The death of Korean leader Kim Jong Il resulted in an outpour of reactions from many people all over the world. Some people were saddened by the loss, while some were quite jubilant, saying that Kim Jong Il was "a repressive leader".
Cybercriminals, on the other hand, only had one reaction to the incident—to take advantage of it.
Our researchers found spammed messages with email subjects mentioning the death of Kim Jong Il. The messages arrive with a .PDF attachment that has ...
The Android Market was once again infiltrated by malware, as a handful of premium service abusers (which we detect as ANDROIDOS_RUFRAUD.A) posed as legitimate apps were uploaded to the site. A few users were able to install the malicious apps before Google took them down– a fast reaction due to the quick responses from vigilant users and security firms.
Although the malicious apps are now off the Android Market, we must all be consistently on guard for malicious apps that ...
Convenience, ease, and better deals are just three of the reasons why more and more users shop online. Users’ level of adoption for online shopping has been increasing the past years. In fact, reports predict that there will be a 78% increase in the US shopper volume by 2014.
Mobile computing is also starting to play a bigger role in terms of online shopping, as 43% of all Web-enabled smartphone owners said they use their mobile devices to help them shop. ...
We were recently alerted to the reports of an attack leveraging a vulnerability in TimThumb -- a PHP script for cropping, zooming, and resizing Web images (.JPG,.PNG, .GIF) and used as an add-on script on WordPress. The said vulnerability enables cybercriminals to perform local file insertion. When successfully exploited, it inserts a PHP script, which may be used for other data hacks.
The vulnerability was first discovered last August and has affected at least over 1.2 million websites.
Based on our ...
With Android's steady growth in the US market and other parts of the world, it's no surprise that the Android OS is also becoming more and more popular in China. Many users choose to use Android-based devices because of their powerful functions, various phone types, reasonable prices, and plenty of applications. A consequence of this wide-spread usage is that the Android OS is now the second-largest smartphone OS in China.
This growth of Android users in China, however, seems to do ...
