Lucian Constantin - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Lucian Constantin

Article | 18/02/2013 Germany probes labor practices at Amazon contractor

A TV report into the lives of migrant workers employed at Amazon.com distribution centers in Germany has prompted the government to call for an invest...

Article | 14/02/2013 Certificate Authorities form group to push for better certificate-revocation checking

Several Certificate Authorities (CAs) have formed an advocacy group called the Certificate Authority Security Council (CASC), which will focus on prom...

Article | 14/02/2013 Adobe confirms zero-day exploit bypasses Adobe Reader sandbox

A recently found exploit that bypasses the sandbox anti-exploitation protection in Adobe Reader 10 and 11 is highly sophisticated and is probably part...

Article | 13/02/2013 Emergency Alert System devices vulnerable to hacker attacks, researchers say

Devices used by many radio and TV stations to broadcast emergency messages as part of the U.S. Emergency Alert System (EAS) contain critical vulnerabi...

Article | 13/02/2013 Zero-day PDF exploit affects Adobe Reader 11 and earlier versions, researchers say

Researchers from security firm FireEye claim that attackers are actively using a remote code execution exploit that works against the latest versions ...

Article | 12/02/2013 Adobe releases patches for Flash Player and Shockwave Player

Adobe released security updates for Flash Player and Shockwave Player on Tuesday in order to address a total of 19 vulnerabilities affecting the two p...

Article | 12/02/2013 DaVinci surveillance malware distributed via zero-day Flash Player exploit, researchers say

Political activists from the Middle East were targeted in attacks that exploited a previously unknown Flash Player vulnerability to install a so-calle...

Article | 12/02/2013 McAfee enhances its business security management and SIEM products

McAfee is enhancing its business security platform by adding near real-time querying capabilities to its ePolicy Orchestrator software and by integrat...

Article | 11/02/2013 Mega: Bug bounty program resulted in seven vulnerabilities fixed so far

One week after launching a security bug bounty program, the new file-storage and sharing service Mega claims to have fixed seven vulnerabilities, none...

Article | 8/02/2013 Critical vulnerability in cURL library could affect large number of applications

A critical buffer overflow vulnerability patched this week in the widely used open-source cURL library (libcurl) has the potential to expose a large n...

Article | 8/02/2013 Banking malware returns to basics to evade detection, Trusteer says

Financial malware authors are trying to evade new online banking security systems by returning to more traditional phishing-like credential stealing t...

Article | 7/02/2013 New Whitehole exploit toolkit emerges on the underground market

A new exploit kit called Whitehole has emerged on the underground market, providing cybercriminals with one more tool to infect computers with malware...

Article | 6/02/2013 Barracuda Networks takes further steps to close backdoor access to its network gear

Barracuda Networks released a new update on Monday to further mitigate a security issue that could have allowed attackers to gain unauthorized access ...

Article | 6/02/2013 Researchers devise new attack techniques against SSL

The developers of many SSL libraries are releasing patches for a vulnerability that could potentially be exploited to recover plaintext information, s...

Article | 5/02/2013 Bad Kaspersky antivirus update prevents business and home users from accessing websites

A faulty antivirus update issued by Kaspersky Lab on Monday left many of its home and business customers unable to access any websites on their comput...