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Spammers Bless New Pope with Spam

With the amount of media coverage surrounding this year’s papal conclave and inauguration, it’s hardly a surprise that cybercriminals have taken advantage of this event to victimize users. We recently spotted spam that use newly-elected Pope Francis as the subject.

These email messages use the new pope and controversies surrounding the Catholic Church to pique the …

AVG CodeWord: Update – Apple Mac OS X

Apple provides users of its OS X operating system with a Software Update feature which is run at defined intervals, but which may be accessed manually at any time by visiting the (?) menu and selecting Software Update.

If you have set your Software Update preferences to run weekly then you see a list of …

OSX.Flashback Rises on Java Vulnerability

Recent media reports about the OSX.Flashback malware have put the size of the botnet at over 600,000. The botnet is believed to have reached this size by using vulnerabilities such as the Oracle Java SE Remote Java Runtime Environment Denial Of Service Vulnerability (CVE-2012-0507, BID 51261) to spread the malware through exploit kits like Blackhole. …

Mac Flashback Trojan: If you use Java the time to patch your Mac is now

If you are a Mac user and you have Java installed on your Mac, then right now would be a good time to run Software Update… from the Apple menu to make sure you have installed the latest Java for Mac OS X update. Installing this update will help protect your Mac from a malicious …

New Flashback Variant Changes Tack to Infect Macs

Intego has discovered a new variant of the Flashback malware, Flashback.N, which has been changed since our blog post showing how Flashback used Twitter as a command and control center. This new variant changes the files it installs and their location: the files we specified in our blog post of February 23 are no long …

Adobe Incubates Flash Runtime for Firefox

The Adobe AIR and Adobe Flash Player Incubator program updated their Flash Platform runtime beta program to version 5, delivered as Flash Player version 11.2.300.130. It includes a “sandboxed” version of the 32-bit Flash Player they are calling “Protected Mode for Mozilla Firefox on Windows 7 and Windows Vista systems”. It has been over …

lastest-skype-updates.com spam

Here’s a spam with a twist.

From: Skype.com skype@[spammer's email redacted for legal reasons] Reply-To: newsletter@skype-systems.com Date: 29 September 2011 07:23 Subject: New Updates Have Been Released For Skype ! Download Now‏

This is to notify that new updates have been released for Skype.

http://www.lastest-skype-updates.com/

Following are major new features :

* Up to 5-way …

Fake Firefox update email – don’t click, or you may have your passwords stolen

Although we see some very sneaky social engineering tricks used by scammers and cybercriminals on occasions, designed to trick users into making unwise decisions, we also see some very basic attempts at online crime.

Take, for instance, this email which was spammed out this weekend pretending to be an advisory about a new update to …

Apple Updates QuickTime for Leopard, Fixing 14 Bugs

Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard may be on its last legs, but Apple has released a security update for QuickTime for Leopard, fixing 14 security flaws. All of them involve viewing maliciously crafted images, videos or web sites, or playing certain types of audio files. QuickTime 7.7 for Leopard is a 69 MB download, and …

Apple fixes a security vulnerability in iOS

Apple released iOS 4.2.10/4.3.5 Software Update for iPhones, iPad and iPod touch as update through iTunes.

This update addresses a single vulnerability through which an attacker with a privileged network position may capture or modify data in sessions protected by SSL/TLS. Apple describes in a knowledge base article, that the problem occurrs because of an …

Could hackers set fire to your Apple battery with a virus?

Could hackers set fire to your Apple battery with a virus? Some recent news stories seem to suggest that they might.

One uncompromising headline certainly implies that battery-based malware – whether inferno-related or not – is an inevitability, trumpeting proudly that “Apple laptop batteries are the new attack vector.”

That remains to be seen, as …

Apple’s iWork Update Features Security Fixes for Numbers and Pages

Apple has issued updates to its iWork applications, Numbers and Pages, adding full support for Lion for all three applications (Keynote, Numbers and Pages), and adding two new themes to Keynote. In addition, there are there security fixes in the updates, two for Numbers, to deal with maliciously crafted Excel files, and one in Pages, …

Safari update patches many vulnerabilities

Apple released new versions of the Safari browser for Windows and MacOS.

Safari 5.1 for Mac OS X v10.6.8 or later, Windows 7, Vista, XP and Safari 5.0.6 for Mac OS X v10.5.8 are now available and address a multitude of vulnerabilities and bugs. Some of these vulnerabilities allow cross site scripting attacks, may lead …

Apple pushes out critical Java security update for OS X users

Are you a Mac user who’s ever gone looking online for what Oracle calls the Java Platform – either the JRE (runtime environment) or the JDK (development kit)?

You’ll have noticed what seems at first to be a glaring omission:

You can download the latest updates for Linux, Solaris and Windows – and even …