Symantec is observing limited targeted attacks using a new backdoor Trojan, Backdoor.Korplug. This backdoor surfaced earlier this year in March 2012. In these attacks, the targets are sent a crafte
Hello and welcome to this month's blog on the Microsoft patch release. This month the vendor is releasing nine bulletins covering a total of 16 vulnerabilities. Four of this month's issue
ZeroAccess, a kernel-mode rootkit, recently shifted its infection technique from kernel mode to user mode. (For more on ZeroAccess, which turns infected systems into a peer-to-peer botnet, read the
This is our second look at security-related changes to Windows 8 and the new Metro interface. Our first post introduced the topic and examined some of what’s new and potentially risky in Inte