Stories by Lucian Constantin

Article | 29/02/2012 Secunia: We don't know how vendors will react to our repackaging their updates
Security firm Secunia expects a reaction from vendors as it plans to repackage security updates for hundreds of applications into its own proprietary ...
Article | 28/02/2012 Malware authors expand use of domain generation algorithms to evade detection
Malware authors are increasingly adopting flexible domain generation algorithms (DGAs) in order to evade detection and prevent their botnets from bein...
Article | 28/02/2012 Imperva: Companies should secure their websites before worrying about DDoS attacks from Anonymous
Organizations that look to protect themselves against attacks launched by the Anonymous hacktivist collective should make sure that their Web applicat...
Article | 25/02/2012 Proposed encrypted media support in HTML5 sparks DRM debate on W3C mailing list
A proposal drafted by Microsoft, Google and Netflix to add support for encrypted media playback in HTML5, has sparked a <a href="http://lists.w3.org/A...
Article | 24/02/2012 Avast Free Antivirus 7 adds cloud updates, file reputation and remote assistance
Avast Free Antivirus 7 is set to be released on Thursday and will have new features including cloud-based updates, remote assistance and file reputati...
Article | 23/02/2012 Symantec: New ZeuS botnet no longer needs central command servers
Cybercriminals are using a modified version of the ZeuS computer Trojan that no longer relies on command and control (C&amp;C) servers for receiving i...
Article | 23/02/2012 Researcher releases exploit code that can allegedly crash pcAnywhere
Exploit code targeting a newly identified vulnerability in Symantec's pcAnywhere computer remote control product has been published on the Internet, e...
Article | 22/02/2012 Researchers defeat video CAPTCHA antispam tests
A team of researchers has devised a method to defeat NuCaptcha, one of the most popular video-based antispam tests on the Internet, and have proposed...
Article | 21/02/2012 Mozilla gives CAs a chance to come clean about certificate policy violations
Mozilla has asked all certificate authorities (CAs) to revoke subordinate CA certificates currently used for corporate SSL traffic management, offerin...
Article | 18/02/2012 The decision to strip online certificate revocation checks from Chrome is misguided, Symantec says
Stripping OCSP (Online Certificate Status Protocol) and CRL (certificate revocation list) checks from Google Chrome could have dangerous implications ...
Article | 17/02/2012 DDoS attackers start targeting IPv6 networks
Cybercriminals have started launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against networks that transmit data over IPv6 (Internet Protocol ve...
Article | 17/02/2012 Waledac malware returns after two years with password-stealing capabilities
A new version of the Waledac malware has been spotted on the Internet, but unlike previous variants, which were mainly used for spamming purposes, thi...
Article | 17/02/2012 Google Chrome update fixes high-severity vulnerabilities and patches Flash Player
Google released a new version of its Chrome browser on Wednesday in order to update the bundled Flash Player plug-in and address serious security vuln...
Article | 15/02/2012 Mozilla will ask all certificate authorities to revoke SSL-spying certificates
Mozilla plans to ask all certificate authorities to review their subordinate CA certificates and revoke those that could be used by companies to inspe...
Article | 14/02/2012 Whistleblowing site Cryptome.org infected with drive-by exploits
Cryptome.org, a website dedicated to disclosing confidential information, was compromised last week and was used to infect PCs running Internet Explor...

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