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Avast 8 Adds Creature Comforts, Better Sandbox Protection

Posted 03/01/2013 at 8:33am | by Paul Lilly

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The newest version of Avast is better suited for touchscreen displays.

The march of technology is inevitable, and not just on the hardware side. As luck would have it, no sooner did we finish our annual antivirus roundup (look for it in the April issue of Maximum PC), Avast, one of the contenders, comes out with a new version. That's bound to happen when you're evaluating 10 different programs, but timing aside, here's what Avast 8 brings to the table.

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HTML5 Hole in Major Browsers Lets Sites Fill Up Your Hard Dive

Posted 03/01/2013 at 12:13am | by Pulkit Chandna

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Problem stems from the way affected browsers implement the HTML5 Web Storage standard

A Stanford computer science student named Feross Aboukhadijeh has discovered a bug in Chrome, Safari (iOS and desktop), Opera, and Internet Explorer that makes it possible for a site to fill up the system's storage space. The problem, according to Aboukhadijeh, lies in the way the affected browsers implement the HTML5 Web Storage standard, which allows web pages to store large amounts of data locally in a fast, secure and efficient manner.

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Adobe Issues Security Updates to Plug Critical Holes in Flash

Posted 02/26/2013 at 11:57pm | by Pulkit Chandna

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Latest security bulletin addresses three vulnerabilities

February is proving to be a very busy month for those tasked with the unenviable task of plugging Flash Player holes at Adobe. The Adobe Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) on Tuesday announced the availability of new security updates for the Flash Player. This is the third time this month that the company has had to release security updates for the ubiquitous plugin.

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Patches for Zero-Day Adobe Reader, Acrobat Flaws to Arrive this Week

Posted 02/19/2013 at 4:43am | by Pulkit Chandna

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Security firm discovered exploit capable of bypassing Adobe Reader sandbox last week

Last year was a pretty decent one for Adobe Reader as it relinquished the dubious honor of being the most exploited software (as ranked by Kaspersky Lab) to Oracle’s Java. But the fact is it is still very popular among malware authors. For instance, last week security firm FireEye discovered an exploit capable of bypassing the software’s sandbox. Thankfully, Adobe, which wasted little time in confirming the zero-day exploit, expects to have a patch ready this week.

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Burger King's Twitter Account Suffers a McHack Attack

Posted 02/18/2013 at 12:07pm | by Paul Lilly

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Hackers changed Burger King's Twitter account to look like McDonalds.

Perhaps, as one Twitter user commented, "Whopper123" isn't a secure password. Whatever password Burger King was using to lock down its Twitter account, hackers figured it out and promptly got to work with a McDonalds themed makeover. The cyber pranksters changed Burger King's Twitter handle and avatar, and posted a series of fake tweets, one of which claimed the fast food joint had been sold to McDonalds.

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AVG Finds 11-Year-Old Kids Are Writing Malware

Posted 02/08/2013 at 9:35am | by Paul Lilly

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It's not just adults who write and distribute Trojans, pre-teen kids are doing it too, AVG says.

I'd like to think that most 11-year-old kids are into video games, comics, collecting baseball cards, watching Cartoon Network, and things of that nature. Hell, I still do most of those as an adult, but what I find hard to fathom is a handful of pre-teen kids are spending their free time writing malicious code. It's true, according to a report by security firm AVG, which notes that the code is usually written using the .NET framework.

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Odd Android Malware Attacks Windows PCs, Triggers Your Microphone

Posted 02/04/2013 at 12:29pm | by Paul Lilly

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Security firm discovers a pair of malicious apps in Google Play that try to exploit Windows' AutoRun feature.

Do you talk to your PC? If so, be careful what secrets you share with your system, you never know who might be listening. We're not being paranoid here, Security firm Kaspersky has discovered a pair of malicious programs in Google Play that are designed to infect PCs, where it then gets busy tapping into the audio system so that it can record the victim. The sound files are then sent to the malware's author. What's the point?

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UPnP Flaw Leaves Millions of Networked Devices Vulnerable to Attack

Posted 01/29/2013 at 12:53pm | by Paul Lilly

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Popular networking standard places as many as 50 million IPs at risk of one of three attacks, researchers say.

Researchers at Rapid7, a provider of vulnerability management, compliance, and penetration testing solutions for web applications, network, and database security, warns that the popular Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) protocol is flawed, exposing tens of millions of network devices to at least one of three different types of attacks. More than 23 million Internet-connected devices are vulnerable to remote code execution through a single UDP packet, along with tens of millions more via remote discovery on the web.

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Anonymous Up to Old Tricks, Hacks U.S. Department of Justice

Posted 01/28/2013 at 9:42am | by Paul Lilly

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Hacking group takes credit for attack on U.S. Department of Justice's website.

The hactivist organization known as Anonymous is claiming it's the one responsible for infiltrating the U.S. Department of Justice's Sentencing Commission website (www.ussc.gov) over the weekend. This latest attack was in retaliation to the government's attempt to prosecute Aaron Swartz for illegally downloading millions of academic journals from JSTOR, an online archive and journal distribution service.

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Calling All Readers: Which Antivirus Programs Would YOU Like to See Reviewed?

Posted 01/16/2013 at 3:40pm | by Paul Lilly

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Tell us which AV programs you want to see included in this year's roundup!

Straight and to the point, we need your help. You see, we're getting ready to conduct our annual roundup of Internet security suites, and we thought we'd try something a little different this year. Rather than pick which programs we think you'd be most interested in reading about, we're letting YOU tell US which ones to include. That's right, you wield the power -- how will you use it?

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The newest version of Avast is better suited for touchscreen displays.

Problem stems from the way affected browsers implement the HTML5 Web Storage standard

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Security firm discovered exploit capable of bypassing Adobe Reader sandbox last week

Hackers changed Burger King's Twitter account to look like McDonalds.

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Security firm discovers a pair of malicious apps in Google Play that try to exploit Windows' AutoRun feature.

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