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Computerworld Virus & Vulnerability Roundup
December 17, 2009
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The Security Paradox
Medium organizations around the globe are increasingly concerned about
cyberthreats, and the rising number of incidents shared publicly certainly
justifies their worries. In the first half of 2009, for example, McAfee® Labs
saw almost as much new malware as it did in all of 2008. At the same time, most
organizations have frozen or cut their IT security budgets. Threats up, budgets
down. This is what we call the "security paradox."
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In this issue:
1. Chinese ISP hosts 1 in 7 Conficker infections
2. Adobe won't patch latest PDF zero-day until Jan. 12
3. Rogue antivirus lurks behind Google Doodle searches
4. Kill JavaScript in Adobe Reader to ward off zero-day exploit, experts urge
5. Hackers are defeating tough authentication, Gartner warns
6. Adobe probes new in-the-wild PDF bug
7. Adobe warns of Reader, Acrobat attack in the wild
8. Adobe Flash's security woes: How to protect yourself
9. FBI: Rogue antivirus scammers have made $150M
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Chinese ISP hosts 1 in 7 Conficker infections
Security experts have known for months that some countries have had a harder
time battling the Conficker worm than others. But thanks to data released
Wednesday by Shadowserver, a volunteer-run organization, they now have a better
idea of which Internet Service Providers have the biggest problem.
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Adobe won't patch latest PDF zero-day until Jan. 12
Adobe doesn't plan to patch the newest critical vulnerability in its PDF viewing
and editing software for another four weeks, even though attack code has been
publicly released.
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Rogue antivirus lurks behind Google Doodle searches
In Esperanto the word is "malica." It means malicious and it's the best way of
describing many of the search results Google visitors got Tuesday when the
clicked on Google's front-page Doodle sketch, dedicated to Esperanto's creator.
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Kill JavaScript in Adobe Reader to ward off zero-day exploit, experts urge
Security experts today urged Adobe Reader and Acrobat users to disable the
JavaScript option until a patch is issued for a just-disclosed vulnerability.
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Hackers are defeating tough authentication, Gartner warns
Security measures such as one-time passwords and phone-based user
authentication, considered among the most robust forms of security, are no
longer enough to protect online banking transactions against fraud, a new
report from research firm Gartner Inc. warns.
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Adobe probes new in-the-wild PDF bug
Adobe confirmed late on Monday that hackers are exploiting a vulnerability in
the most up-to-date version of its PDF viewing and editing applications.
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Adobe warns of Reader, Acrobat attack in the wild
Adobe is investigating new reports that hackers are attacking a previously
unknown bug in the latest version of the company's Reader and Acrobat software.
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Adobe Flash's security woes: How to protect yourself
Experts disagree whether Adobe's security is 'immature' or Flash's popularity
makes it a hackers' target
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FBI: Rogue antivirus scammers have made $150M
They're the scourge of the Internet right now and the U.S. Federal Bureau of
Investigation says they've also raked in more than $150 million for scammers.
Security experts call them rogue antivirus programs.
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