Lucian Constantin - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Lucian Constantin

Article | 1/02/2012 Hackers infect WordPress 3.2.1 blogs to distribute TDSS rootkit

Hackers are compromising WordPress 3.2.1 blogs in order to infect their visitors with the notorious TDSS rootkit, according to researchers from Web se...

Article | 31/01/2012 MetaFlows launches low-cost SaaS product that unifies network security

Network security monitoring startup MetaFlows launched a new Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) product that can be installed on low-cost hardware to monito...

Article | 28/01/2012 Facebook scammers redirect victims through Amazon's cloud

Facebook scammers have started redirecting victims through Amazon's cloud in order to bypass malicious URL filters, according to security researchers ...

Article | 28/01/2012 Drive-by-download attack exploits critical vulnerability in Windows Media Player

Security researchers from antivirus vendor Trend Micro have come across a Web-based attack that exploits a known vulnerability in Windows Media Player...

Article | 27/01/2012 Zscaler launches free-to-use URL scanning service

Cloud security vendor Zscaler has launched a new free-to-use online service called <a href="http://zulu.zscaler.com">Zulu</a> that can assess the secu...

Article | 27/01/2012 Symantec recommends disabling pcAnywhere and waiting for security patches

Security vendor Symantec has advised users of its pcAnywhere remote control software to disable it, because hackers with access to the product's sourc...

Article | 26/01/2012 IT pros believe data breach harm assessment is more valuable than victim notification, study says

IT professionals believe that assessing the potential harm caused by data breaches is more useful to mitigating the effects of such incidents than not...

Article | 25/01/2012 Linux vendors rush to patch privilege escalation flaw after root exploits emerge

Linux vendors are rushing to patch a privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux kernel that can be exploited by local attackers to gain root acce...

Article | 25/01/2012 Authorities prepare to close down DNSChanger servers, recommend DNS repair tool

German authorities are advising victims of DNSChanger Trojan programs to fix their computers' Domain Name System settings using a free tool developed ...

Article | 24/01/2012 DreamHost resets customer FTP passwords following database breach

Los Angeles-based Web hosting firm DreamHost reset the FTP and shell access passwords for all of its customers on Friday after detecting unauthorized ...

Article | 21/01/2012 OpenSSL fixes DoS flaw introduced by critical DTLS patch

The OpenSSL Project has released new versions of the popular OpenSSL library in order to address a denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability that was intr...

Article | 21/01/2012 Researchers expose flaws in popular industrial control systems

Researchers showcased unpatched security flaws in software used to control critical industrial systems by oil, gas, water and electrical distribution ...

Article | 20/01/2012 IE URI encoding behavior facilitates XSS attacks, researchers say

An inconsistency in how Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) encodes double quotes in URIs (uniform resource identifiers) can facilitate cross-site scri...

Article | 19/01/2012 Romanian NASA hacker gets a three-year suspended prison sentence

Robert Butyka, a 26-year old Romanian man accused of hacking into multiple NASA servers, received a three-year suspended prison sentence on Tuesday af...

Article | 19/01/2012 Secunia sets six-month deadline for vulnerability disclosures

Vulnerability research firm Secunia <a href="http://secunia.com/blog/292/">announced</a> that, effective from the beginning of the year, software vend...