Early today, Kaspersky Lab discovered a new ongoing spam campaign on Twitter. Hundreds of compromised accounts are currently spamming malicious links, hosted on .TK and .tw1.su domains, leading to Rogue Anti Virus softwares. (more…)
McAfee has confirmed that incremental DAT 6682 may trigger message scan failures and a system crash in GroupShield Exchange (MSME), GroupShield Domino, and McAfee Email Gateway 7 (MEG). McAfee recommends that customers do NOT upload DAT 6682.
Please be sure to check for updates at https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=KB70380
By now the eternal debate will have come on to the radars of even the most non-geeky types, and those who still don’t have a position on it – normally a passionate and unwavering one – are fast becoming extinct. Last week of course the ongoing debate was seriously influenced by news of the Flashfake botnet for Mac OS X. It seems that cybercriminals are now joining the large numbers of users migrating from PC to Mac…
Why/what/who/how? Read on… (more…)
You may have seen a few headlines this week noting that Office 2007 was exiting the free support phase this week, and moving into the “Extended” (paid) support period.
Actually Microsoft quietly gave Office 2007 (with Service Pack 3) an extension. Instead of moving into the Extended Support phase on April 9, as was the original plan, Office 2007 now moves to Extended on October 9, 2012. Extended support for the product ends on October 10, 2017. (more…)
For years, Mac users have been told that not only are they cooler than their PC counterparts, they are safer too. Apple has always held that computer viruses and malware only dogged its competitors.
That is no longer the case. (more…)
This week is Spring Severe Weather Week. Can your business survive a major weather incident?
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Virus Bulletin updated its spam filter test, and found that compared to last year, spam filters are doing worse. (more…)
Microsoft rolled out six patches addressing seven vulnerabilities on Tuesday, including a critical hole in Windows’ Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) – the same component exploited by the Morto worm in August. (more…)
The following domain name registration scam has been making rounds at least for a couple of years. Its longevity suggests that it remains effective at separating the victims from their money. The scam’s email messages usually begin with the phrase: (more…)
