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  • Anti-spam products do well in VB testing

    VB announces anti-spam certification results. Virus Bulletin has announced that 12 products earned VBSpam awards in its latest round of comparative anti-spam testing. A total of 14 products took part in the test, with two achieving the highest level Platinum certification, while nine earned Gold awards and one achieved Silver certification. The Platinum awards were…

  • Kaspersky website suffers SQL vulnerability

    Hackers gain access to tables, no user data stolen. A security flaw in a local website of security firm Kaspersky Lab was spotted by hackers over the weekend, with an SQL infection attack potentially leading to exposure of customer details. No details were in fact extracted from the vulnerable databases, and the flaw was quickly…

  • File encryption blackmail scam returns

    Kaspersky warns of new and nasty data-ransom trojan. Malware analysts at Kaspersky Lab have warned of the return of the ‘Gpcoder’ trojan, a nasty piece of ‘ransomware’ which encrypts victims’ files and demands money for the decryption key. Previous outbreaks of the scam, seen sporadically since the first appearance of such nasties in 2004, have…

  • Legitimate program becomes trojan downloader

    Website of FlashGet attacked; malicious ‘update’ automatically downloaded. By hacking into the website of popular Windows download manager FlashGet , cybercriminals have managed to turn the software into a trojan-downloader. Like many programs, FlashGet regularly connects to its developer’s website to see if there are any updates to be installed. However, attackers have managed to…

  • One in four consider online banking unsafe

    Virus Bulletin finds that one in four users consider online banking to be unsafe, but manage their accounts online regardless, while 50% of users consider online banking to be risk free. In a survey of more than 370 visitors to www.virusbtn.com – many of whom are security professionals – a mere 23% of users said…

  • Kaspersky teams up with Bit9

    Whitelisting knowledgebase to be used in future security products. A strategic partnership has been announced between Kaspersky Labs and application control specialist Bit9 . The deal will allow Kaspersky , best known for the excellent response times and detection rates in its anti-malware products, to integrate data from Bit9 ‘s sizeable database of file information,…

  • Kaspersky fixes serious vulnerability in Online Scanner

    Exploitable ActiveX control replaced in new version. Kaspersky Lab has released an updated version of its popular free online scanner to remedy a vulnerability in an ActiveX control used by the scanning system. The format string flaw, in the ‘kavwebscan’ ActiveX control, could be exploited by a malicious web page to cause a buffer overflow…

  • AOL quietly drops free-to-all AV offering

    Gratis software now for members only, old users may be at risk. A month ago we reported on AOL ‘s switch of providers for its free anti-virus software offering, from the Kaspersky -powered Active Virus Shield to a special version of McAfee ‘s VirusScan . It now appears that the McAfee -based product is only…

  • Kaspersky-Zango case heralded as groundbreaking

    Judge sets precedent upholding users’ rights to block badware. A lawsuit brought by adware-pusher Zango against Kaspersky Lab was dismissed last week, with the judge in the case finding that software could offer users the option to block anything that could be considered inappropriate or undesirable. The decision could set an important precedent for the…

  • Kaspersky shuffles structure ready for IPO

    Corporate reshaping prepares company for floatation. Russian security experts Kaspersky Lab have announced the setting up of a board of directors to run the company, as a step along the road to market floatation. While the people at the top of the company remain largely unchanged – Natalya Kasperksy has become Chairman of the Board,…