It’s no secret to anyone who has been paying attention that Adobe Reader and Acrobat have become prime targets for attackers in the last year or so, but new research shows just how dramatic the increase has been in the number of high-risk vulnerabilities identified in Adobe products recently.
In a report being released today, Google said that between January 2009
and the end of January 2010 it found
some 11,000 malicious or hacked Web pages that attempted to foist fake
anti-virus on visitors. Read the full article. [KrebsonSecurity]
The passwords of customers on Splunk.com were revealed after some debug
information leaked on to its production servers. The debug code exposed
users passwords to Splunk.com as clear text, the company said. Read the full article. [The Register]
The clever hacking of online advertisements has quietly grown into a
multi-million dollar criminal industry showing no signs of slowing. The big losers: online advertisers. Read the full article. [The Last Watchdog]
A malicious spam email campaign has been targeting iPad users who own
PCs, says researchers. Read the full article. [Help Net Security]
Faced with stricter Internet security measures like CAPTCHAS, some spammers have begun
borrowing a page from corporate America’s playbook: they are
outsourcing. Read the full article. [The New York Times]
Blippy users recently got a taste of the social media fad’s dark side when simple Google searches turned up 127 transactions that included credit card numbers of four users. Read the full article. [The Register]
VideoLAN has released a security advisory to address multiple vulnerabilities in the VLC Media Player. These vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial-of-service condition.
Security experts in Hong Kong last week succeeded in taking down a key
component of the Koobface bonnet, only to witness the system popping up
in China. Read the full article. [The Register]
A hacker named Kirllos has a rare deal for anyone who wants to spam, steal or scam on Facebook: an unprecedented number of user accounts offered at rock-bottom prices. Read the full article. [IDG News Service]
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