December, 2009
234 million websites to browse
According to Netcraft company, whose main activity is global network monitoring, the number of websites in Internet is now apporaching 234 million. Only in last year 47 million of new websites have emerged, and 7 million of them are active – meaning they have regular visitors. The leader in web-servers among all of these websites [...]
20 million in the sock by Google
We understand that this is not entirely software news, but it involves one of the biggest players on the software market and should be mentioned especially with the holiday’s time. Google, always being innovative and original, has made a present to the world by donating 20 million USD to the charity organizations. It was motivated [...]
Russian Hackers gang linked to Big Citibank Hack
U.S. authorities linked a well-known group involved with malicious software, hacking, child pornography and spam known as Russian Business Network gang to the theft of an estimated tens of millions of dollars from Citibank which occurred mid-year. It was not known whether the money had been recovered and a Citibank representative said the company had [...]
Zero-Day patch for Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 and 7
A dangerous vulnerability in Internet Explorer became known to publicity before a fix was available, raising the probability of zero-days attacks. The new bug involves the way IE handles Cascading Style Sheets objects(CSS is currently the most popular web-design technique), and could allow an attacker to execute any type of code on a targeted Windows [...]
Bing Information Design company sues Microsoft over trademark
A small Missouri design company that includes a word “Bing” in its name filed the case to the St. Louis circuit court this week, accusing Microsoft for branding its search engine with the same word, alleging trademark infringement and unfair competition. The design company, which offers computer-related illustrations and other services, has used the name [...]
European Windows users will be able to choose the browser they like
Back in December 2007 Opera Software made a request to the European Commission to investigate the strategy that Microsoft uses to promote Microsoft Internet Explorer web browser using the dominating position as the operating system developers. Since then Mozilla and Google also joined the antimonopoly investigation, and as the result from today European Windows users [...]
Adobe Warns of Reader and Acrobat Attacks
Adobe started investigation on new reports about hacker attacks using previously unknown bug in the latest version of Reader and Acrobat software. It is said that Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.2 and some earlier versions are exploited in the wild. Adobe stated that this vulnerability has been found by partners in the security community, and [...]
Adobe Flash’s security woes
99 percent ofInternet-connected desktops have Adobe’s Flash Player software installed, offering up multimedia and video capabilities on a multitude of popular Web sites. But lately Adobe Flash Player technoligy has become a preferred vector for cyberthieves. There are two versions of possible causes – first stands besides the Flash populary, with such a large amount [...]
HP released patches for OpenView Vulnerabilities
Hewlett-Packard has issued a number of patches for its OpenView software package. Given the severity of vulnerabilities it is advised to apply these patches immediately. The HP OpenView Network Node Manager has 12 buffer overflow holes, which could be exploited to execute arbitrary code, or even gain control. Each of the vulnerabilities has been given [...]