Vulnerabilities and exploits

For business travelers, the use of a laptop to stay connected to access business documents and connect to office resources is an absolute necessity. In this Lab Matters webcast, Kaspersky Lab malware researcher Stefan Tanase provides some general travel tips and advice to assist in protecting you, your laptop and your corporate data while you are on the road.

The Sony PSN servers are back online

Thoughts on the security of the newly announced Chromebook with Google Chrome OS.

In this newest edition of Lab Matters, Director of Kaspersky Lab’s Global Research and Analysis Team Costin Raiu offers some predictions about what we will see in the second half of 2011.

After last month’s mega patch Tuesday this month’s can only be described as very quiet. A total of three vulnerabilities are getting patched in two bulletins, MS011-035 and MS011-036.

The latest Osama’s home videos have been used for not only FakeAV spreading but also Codepack advertisement botnet malware propagation.

Microsoft is making a couple changes to its exploitability index to help clarify vulnerability issues in Microsoft software to its customers, keeping its program far ahead of other major vendors. Still, no system is perfect.

There are countless firms that sell expensive computer security products and gear. But most experts will tell you that the one step you can take to most improve the security of your home or work computer is to have and follow strict password security. But what makes a password strong (or weak)?

The following statistics were compiled in April using data from computers running Kaspersky Lab products: 221 mln network attacks blocked,190 mln malicious programs detected, 86 mln heuristic verdicts registered.

Rumors on underground forums say that the PSN data is for sale, and that it actually contains the CCV2 code…

Here’s the latest of our malware wallpaper calendars.

Royal Wedding news is being used by cibercriminals to infect people and to steal their money

After a long service black out Sony reported yesterday that their PSN gamer network has been compromised. Sony further admitted that all kinds of user data had become available to an unknown attacker.  Some of the personal details available to the attackers include your name, address, and email address, date of birth, PSN login name and password.  In fact even password security answers may have been obtained.  In addition to these items Sony stated “While there is no evidence at this time that credit card data was taken, we cannot rule out the possibility.”  Sony does not speculate on when their network may come back online but states that they are rebuilding it, and undergoing external security audits.

Kaspersky Lab malware researcher Vicente Diaz joins the Lab Matters webcast to discuss the banking malware epidemic in Europe and offer suggestions for consumers doing business on the Web.

This month, Microsoft is releasing 17 bulletins to address 63 security vulnerabilities across a wide range of Windows products. Out of these vulnerabilities, 12 are rated critical and 51 important.