Damballa Inc. an internet security company based in Georgia - specialized in BotArmies recently discovered a worldwide mega infection of botnets and had given it a name “Kraken“. Botnets are large networks of computers being command and controlled like a zombie. The name was probably derived from which Kraken(a legendary sea monster) is seen infecting more than 400,000 computers more than the current Storm Worm of 200,000 computers.
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April 8, 2008: Adobe posted a critical update - Adobe Flash Player version 9.0.124.0 to address a critical vulnerability in its existing Flash Player version 9.0.115.0 and below which allows an attacker to take control of the affected system. Adobe posted this announcement at their security bulletin under vulnerability identifier APSB08-11. All users are suggested to perform an update a.s.a.p by downloading the latest version 9.0.124.0.
Microsoft has issued an advanced notification for 5 critical updates and 3 important updates which will be available on April 8, 2008. Affected software are Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, and Internet Explorer. The updates fixes several security issues - remote code execution, spoofing, and elevation of privilege. View this month’s Security Bulletin.
Thanks to Abhor Network and Sunbelt for for alerting us about the new Storm activity. The picture of a Joker holding out an April Fool message is trying to lure users into downloading a Storm worm. The link to the Storm website arrives in your mailbox with all sorts of April Fool’s subject headers. Once at the malicious website, it will try to download either a file with name foolsday.exe, funny.exe or kickme.exe. As of now, majority of anti-virus software may not have the signature for this variant - take necessary precaution.
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Believe it or not, the highly anticipated Avast! Anti-virus v4.8 is already available for download - Home Edition and Professional Edition. Both only having a slight features difference but the Professional Edition has the extra protection from the Script Blocker for the web browser.
What’s new in Avast! Anti-virus v4.8?
- Built-in Anti-spyware
- Built-in Anti-rootkit
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