Phil Muncaster, V3.co.uk , Sunday 3 January 2010 at 08:45:00 A look ahead to the biggest threats next year, including botnets and mobile malware The security landscape is a complex, multi-layered one that changes more subtly and indefinitely than the seasons. It is therefore hard to predict security trends with any degree of certainty. That said, by looking back at the security developments of …
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-->SpyZooka, an antispyware program created by BluePenguin Software, has been removing fake antispyware like PCsProtector from infected systems since 2004. SpyZooka’s finely tuned algorithms are so effective at eliminating spyware and other security threats that the award-winning software has become the recognized leader in the antispyware industry. SpyZooka is a member of the Better Business …
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-->Revision Note: V1.1 (March 10, 2010): Restated the mitigation concerning the e-mail vector. Added a new workaround for disabling the peer factory class in iepeers.dll. Advisory Summary:Microsoft is investigating new, public reports of a vulnerability in Internet Explorer 6 and Internet Explorer 7. Our investigation has shown that the latest version of the browser, Internet Explorer 8, is not affected. The main impact of the vulnerability is remote code execution. This advisory contains information about which versions of Internet Explorer are vulnerable as well as workarounds and mitigations for this issue.
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This post was written by Ted on March 10, 2010
-->Cloud-hosted malware, bot blasts, compromised smartphones, and privacy-busting malvertising are a few of the security pitfalls we can expect this year.
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-->The Financial Times reported on Monday that U.S. government analysts believe a Chinese man with government links wrote the key part of a spyware program that was used in online attacks on Google last year.
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