Reading Time: 2 minutes Criminals are using a new zero day vulnerability in the Adobe Flash Player to conduct drive-by-downloads, infecting unsuspecting web site visitors with malicious software. What is Zero Day Vulnerability? A zero day vulnerability is a previously unknown flaw where there is no patch available and security software have not been updated to deal with. Security…

Reading Time: 2 minutes Oracle released its so call Critical Patch Update yesterday for numerous products and critical flaws that need to be addressed. Of note is a fix for a serious misconfiguration issue in its E-Business Suite product that hackers can use to have full access to databases that may contain confidential data. Vulnerabilities addressed in the E-Business…

Reading Time: 3 minutes Update: check the latest version of Comodo’s free mobile security app .store br{display:none;} Mobile devices are becoming ubiquitous. You can see that every day if you stroll the streets of any city or town, with people talking and texting merrily as they go. The facts support it too, enough to say that we are now…

Reading Time: 2 minutes Twitter hacks have become increasingly common and several high profile hoaxes raise serious questions about Internet Security. On Friday the Twitter accounts of two prominent news organizations, the New York Post and UPI, were hacked and hoax news item sent out. We can happily assure anyone who saw the messages that NO, World War III…

Reading Time: 2 minutes When is a computer virus not a computer virus? When it is Vosteran. It may enter your computer unnoticed and change your browser settings such as your home page and default search engine. It can redirect your URL entries to advertisements that may download malicious software. Technically it is not a virus, but a browser…

Reading Time: 2 minutes One of the most dangerous places on earth maybe your email inbox, considering the number of sophisticated email scams underway. Homeland Security is alerting computer users of two dangerous new ones this week and a third is being reported in the press. Email phishing is a technique used by criminal hackers to trick victims into…

Reading Time: 2 minutes The problem with conventional antivirus software is that they are like a bomb disposal unit that has not yet figured out where the bomb is. They have to find the bomb to defuse it. Even worse, if the bomb goes off before it is detected the surroundings are unprotected! If the bomb disposal unit knows…

Reading Time: 2 minutes This week Mozilla addressed 3 critical security vulnerabilities in the release of Firefox 35 this week. Firefox 35 also includes some interesting new features such asa cross-platform video chat service called Firefox Hello and new social sharing features. You can now make free video and voice calls from your Web browser, with no account or…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Once again, terror is in the news and dominates much of the national discussion. A major European city, the great City of Lights, was brought to a standstill last week dealing with an awful act of terror that shocked not only a nation, but the world. Despite some success since 9/11 made it a national…

Reading Time: 1 minute OpenSSL has released updates patching eight vulnerabilities, one of which may allow an attacker to cause a Denial of Service condition. The OpenSSL security update addresses a vulnerability where sending an invalid DTLS handshake to an OpenSSL DTLS client the code can be made to recurse eventually crashing in a DoS attack. OpenSSL is an…