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Wikipedia ads could mean you’re infected with malware!

Published May 16, 2012

According to Threatpost, the Wikimedia Foundation is warning its millions of visitors that if they're seeing ads appearing on any of the Foundation's Web sites, then their computer is probably infected with malware. The Foundation issued a statement on Monday clarifying that it never runs ads on the Web site for Wikipedia, the massive, crowd-sourced encyclopedia. Visitors who are seeing ads for for-profit firms have likely been the victim of a Web based attack, including malicious browser…Read more

Microsoft Patch Tuesday addresses 23 vulnerabilities

Published May 10, 2012

This week, Microsoft released seven bulletins fixing twenty-three vulnerabilities on Patch Tuesday. Three of the bulletins are rated as ‘critical,’ which could lead to remote code execution, whereas the remaining four are rated as ‘important.’ The first critical bulletin resolves a privately reported bug in Microsoft Office through which an attacker could remotely execute code after the user opens a specially crafted RTF file. The second patch resolves three publicly disclosed bugs and…Read more

Protect yourself from DNSChanger

Published May 10, 2012

As part of Operation Ghost Click, the FBI brought down an Estonian hacker ring last year, which resulted in the takeover of the rogue DNS servers. Now, the Internet Systems Consortium is gearing up to permanently shut down deployed DNS servers that are currently serving as temporary surrogates for confiscated rogue DNS servers. As of last month, 84,000 U.S. computers still used the “pwned” servers put up for the FBI by the Internet Systems Consortium. Those servers must be taken down July…Read more

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