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This is a blog related to securing your home computer and protecting your family.
- Added on: Jul 19th, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Paul Dixon
- Listed in: Computer Security Computers
- Tags: kids Parents Security virus hackers online safety
Recent Posts
Koobface variant used for Captcha breaking
A new Koobface variant is currently spreading in the wild. New variants are not unexpected, but these have an unusual feature: Once the malware is installed on the computer, it locks the windows desktop every so often and forces the user to solve a C...
TA09-294A: Oracle Updates for Multiple Vulnerabilities
Original release date: October 21, 2009 Last revised: – Source: US-CERT Systems Affected Oracle Database 11g, version 11.1.0.7 Oracle Database 10g Release 2, versions 10.2.0.3, 10.2.0.4 Oracle Database 10g, version 10.1.0.5 Oracle Data...
Twitter removes Spammers
After posting an article about Twitter Spam recently, some people started to follow my Twitter Feed. One of these users was an obvious spammer though which probably tried to distribute malware. Unfortunately I was too slow in checking what the accoun...
Email malware returns
After last weeks outbreak of spam mails with malware with alleged settings for mail software (which still is ongoing, we still receive a lot of those mails) our analysts see a new bunch of emails which contain a trojan as attachment. These mails come...
Malware-Spam with alleged OWA settings
Our spam traps received a lot of spam emails during the last night which claim to lead to or to include a new settings file for Outlook Web Access (OWA). The mails seem to be sent by the technical staff of the domain and are made up quite well. Thus ...
Adobe fixes Reader and Acrobat
Not only Microsoft released a bunch of patches to close security holes in their products, but also Adobe now ships updated software to fix several vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader and Acrobat which already get attacked with specially prepared PDF docu...
