Personally, I do not use Yahoo Mail, so I can not speak on an individual perspective. But, it appears that there have been many cases where Symantec considers Yahoo Mail a virus threat, even though it really isn’t. This false alarm will probably concern many Yahoo Mail users, so hopefully Symantec will be […]

Just like virtually everything else, tools used for computer support purposes have their fair share of bugs and vulnerabilities. And you can be sure that hackers and malware are taking advantage of every vulnerability they can truly capitalize on. So, next time you are getting remote computer support, just make sure that the […]

Here’s an interesting dilemma: hackers taking advantage of an encryption bug to insert information that will be bypassed by email filters. This is exactly what can occur when it comes to GNU Privacy Guard. Through taking advantage of a bug through the signature, anyone can be able to insert text and the like […]

It all has to do with a specific kind of bug in certain Microsoft Office 2003 Applications. If an attacker wants to crash one of these apps, all they would have to do is design and deliver a specially crafted malformed file to the user. Upon opening the file, the app would crash. […]

The first major Vista vulnerability has been resolved in a patch issued out by Microsoft. The vulnerability was found in Vista’s malware protection engine, which could have been used by hackers and malware alike to compromise the Vista OS. Talk about irony…
“Patch Tuesday,” when Microsoft Corp. releases repairs for problems in its software, […]

Talk about having a false sense of security. While Trend Micro security software has always been a crowd favorite, iDefense has found some security leaks that could lead to some massive repercussions.
Security service provider iDefense has found two vulnerabilities in Trend Micro’s antivirus products that allow attackers to inject arbitrary program code and execute […]

Let’s just get to the point: if you get an email that has an excel spreadsheet attached to it, make sure not to open it. This is how the zero-day attack works. People open the malicious spreadsheet and host malicious Office files on the web so when a user opens them, hackers can […]

Here’s something you don’t hear every day; Microsoft is stating that a speech recognition hack that would supposedly allow people to run commands with administrative privileges is not serious… and security experts seem to be agreeing! I don’t think it’s very common for both Microsoft and security experts to be agreeing on the criticality […]

While Windows Vista is Microsoft’s most secure OS, Internet Explorer is still a problem. Granted, IE7 has definitely changed from its predecessor, but it is still weak in the fact of using a “traditional model”, which is something hackers have been taking advantage of in Internet Explorer for some time now.
Windows Vista may be […]

Yup, its true. Even though this has nothing to do with Windows, I thought it was interesting enough to where it was worth posting. While it has been recently patched, users of Linux-PAM could be able to exploit a vulnerability that would actually outsmart the authentication process. It would be interesting to […]