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Google Toolbar error opens the PC door for hackers
Security researcher Aviv Raff recommends that Google Toolbar users avoid adding new buttons to the toolbar or they will be infected with malicious code.
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Multimedia applications with dangerous errors
Security researchers warn that Microsoft and AOL's multimedia software has a number of deadly security flaws that could be exploited by hackers to hijack Internet users'…
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2007 - boom year of malicious code
Security firm F-Secure said in 2007 that it was a boom year of malicious code. The number of malicious code detected this year is equivalent to the total number of 20 ye…
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QuickTime bug threatens XP, Vista
The hacked code of a deadly security bug that has not been fixed in Apple's QuickTime application has recently been released online. Mr. Krystian Kloskowski - a very rep…
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The US tried to steal data of 250,000 computers
The Los Angeles court is in the process of adjudicating a case of a hacker spreading a virus that has infected 250,000 computers and stolen the user's bank account acces…
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Austria allows use of Trojans to track criminals
Austria has become the first country in the world to allow the use of Trojan malicious code to monitor PC of suspected criminals or terrorists.
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Win XP, Yahoo Messenger stick a dangerous error
Recently, there are more deadly security bugs in Yahoo Messenger and MSN Messenger discovered. Users of these instant messaging services face the risk of being targeted…
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Windows threatening Kodak software error
Hackers have just launched a malicious Internet attack on an extremely dangerous security vulnerability that exists in some versions of the Windows operating system.
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Hackers distribute malicious code to attack Reader, Acrobat
Security firm Symantec said that just a few hours after Adobe released a security patch for PDF Reader and Acrobat, the bug was released to the Internet.
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Hackers spread malicious code to attack Word
Not long after Microsoft released a monthly update that fixed security flaws in software products, hackers immediately released malicious code to attack those errors. Th…
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Online video is used to spread malicious code
When traditional forms of malicious code are becoming less effective, hackers are forced to seek new forms of distribution. One of them is to embed malicious code into o…
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Google service has a dangerous security error
Within two days, a series of Google online services were found to have extremely dangerous security errors.
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Hackers taking advantage of Yahoo Right Media spread Trojan
Yahoo's online advertising network Right Media suddenly became a hacker's ally, helping them spread millions of banner ads infected with Trojan on a series of websites,…
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The US website contains 63% of the malicious code
The US website is the source of archiving and spreading a huge amount of malicious code on the Internet. The trend of cybercrime today is to increase the spread of malic…
