Vulnerabilities and exploits

This latest report covers the continuing evolution of malicious code, examining the latest virus outbreaks, their significance, and security issues associated with the release of Vista.

The May update from Microsoft is covered across 7 bulletins. All of the bulletins address remote code execution vulnerabilities, thus are all rated as critical — Microsoft’s most severe rating.

Warezov and Zhelatin regularly cause virus outbreaks, hit the headlines, and create a huge amount of work for virus labs around the world, but it’s NetSky.t.

It’s usual for the leader in our online rankings to change, but this month’s leader is very unusual.

This article continues our research into wireless network security. Previous articles have examined wireless network security in China, Germany, London, and Paris.

asus.com compromised: link to ANI exploit

Microsoft has just released an out-of-cycle security patch to address a vulnerability in Windows

Kaspersky Lab presents the Online Scanner Top Twenty for March 2007

Kaspersky Lab presents the Virus Top Twenty for March 2007

The offline way to online safety

The fact that it’s easy to encrypt a network channel and the fact that in most cases there will be no verification of who created the file results in a contradictory situation: a “secure connection” to a server provides the user with a feeling of security, but does not guarantee that the connection will be free from malicious data.

As it stands however, Microsoft will not be releasing any patches today.

University compromised in the Netherlands

This article is a continuation of last year’s report on vulnerable Bluetooth devices in Moscow.

Kaspersky Lab presents the Online Scanner Top Twenty for February 2007