Yet another worm that infects removable drives was discovered. The Win32/SillyAutorun.FTW was recently found in the wild. The worm is written with Microsoft Visual Studio and uses injection engine – worm’s code overwrites the original code in memory. When it runs on infected machine, it firstcopies itself to %ApplicationData%\E-73473-3674-74335\msnrsmsn.exe; where %ApplicationData% is application data folder […]
For the last two weeks, the media in Sydney, Australia, have been fascinated with a police investigation into a most peculiar crime committed in one of Sydney’s most prestigious suburbs. If you’ve heard the name of the victim, Madeleine Pulver, you’ve probably heard the story behind the crime. Imagine the scene. Pulver is a final-year […]
Customers of cloud-based file storing-and-sharing company Dropbox should check on the data they’ve entrusted to the service, following the company’s admission that it messed up its access controls earlier today. Unlike the majority of data breaches we’ve reported on lately – where usernames and passwords were stolen, allowing attackers and miscreants to access other people’s […]
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