A malicious iframe exploit is currently being loaded by thousands of sites all over the Internet according the Scansafe blog.
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The security holes in Flash and Reader we wrote about earlier have now been fixed by the latest update from Adobe. The update will solve no less than twelve security issues, ten of them are labelled as critical and can be used by hackers to take control of user's computers.
The vulnerability affect [...] Continue Reading
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According to the Danish security company Secunia as many as 92 percent of all Windows users to be harmed a serious security hole in Adobe Flash. Adobe has announced that it will not have an update ready before Thursday! Users can follow some instructions found on Adobes web site to protect themselves while waiting for [...] Continue Reading
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The virus attacks the computers by older versions of Adobe Reader and Adobe Flash. When a computer has been infected the Google search engine is then affected, whose results quietly redirects to sites that then steal information from your own computer. The aim is to obtain information, for example bank accounts and credit card numbers.
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Finnish F-Secure is recommending people to stop using Adobe Reader due to
all security vulnerability in that software lately.
This year over 47% of all direct attacks have been using security problems
in Adobes softwares according to Mikko Hyppönen from F-Secure. His advice
is to completely stop using Adobe Reader and instead switch to some other
reader. There are plenty [...] Continue Reading
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One of the largest bot networks today is Srizbi which will turn your computer into a zombie that wil flood Internet with spam. According to Marshal Trace the network has increased it's spamming from about 3% of all spam to 9.9%.
The thing with this network is that it's tricking it's victims to install the bad [...] Continue Reading
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First is Symantec reporting about a vulnerability in Adobes Flash that may be causing over 200,000 sites to be in danger, then a few days later Symantec is reporting that they may have made a mistake.
An old version of Flash (version 9.0.115.0) contained the bug causing problems for players with that version, but the [...] Continue Reading
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