April 2011.

• 04/30/11 Anonymous will launch a DoS attack against Iran’s Websites.
  Anonymous is a group of hackers who are behind of several denial-of-services (DoS) attacks that were affecting PayPal, Visa, and MasterCard because they stop receiving donation for WikiLeaks...
• 04/29/11 Xbox alerts customers about spam email.
  Microsoft Xbox 360 has released a service alert to customer about a phishing attack thought the Xbox messaging system when they are playing Modern Warfare 2. It seems those attackers are using the Xbox 360...
• 04/29/11 Mozilla releases a security update.
  Mozilla Foundation has released a critical security update for Firefox, Thunderbird, and SeaMonkey. According to the security advisory 2011-12, a bug in the browser can cause a memory corruption...
• 04/29/11 NY Yankees unintentionally leaks fans’ information.
  Most of the time cybercriminals are involved in a personal information leak; however, this time a human error has compromised about 21,000 Yankee’s fans private information. According to Deanspin.com, a Yankee’s employee...
• 04/28/11 Sony guarantees encryption in the stolen credit card information.
  Sony has answered a questioner which states that the credit card information was encrypted and also, there is not evidence that the credit card data was taken. However, Sony admits that users’ credit card expiration...
• 04/28/11 Be alert of a rogue app in Twitter.
  There is a fake app that is circulating in twitter network which is using “VIDEO PROHIBIDO LADY GAGA banned” as subject and it seems coming from @shakira (Colombian singer.) According to Sophos security...
• 04/28/11 A fake mobile antivirus uses Kaspersky lab logo.
  Kaspersky has discovered a fake mobile antivirus that is using Kaspersky lab logo which was already reported since August 6, 2008. According to securelist website, the fake app was labeled as...
• 04/28/11 Apple denies tracking users’ location.
  Apple has released a statement via Steve Jobs who denies that iPhone is following iPhone users’ positions; however, Apple states that the iPhone is keeping records of nearby Wi-Fi hotspots or cell towers for app...
• 04/27/11 FBI tracks fraudulent money obtains via malware.
  People may think where the stolen money goes after cybercriminals accessed people’s banking information. A recent report by the FBI states that part of the money was transferred to Chinese cities such as Raohe, Fuyuan...
• 04/27/11 Windows phone 7 also tracks users’ location.
  Microsoft has accepted that Windows phone 7 also tracks and sends users’ private information such as unique device ID and nearby Wi-Fi networks. So, Android from Google, iPhone from Apple and Windows phone 7...
• 04/27/11 Google updates Chrome to fix security issues.
  Google has released Chrome version 11.0.696.57 to the Stable Channel to addresses some security issues and also some improvements. The new Chrome version is available for Mac, Windows, Linux and Chrome frame...
• 04/27/11 BitDefender warns clients of fake Antivirus.
  BitDefender antivirus company is warning about a FAKEAV that is using their name. The FAKEAV has cloned some BitDefender screen that easily can trick users. According to Malware City website, rogue AV usually...
• 04/27/11 WordPress fixes security flaws with version 3.1.2.
  WordPress.org has released version 3.1.2 to repair several security vulnerabilities. According to the WordPress blog, vulnerability in the posts field allows users to inappropriate publish information...
• 04/26/11 PlayStation database compromised.
  Last week Sony disconnected the PlayStation network because their system was access by unauthorized people. Therefore, PlayStation players were not able to play online. Unfortunately today, Sony has alerted...
• 04/26/11 New Version of SpyEye aims Chrome and Opera.
  Cybercriminals are always looking for new techniques to trick security systems. As a result, there is a new version of SpyEye Trojan which is targeting Chrome and Opera web browsers on a Windows Operating system...
• 04/26/11 Microsoft releases second edition of MSRT.
  Microsoft has announced the second edition of Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) in April which will protect and prevent the Win32/Afcore botnet. Usually, Microsoft releases the MSRT...
• 04/26/11 Android HTC also stores your location.
  Last week two researchers discovered that Apple iPhones keep tracks of users’ location; even though, the feature is disabled. Likewise, Android HTC is collecting users’ location and transmitting to Google...
• 04/25/11 New Virus is targeting Iran.
  Do you remember Stuxnet virus that supposedly was targeting Iran nuclear plants? Today, Iran government has informed a new cyber-attack. Gholamreza Jalali, head of the Iranian civil defense organization informed about...
• 04/25/11 New generation of FAKEAV shows up.
  FAKEAV is a “popular” malware used by cybercriminals to infect system; then, they request to purchase it if computers’ users want to clean the system. Unfortunately, there is a new generation (4th) of FAKEAV that was reported...
• 04/25/11 Yahoo! Advertisement hacked.
  Imagine you open your web browser and an advertisement grabs your attention; then, you click it and you got a malware. According to TrendMicro blog, Yahoo! PH Purple Hunt 2.0 ad was compromised and it seems...
• 04/22/11 Be suspicious with some Google images.
  Probably you may experience a virus infection after you were searching images in Google and you do not understand what happens. Well there is an explanation for that; According to Websense website, cybercriminals...
• 04/22/11 Software company’s servers hacked.
  A German software company Ashampoo reported this week that one of its servers was compromised by attackers and private customer information were stolen. Opportunely, the intrusion was detected and the security...
• 04/21/11 Fake Epsilon tool steal user information.
  Epsilon’s system was hacked a few weeks ago and thousands of e-mail addresses were comprised. Now, cybercriminals are using Epsilon as a subject to deliver malware. TrendMicro reports that a Fake Epsilon...
• 04/21/11 Adobe releases security updates for Reader and Acrobat.
  Adobe has made available security updates for Reader and Acrobat to patch several critical vulnerabilities. As you remember, Adobe announced Security advisory APSA 11-02 where cybercriminals were using a flaw...
• 04/21/11 Microsoft updates Silverlight to fix numerous vulnerabilities.
  Microsoft has released Silverlight 4 version 4.0.60129.0 to patch several important security vulnerabilities. Unfortunately, there is not more information available yet about Microsoft security update KB2526954...
• 04/21/11 Bing launches Read and Write World project.
  Bing, the Microsoft search engine announced in the Where 2.0 conference a project called Read/Write World (RWW) which will use Bing 3D maps to connect and display photos and videos automatically...
• 04/20/11 Skype fixes vulnerability in its app for Android.
  Skype has released a new version of Skype for Android which will fix the vulnerability discovered by Android Police website. As you know, a rogue app created specifically to exploit the flaw in Skype for Android...
• 04/20/11 Spam delivers fake Facebook messenger installer.
  People are receiving spam email with a Facebook notification message which is distributing a false Facebook messenger installer file (facebookMessengerSetup.exe.) Unluckily, if a user clicks the link...
• 04/20/11 Skype announces new look for Facebook tab.
  Skype knows that Facebook is the most popular social network; for that reason Skype has introduced a renovate version of Facebook tab for Windows. Moreover, the new Skype for Windows improves speed...
• 04/19/11 Google releases toolbar 7.
  Google has announced toolbar version 7 for Internet Explorer which will include the speed of Google Instant. As per Google blog, toolbar 7 is fresher, cleaner, and faster. Moreover, Toolbar 7 is bringing better features...
• 04/19/11 Google updates Chrome beta channel.
  Google has released Chrome beta channel version 11.0.696.50 for Windows, mac, Linux and Google Chrome Platform to addresses several bugs. As per Chrome blog, the latest release will fix a problem in Flash that does...
• 04/19/11 Facebook introduces new Safety tools.
  Facebook the biggest social network has improved and added new safety tools to prevent cyber-bulling, upgraded report issues tools and better secure connection. Several agencies start campaigns to stop cyber-bulling...
• 04/19/11 Apple updates iTunes to fix several bugs.
  Apple has released iTunes version 10.2.2 to addresses several bugs and also added some new features. As per Apple support, iTunes 10.2.2 will fix synchronization between iPad and iTunes which may become...
• 04/18/11 Be careful with the Easter’s greeting e-cards.
  There is not surprise that cybercriminals are using an upcoming occasion to spread malware; Easter is the Christian holiday and it is being used as a topic to deliver malware via greeting e-card. According to MacAfee blog...
• 04/18/11 Yahoo officially shuts down Buzz.
  Yahoo has announced the closing of Buzz which was launched three years ago. Unfortunately for yahoo, Buzz did not work as expected. And several Internet experts agreed that Yahoo Buzz was competing...
• 04/18/11 Microsoft launches Office 365 Public beta.
  The Redmond Company has announced the availability of Microsoft Office 365 beta for the public around the world. The Office 365 is a cloud-based service for small business which contains Microsoft Office...
• 04/17/11 Google will shut down video service.
  Google has decided to close its video service on May 13 and all videos will be deleted; however, user may select their videos to YouTube which is Google other video service. According to Mashable website, Google will stop...
• 04/16/11 Adobe releases security critical updates.
  Adobe has released critical security updates to patch Flash Player vulnerability describes in the Security Bulletin APSB11-07. We recommend install Adobe Flash Player 10.2.159.1 from the Adobe download...
• 04/15/11 Oracle will release critical security updates.
  Oracle has announced 73 critical securities update for several its products. The security patches update will available on April 19, 2011 and Oracle recommends applying all updates immediately...
• 04/15/11 Critical vulnerability discovered in Skype for Android.
  A critical vulnerability was exposed in Skype for Android which a poor store data system can allow to release private information of the phone such as user name, profile, and contact. According to Android...
• 04/15/11 Apple is planning to add “Do Not Track” tool to Safari.
  Apple is testing the new tool “Do Not Track” in Lion which is Apple’s Mac OS X operating system. As you know, “Do Not Track” tool will allow Internet’s users to stop being monitored by marketers. At this moment...
• 04/14/11 Apple releases security updates for several of its products.
  Apple like Microsoft has released security updates iOS 4.3.2, iOS 4.2.7 for iPhone, and Safari 5.0.5 to fix several bugs. The security updates are available for installation via iTunes. One important security update...
• 04/14/11 Google improve background feature in Gmail.
  Gmail’s users were able to change the Inbox’s background with their favorite color only. Starting today, Gmail’s users are getting a better background feature that will allow them to customize it with their own...
• 04/14/11 “Coreflood” Botnet takedown by US authorities.
  Good news for computer users, U.S department of Justice and FBI has shut down the “Coreflood” botnet which were delivering malicious software and compromising worldwide computers...
• 04/14/11 WordPress.com computer system hacked.
  The popular blog site Wordpress.com has revealed that their computer systems were compromised and private information may be exposed. Automatic is the company behind WordPress.com and they noticed a...
• 04/13/11 Adobe has scheduled security update release for Flash Player.
  After Adobe released Security advisory APSA11-02 on Monday which cybercriminals were using Adobe Flash Player file (.swf) embedded into Microsoft word (.doc); Adobe has announced a security update for Flash Player...
• 04/13/11 New Twitter App for BlackBerry is available for download.
  BlackBerry has released a version 1.1.0.21 of Twitter App for Blackberry smartphones. The new version is bringing improve features and also several new features such as location to your tweets, instantly notification...
• 04/13/11 Microsoft releases Office validation file.
  Microsoft has announced the availability of Office validation file for Microsoft Office 2003 and Office 2007 which was included in office 2010 by default. The office validation file will help to protect users from cybercriminals...
• 04/13/11 Be aware of spam using fake Facebook support message.
  Users are receiving emails allegedly coming from Facebook support that informed you about your password has been changed automatically for security reason. According to Sophos security, the fake email contains...
• 04/13/11 Google updates Chrome beta channel.
  Google has released Chrome Beta Channel to 11.0.696.43 for Mac, Windows, Linux, and Chrome Frame platform. According to Chrome blog, the latest release will fix several bugs such as password sync, Autofill failure...
• 04/12/11 ESET releases NOD32 Antivirus 4 for Linux.
  ESEST has announced version 4.0.66 of NOD32 Antivirus 4 for Linux desktop home and business editions which is bringing several updates and improvement such as second scanning option, show password...
• 04/12/11 Google adds pagination to Google Docs.
  Google is improving Google document editor since they launched one year ago; today, Google has added pagination which is a classic word processing feature. Additionally, Google improved printing capabilities...
• 04/12/11 Microsoft security bulletin summary.
  Microsoft has released security bulletin for April 2011 which contain 17 bulletins; this security updates is considered one of the biggest one. Here is the summary of security updates:
• 04/12/11 Microsoft releases Bing Business Portal Beta.
  Microsoft has launched a new service for business owner; the new Bing Business portal beta will assist business proprietor to broadcast their business in Bing more active. Basically, business owner will be able to...
• 04/11/11 Twitter adds more Trends.
  As you know, Twitter’s trends feature assist users to find the most relevant topic around the world; for that reason, Twitter has improved Trends by adding 70 new cities and countries. Furthermore, Twitter’s users can find...
• 04/11/11 Critical Security alert for Adobe products.
  Adobe has released a security advisory APSA11-02 for Adobe Flash player, Adobe Reader and Acrobat products which cybercriminals are exploiting in the wild. According to Adobe blog, a Flash file (.swf)...
• 04/11/11 Google releases a Trivia game.
  Google has announced a Trivia game in partnership with the New York Times. The daily puzzle difficulty will rise over the week; however, you are allowed to ask Google for a response which makes each question extremely...
• 04/11/11 Another “‘Profile Viewer” scam in Facebook.
  There is another scam circulating inside Facebook with the same “profile viewer” subject; it seems that cybercriminals knows that people will fall for that because their curiosity. According to Sophos Security, a new...
• 04/08/11 Bogus antivirus takes payments via SMS.
  Cybercriminals are introducing new techniques of how to collect money from their malware. A recent found fake antivirus scareware shows SMS as new payment method. According to CyberDefender...
• 04/08/11 Google adds Hotspot feature to Places.
  Hotspot feature has become a tremendous help for Google’s users that are looking for a new or recommended places for your friends. At this moment, Hotspot is available for iPhone, Android, Google.com, and Google...
• 04/08/11 YouTube goes live.
  YouTube has announced a live streaming feature called YouTube Live as an answer of millions of users that request some type of live stream programs. As you know, YouTube main characteristic is to have recorded...
• 04/08/11 AVG Technologies releases online backup system.
  AVG Technologies is known because of it robust free antivirus software. AVG announced on February 2011 a beta version of “AVG LiveKive” which is a web based backup system that will use the cloud...
• 04/08/11 New spam campaign is sending photos in a .ZIP file.
  Cybercriminals are launching a new spam promotion that contains presumably some photos in a .zip file which is password protected (the spam includes the password.) According to TrendMicro Labs, the attached .zip file...
• 04/07/11 Homeland Security will use Facebook and Twitter to broadcast terror alerts.
  Social networks are becoming a very helpful tool for communication; Facebook with over 600 million of users and Twitter with over 300 million of users are the two most important social networks right now. For that reason, the US department...
• 04/07/11 Microsoft will fix 64 vulnerabilities next Tuesday.
  Microsoft has released a Security bulletin advance notification for the month of April 2011 which will contain 17 security bulletins. Microsoft will addresses 64 vulnerabilities in several Microsoft products such as Windows...
• 04/07/11 Microsoft releases Bing for iPad.
  Microsoft in effort to keep up with technology has released Bing for iPad which is ready for download from Apple App store. The Bing version for iPad was built from the ground up for touch according to the Bing blog...
• 04/07/11 LinkedIn for Android is ready for download.
  LinkedIn has announced LinkedIn App version 1.0 for Android. Since LinkedIn launched the beta version, they were working together with testers to improve all features; therefore, the Android version of LinkedIn...
• 04/07/11 Sony websites suffered DDoS attack.
  Sony sites were offline for a while after the “Anonymous” hacker group announced via YouTube that Sony sites will be targeted with a series of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack because of the lawsuit...
• 04/06/11 Firefox 4 publishes the 10 most popular and unpopular add-ons.
  Since Mozilla foundation released Firefox 4, developers are releasing add-ons that will service Firefox 4 to improve or decrease performance. For that reason Mozilla has released a list of the 10 best add-ons...
• 04/06/11 LinkedIn launches new platform.
  LinkedIn has released a new platform which will help “building the professional web.” The new platform will support JavaScript APIs and OAuth 2.0 that will allow developers incorporate LinkedIn with diverse...
• 04/06/11 Adobe Flash vulnerability was used on the RSA attack.
  On March 14, 2011 we informed that a several attacks were reported using Adobe flash (.swf) and Excel file (.xls) and a four dates later RSA released a statement about RSA’s system were compromised...
• 04/05/11 Twitter launches a new homepage.
  This afternoon, Twitter announced that they are disabling the New Twitter (for a short time) and users are seeing the old Twitter; there may be an explanation for this “problem”; according to Mashable website, Twitter is...
• 04/05/11 Google increase protection on the Internet.
  Google has announced a beta security protection against malicious downloads. The beta security feature will allow the Chrome browser to check every malicious Windows executable and it will display a...
• 04/05/11 WordPress releases version 3.1.1 to fix security flaws.
  WordPress has announced version 3.1.1 which will fix almost thirty security vulnerabilities. As per WordPress blog, there are three major security issues addresses with new version; the CSRF prevention...
• 04/05/11 Google updates Chrome beta channel.
  Google has updated Chrome beta channel to 11.0.696.34 to fix several bugs. According to Chrome blog, Google found an issue in the desktop which an icon was duplicated when was created for the first time...
• 04/04/11 Google fixes several bugs in Chrome OS.
  Google has updated Google OS beta channel to version R11 released 0.11.257.44 which has fixed several bugs in the Flash Player. According to the Google Chrome blog, Flash Player is running in a new...
• 04/04/11 Twitter improves search option.
  Twitter has announced an improvement of the find and follow option which now people can search for specific topic and can get more significant results of the topic. Before, users that search for a subject only...
• 04/04/11 A fake Application is fooling Twitter’s users.
  Profile Spy is a bogus application that is circulating in Twitter and misleading users to click it and give access to Twitter users ’ account. According to Sophos Security, the bogus application “Profile Spy” promises...
• 04/04/11 Cybercriminals use new technique to trick Facebook’s users.
  Facebook with more than 600 millions of users is an excellent target for cybercriminals who send spam into the users’ walls that spread to their friends as well. TrendMicro Labs has discovered a new schema...
• 04/03/11 Epsilon’s Customer list compromised.
  Epsilon, the major e-mail marketing service provider has informed that a hole in their security system has exposure e-mail addresses to cybercriminals. According to the Security week website, Epsilon informed...
• 04/02/11 The LizaMoon attacks infected over a million of web pages.
  A campaign launched by cybercriminals is being infected over a million of webpages with a sophisticate code which redirect users to a Software company called Lizamoon.com. According to Websense security labs blog...
• 04/01/11 Google proposes better control over SSL Certificate Security.
  The latest incident about fraudulent SSL Certificate that happened to Comodo Inc.; Google has initiated two projects to improve the public key infrastructure and prevent falsified SSL certificates on the Internet...
• 04/01/11 Google releases Page Speed Online tool.
  Google is working to progress speed and performance of web pages; consequently, Google labs has announced Page Speed Online which will help websites owners to analyzes the performance of web pages...

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