Sunnyvale (ip-192.com): Symantec has updated its Protection Suite aimed at Small and Medium Businesses (SMB). The new Advanced Business Edition bridges the gap between endpoint security and backup- and recovery and hooks into Symantec's cloud-based Global Intelligence Network to provide early threat warnings and automatic backups. It will provide SMBs with endpoint and messaging security [...]
IE 6 and 7: New zero-day exploit
March 11, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Redmond (ip-192.com): A new Internet Explorer zero-day exploit has been published on the web. Microsoft says that it did already receive reports that hackers try to exploit the vulnerability with targeted attacks. The exploit can be found in IE 6 and IE 7. "Our investigation so far has shown that Internet Explorer 8 and Internet [...]
800,000 Personal Records Compromised
March 4, 2010 By 1 Comment
Madrid (ip-192.com): Personal details relating to 800,000 were found on a computer after the Spanish police arrested three ringleaders connected to a botnet called Mariposa, the Spanish word for butterfly (ip-192.com reported here). The botnet controlling almost 13 million people did have enough power to bring down the IT-infrastructure of a whole country, said the [...]
Mariposa botnet taken down
March 3, 2010 By 2 Comments
Madrid (ip-192.com): Computers in more than half of the Fortune 1,000 companies and at least 40 big financial institutions were infected with a virus that stole credit card numbers and other data. The Mariposa botnet, the Spanish word for butterfly, controlled more than 13 million PC’s in 190 countries. The Spanish police arrested the masterminds [...]
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