Category: blog
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AV-Test.org unveils latest certifications
Q2 test results covering 22 products released. Independent testing body AV-Test.org has released the results of its latest round of testing, putting 22 of the latest security suites through a barrage of measures covering detection rates, real-world protection measures, performance and false positive testing and much more besides. Sixteen of the products taking part met…
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Rogue Twitter application steals passwords
‘See who stalks my Twitter’ used to lure users. A malicious Twitter application is currently spreading on the microblogging network, luring users to hand over their passwords, supposedly so they can see who is ‘stalking’ them on the site. At first glance, the page where the application (dubbed ‘StalkTrak’) asks to be authorized may look…
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Hotmail beefs up security with stricter password policy
‘My friend has been spammed’ button also welcomed by experts. Microsoft ‘s free webmail service Hotmail has introduced some new features which should make it less likely for its users’ accounts to be hacked, and which also enable users to tell the company when a friend’s account has been hacked. One of the new features…
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Trojan uses remote user account to control compromised machine
Malware targets customers of Brazilian banks. Researchers at Kaspersky have discovered a piece of malware aimed at customers of Brazilian banks which creates a remote user account to enable attackers to take full control of the compromised machine. The malware is spread via an email that poses as an update to Flash Player . Although…
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Latest VBSpam certification results published
Latest VBSpam results published – full report now also available. The results of the July VBSpam comparative review have been announced. The 14th VBSpam test showed both a number of excellent performances as well as some that leave room for improvement. The pass/fail results can now be viewed (free of charge) here . The full…
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Zitmo trojan for Android defeats two-factor authentication
Malware intercepts TANs sent via SMS. A new variant of the Zitmo trojan has been discovered that infects mobile devices running the Android platform and which intercepts SMS messages from banks sending mobile TAN numbers, thus potentially defeating two-factor authentication. Two-factor authentication is used by many banks to prevent a customer’s online banking account being…
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Google delists all .co.cc domains from its index
Large fraction of sites deemed ‘spammy or low-quality’. Google has removed all sites running on subdomains of .co.cc from its search engine index as the company believes too large a fraction of them are used for spam or are otherwise of low quality. co.cc uses the top-level domain of the Australian territory of the Cocos…
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International co-operation leads to scareware arrests
ChronoPay co-founder arrested for DDoS attacks on rivals. Last week, Russian authorities arrested Pavel Vrublevsky, co-founder of ChronoPay , Russia’s largest processor of online payments, for performing a DDoS attack on the company’s rivals. Based on leaked emails, security researchers believe Vrublevsky and his company are also behind prominent rogue online pharmacy programs as well…
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VB100 for Windows Server 2008 results published
Latest VB100 results published – full report now also available. The results of the VB100 comparative review on Windows Server 2008 R2 have been announced. This month’s test brought highs and lows for the VB test team – some excellent detection rates were tempered by some unruly and uncooperative behaviour. The pass/fail results can now…