There's going to be numerous updates published tomorrow by Microsoft.

But you'll more likely want to keep an eye on Adobe. Current versions of Flash are vulnerable.

More and more mobile phones are shipping with Windows installation files on microSD cards rather than on CD-ROMs. All that's needed to sync your phone with your PC is to connect the phone, detect it as a removable USB drive, and then run the installer. Many phone vendors also include an autorun.inf file to assist the process.

Yesterday, while researching some blacklisted domains, we came across five rogue scanning UIs hosted from a single URL.

That's five scams for the price of one and we only needed to refresh our browser. All of our screenshots were taken from a computer running Linux.

The first one called itself AntivirusPlus and wanted its victim to Erase infected.

Why is it that banking trojans are a problem when all online banks are HTTPS secured and many of them employ multi-factor authentication?

The answer: Humans are not digital.

Our Mac & Linux Team published an update to our Linux based F-Secure Rescue CD this week.

Rescue CD 3.11 now includes some useful disk utilities:

  •  PhotoRec — a recovery tool for data that's been accidentally deleted or lost due to a corrupted file system
  •  TestDisk — a recovery tool that can be used to recover a lost partition

- It would be useful to have support for Xen domU failover with VCS (similar to what you support for containers on Solaris10 now)

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Mebroot/Sinowal/MBR/Torpig has been active since end of 2007 and is one of the most sophisticated and also one of the most successul trojans of our time (see Wikipedia – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mebroot).

If you’re one of those people with a passing knowledge of Linux, you might see it as something used exclusively by network admins, developers, and hobbyists. What you may not realize is that these admins, devs, and hobbyists have taken this versatile OS and ported it to all sorts of devices over the years.