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That package at the Royal Mail office? It’s malware

18

Oct

2011

Cybercriminals have spammed out malware, posing as an email from the Royal Mail. The emails, which claim that a package has been returned to the Royal Mail office, pretend to come from official-sounding addresses such as customer@royalmail.com or customer_service@royalmail.com. Opening the attached file could lead to your Windows computer being infected by a Trojan horse. […]

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How fast fingerprinting of OLE2 files can lead to efficient malware detection

13

Oct

2011

At last week’s Virus Bulletin 2011 conference Paul Baccas and Stephen Edwards from SophosLabs presented their research paper “Fast fingerprinting of OLE2 files: Heuristics for detection of exploited OLE2 files based on specification non-conformance”. They may win the prize for the longest title, but what does it mean? OLE2 is a container format synonymous with […]

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Apple releases OS X 10.7.2 and iOS 5 with enormous security patch

13

Oct

2011

Apple have released updated versions of OS X Lion (10.7.2), Snow Leopard (Security Update 2011-006), iOS (5), Numbers for iOS (1.5) and Pages for iOS (1.5) to resolve numerous security issues. Beginning with OS X 10.7.2/Security Update 2011-006 for OS X 10.6 there are 75 known vulnerabilities that are fixed with these updates. Most could […]

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