It didn’t take long before cybercriminals seized the opportunity to use
the death of actress Brittany Murphy to peddle malware in search engine optimization poisoning. Read the full article. [Help Net Security]
Nullsoft has released version 5.57 of Winamp, the popular media player, closing several critical vulnerabilities that could be exploited to compromise a user’s system and fixing a number of bugs. Read the full article. [The H Security]
Adobe chose to wait until mid-January to
patch a critical PDF bug because issuing an emergency update would have
disrupted its quarterly security update schedule, the company said
today. Read the full article. [Computerworld]
The PHP developers have released version 5.2.12 of their popular programming language, fixing over 60 bugs mainly to increase stability, but also closing some security holes. Read the full article. [The H Security]
Microblogging site Twitter went offline for
a while Friday after hackers calling themselves the Iranian Cyber Army
apparently managed to change DNS records, redirecting traffic to
another Web page. Read the full article. [Computerworld]
Dennis Fisher and Ryan Naraine talk with Brad Arkin, Adobe’s director of product security and privacy, about the new zero-day flaws in Acrobat and Reader, Adobe’s security response process and the challenges of getting updates to end users.
Version 2.1 of the Cloud Security Alliance’s “Guidance for Critical Areas of Focus in Cloud Computing” provides more concise and actionable guidance across all
domains, and encompasses knowledge gained from real world deployments
over the past six months. Read the full article. [Help Net Security]
A Chinese court Wednesday sentenced 11 members of a malware ring for writing and distributing Trojan horse viruses meant to steal online game account passwords, according to state media. Read the full article. [IDG News Service]
Web servers, FTP servers, and even SSL servers
are becoming prime targets for botnet operators, not as command and
control servers or as pure zombies, but more as a place to host their
malicious code and files, or in some cases to execute high-powered spam
runs. Read the full article. [Dark Reading]
ISPs in Russia and Ukraine are home to some of the highest concentrations of customers whose machines are infected with the Conficker worm, shows data from the Shadowserver Foundation. Read the full article. [Washington Post]
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