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  • Botnets becoming more robust

    Zeus botnet used Amazon’s in-the-cloud service to control bots. New reports by MessageLabs and McAfee show that botherders have learned a lesson following the take-down of McColo in November last year . McColo was a rogue ISP that was taken down after security researchers gathered evidence of suspicious activities on the provider’s network, with the…

  • SQL attack hacks wide range of sites

    CA among victims of major attack linking sites to malware. Huge numbers of legitimate websites – perhaps as many as 100,000 according to some reports – fell victim to hackers over the last couple of weeks thanks to SQL injection problems leaving sites vulnerable. The hacks redirect traffic to sites in China, where click-fraud is…

  • CA struck by vulnerability

    CAB handling issue affects swathe of products. Two flaws related to the handling of CAB archive files by the CA anti-virus engine have been reported, rendering products across CA ‘s range vulnerable exploitation allowing remote access to affected systems. One flaw is a buffer overflow caused by excessively long filenames within CAB archives, while the…

  • Latest flaws affect AV giants

    Symantec, McAfee and CA all patch vulnerabilities. Three of the biggest names in the security sector, McAfee , Symantec and CA , have all revealed details of flaws in their software which have been discovered and patched in recent months. The most severe vulnerability was suffered by a wide range of McAfee products, including its…