McAfee update cripples thousands of PCs

McAfee update cripples thousands of PCs


McAfee update cripples thousands of PCs

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 06:32 AM PDT

The misidentification of a legitimate Windows file as a virus and its subsequent deletion was what made Windows XP running computers all over the world enter in a continuous circle of rebooting on Wed...

Metasploit Express: Easy-to-use penetration testing

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 06:09 AM PDT

Rapid7 introduced Metasploit Express, a comprehensive penetration testing solution built on the open source Metasploit Framework. Metasploit Express is designed specifically for penetration teste...

Zbot acquires file infection feature

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 05:55 AM PDT

A Zbot Trojan variant that has the ability to infect other files has been discovered recently. It searches for .exe files in predefined places and injects into them 512 bytes of code, altering als...

Spying the spy: How to turn Trojans against criminals

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 05:25 AM PDT

"Researchers do vulnerability research on so many various application, why not to do it on this one?" asked himself Andrzej Dereszowski, founder and director of Signal 11, a Polish firm focused on ana...

TinyIDS: Distributed intrusion detection system

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 05:14 AM PDT

TinyIDS is a distributed Intrusion Detection System (IDS) for Unix systems. It is based on the client/server architecture and has been developed with security in mind. The client, tinyids, collects...

So, you bought a fake AV. What happens next?

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 03:47 AM PDT

A Sunbelt researcher has had the "fortune" of having a relative fall for the scam, which gave him the opportunity to take a peak at the process following the acquisition of the rogue solution. Upo...

Rogue software details: Vistop

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 03:46 AM PDT

Vistop is a rogue security application. In order to remove it, find out what folders and registry entries to look for below. Known system changes: Folders c:\ProgramFiles\vistop Registry e...

Facebook profound privacy concerns

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 03:37 AM PDT

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg may believe that "the age of privacy is over," but users of world's most popular social networking site are actively concerned with protecting their privacy — especial...

Passive Vulnerability Scanner 3.2 released

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 01:03 AM PDT

Tenable Network Security released version 3.2 of the Passive Vulnerability Scanner (PVS), a passive technology that monitors network traffic and provides real-time vulnerability data to Tenable's Secu...

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