At the end of March, I first wrote about Bitcoin, a virtual cryptocurrency with no central management by design. When I wrote about it, you could buy a single bitcoin for about 80 cents. Since then, the value of a bitcoin has skyrocketed to $30USD and stabilized around $16USD as more services and merchants are starting to accept the currency and speculation puts the currency in … [Read more...]
WebGL In The News For Security Concerns in Firefox 4 and IE9
The Mozilla Security Blog announced yesterday that there is a security concern with WebGL in Mozilla Firefox 4. It could allow attackers to capture screenshots of a visitors browser, including private information. The problem is specific to Firefox's implementation of WebGL, not a vulnerability in WebGL itself. A fix will be included in the next update to Firefox, which is … [Read more...]
Adobe Releases Quarterly Updates for Flash Player, Shockwave, LiveCycle, ColdFusion, Acrobat, and Reader
Adobe just flooded the Internet with patches for some of their top products: Adobe Flash Player Shockwave Player LiveCycle and BlazeDS ColdFusion Acrobat and Adobe Reader This bring Acrobat and Reader up to versions 10.1 and introduces the "Protected Mode" that Reader X has been using to Acrobat X. The Protected Mode allowed Adobe Reader to skip a few updates until the … [Read more...]
Watch This CNBC Special Tonight: Code Wars – America’s Cyber Threat
CNBC is airing a special tonight called Code Wars - America's Cyber Threat. It is focusing on subjects like the hacker economy, critical operations, cyber espionage, Estonia's cyber assault, and Stuxnet. In the United States, we are Internet dependent. Our financial systems, power grids, telecommunications, water supplies, flight controls and military communications are all … [Read more...]
Google Search Results Redirecting You To Ads? Receiving Popups? You May Have A Rootkit
Yesterday, a client got infected with some malware after visiting what should have been a safe website. I ran through the usual routine of deleting the malicious files in the Temporary Internet Files folder and scanning with MalwareBytes. The scan found and cleaned up about 8 objects and the annoying scareware was gone upon restarting. Unfortunately, pop-unders were showing up … [Read more...]