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Monthly Archive for June, 2008

TGV Malaysia website hacked with SQL injection

TGV Malaysia hacked with SQL injection

Just when you thought you’ve seen the end of hacked cinema’s website (refering to Malaysia’s GSC website), another one surfaces at TGV.com.my just about 3 months later. According to SANS Internet Storm center, this type of SQL injection uses SQL commands to attack the “sysobject” and “syscolumn” in the database and particularly a website that uses Active Server Pages(ASP).

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Malware Search Trend on Google

Malware Search Trend on Google
Google offers one of the best search engine results on the planet! Here’s something interesting, one of Google’s Lab product is Google Trends. It allows anyone to take a look at what are the most popular searched terms. You can also start by typing in terms and Google will beautifully display it in a graph form.

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Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2009 Preview

Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2009 Preview

Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2009 and Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 was released earlier this month but there is no word of such release on their press center. However, a big promotional banner showing boxes of the new releases with a football field as a backdrop indicating that Kaspersky is trying to ride along the EURO 2008 football season tipped us off about the released. Today we will be taking a preview of the Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2009 which spots a whole new graphic user interface (GUI). Cool!!

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New Gpcode variant encrypts at 1024-bits key

Gpcode strikes with a 1024-bit encryptor

According to Kaspersky Lab (June 5, 2008), the new Virus.Win32.Gpcode.ak variant is said to take your personal files hostage by encrypting them with a 1024-bit key, a huge upgrade from the previous Gpcode variant which was using a 660-bit key.

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Bitdefender GameSafe Anti-virus for gamers!

Bitdefender Gamesafe Anti-virus for gamers!

How would you like an anti-virus software which is specially made for gamers? Bitdefender GameSafe was launched last month to specifically target the gaming community.

One of the very troublesome matter faced by gamers are pop-up appearing during a game causing a full-screen game window to minimize. Pop-ups ranging from virus update definitions, firewall permission/blocked alert and to virus found alerts frequently disturbs the gamer from enjoying the full quality of a game.

According to Bitdefender’s GameSafe press release “A system slow-down can have a life or death consequences in the virtual world. GameSafe keeps the impact on processing power, memory and virtual memory to a minimum, allowing gamers to maintain “in-game” responsiveness and eliminating interruptions during play.”

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