Vulnerabilities and exploits

The Democratic Party of Hong Kong’s website was compromised and serving malware nearly identical to the compromised UK Amnesty International servers at the beginning of this month. The server has been cleaned up.

We are currently investigating a new malicious campaign on Facebook mostly targeting French speaking users.

A host of events took place in the world of IT threats during the first quarter of 2011.

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