Announcements

Joomla Re-Issues Security Update After Patches Glitch

  • 1st October 2014
Users of the Joomla content management system have been on a patching roller coaster the past 24 hours with one set of patches for critical vulnerabilities being pulled last night before being re-issued today. The Joomla update, bringing the CMS up to version 3.3.6, is a security update addressing a high priority remote file inclusion ...
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Drupal Patches XSS Vulnerability in Spam Module

  • 19th September 2014
Drupal released an update that patches a cross-site scripting vulnerability in a popular spam and content moderation module used by websites built on the open source CMS. The vulnerability was in a feature of the Mollom module that is installed on at least 60,000 sites, said Drupal security team volunteer Greg Knaddison, director of ...
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Macro based malware is on the rise

  • 18th September 2014
Malware authors have a rediscovered their love for Visual Basic, as the percentage of macro based malware rose from around 6% of all document malware in June to 28% in July, Sophos researchers have found.Gabor Szappanos, principal researcher at SophosLabs, explained in a paper published earlier this year the advantages of Visual Basic code over ...
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470 million sites exist for 24 hours, 22% are malicious

  • 9th September 2014
Blue Coat researchers analyzed more than 660 million unique hostnames requested by 75 million global users over a 90-day period. They found that 71 percent of the hostnames, or 470 million, were “One Day Wonders,” sites that appeared only for a single day.The largest generators of these sites include organizations that have a ...
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