during second day at Pwn2Own

Internet Explorer 9 was the second browser to succumb to white-hat hackers during the Pwn2Own contest at the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouv...

Article | 10/03/2012 Google patches rare critical vulnerability in Chrome

Google has patched a critical Chrome vulnerability disclosed Wednesday at the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver that can be exploited to esc...

Article | 9/03/2012 Researchers can't identify programming language used in Duqu, ask for help

Malware experts from Kaspersky Lab have asked the programming community for help identifying the programming language, compiler or framework that was ...

Article | 9/03/2012 Bug hunter hacks Chrome at CanSecWest; earns top reward from Google

During Google's Pwnium contest at the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver on Wednesday, Russian bug hunter Sergey Glazunov demonstrated a Chro...

Article | 8/03/2012 DDoS botnet clients start integrating the Apache Killer exploit

The latest version of a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) bot called Armageddon integrates a relatively new exploit known as Apache Killer, DDoS mi...

Article | 7/03/2012 LulzSec leader's digital trail led rival hackers and possibly FBI to him

The disclosure Tuesday by U.S. authorities that Sabu, the former leader of prominent hacker group LulzSec, is a 28-year-old man from New York City nam...

Article | 7/03/2012 Iranian nuclear program used as lure in Flash-based targeted attacks

A new targeted email attack is exploiting interest in the Iranian nuclear program to trick people into opening booby-trapped Word documents that explo...

Article | 7/03/2012 30,000 WordPress blogs infected to distribute rogue antivirus software

Almost 30,000 WordPress blogs have been infected in a new wave of attacks orchestrated by a cybercriminal gang whose primary goal is to distribute rog...