Thursday, February 9th, 2012 4:00 am

Adobe: Urgent security patch released

Mountain View (ip-192.com): Adobe has released a security fix to patch dangerous security vulnerabilities in its Acrobat and Reader applications. A separate vulnerability in the Flash Player browser plug-in has also been addressed. An Adobe security advisory confirmed last week that hackers used Microsoft Excel files as Trojans to exploit the flaw in Flash Player [...]

Android Market: Infected apps removed

Menlo Park (ip-192.com): Google is cleaning house and has removed 21 malware infected applications from the official Android Marketplace. Hackers did steal the existing applications and added malware that could root phones, steel data, and open backdoors through injected root exploits. While Google acted quickly after learning about the crimeware, the Android Police blogging site [...]

Koobface: Mac, Windows and Linux OS targeted

Sunnyvale (ip-192.com): Users that have Windows, Mac OS X or Linux installed on their computers have to watch out for a new variant of the Koobface worm that is spreading through Facebook, Twitter, Friendster, and MySpace. Antivirus firms say that the worm uses messages with a subject line like "Is this you in the video?" [...]

Malware: Fortune 500 top-targets

Bedford (ip-192.com): Computer networks in 441 Fortune 500 companies had systems accessed by infected machines, RSA reports. The security division of EMC says that advanced forms of malware such as the Zeus Trojan can silently capture a wide variety of data and credentials contained on enterprise computers and laptops, including proprietary information such as legal [...]