If you haven't updated your Adobe Reader program lately, now would be a good time. Three days after the company rushed out a critical update, miscreants are actively exploiting a security flaw to execute malicious code on vulnerable machines.
19:18 Rigged PDFs exploiting just-patched Adobe Reader flawJust three days after Adobe shipped a patch with fixes for a critical Adobe Reader vulnerability, hackers are using booby-trapped PDF files to fire exploits against Windows users.
[ SEE: Heads up: Patch your Adobe Reader now ]
The in-the-wild attacks, first spotted by the SANS Internet Storm Center, follows the public release of proof-of-concept exploits at [...] >>>
17:06 Highly critical vulnerabilities in VLC media playerA pair of “highly critical” vulnerabilities in the cross-platform VLC Media Player could put millions of users at risk of remote code execution attacks, according to a warning from security researchers.
The issues, reported in versions 0.5.0 through 0.9.5, could let hackers take complete control of compromised machines through rigged media files. VideoLAN, the open-source group [...] >>>
06:54 Off the wire: Video - Lavasoft and the antispyware industryIn this video, Lavasoft CEO Jason King offers a brief history of Lavasoft and its role in the antispyware industry, the growth of the company, the shift in the marketplace as well as details on the ne... >>>
01:45 Obama community blog redirecting to malwareHot on the heels of yesterday’s Obama-related spam campaign comes the discovery that attackers are redirecting people from an official Barack Obama website to malware when they search for anti-virus to address the threat.
During the course of follow-up research on the Obama malware blast, Sascha Siekmann, a Support Engineer at Cloudmark (disclosure), discovered that [...] >>>
Police say they've caught the armored truck robber who craftily recruited a crowd of unwitting, identically-dressed accomplices on Craigslist to serve as decoys for his getaway.
