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Drooptroop leads to rogueware Security Master AV

A variant of the Trojan family Drooptroop leads to the infection of Rougeware named Security Master AV. It…

Few hours to Black Hat 2010, Vegas.

Black Hat 2010 will kick start few hours from now. Lot of security experts and security community guys…

Orkut Phishing Attack

Recently I received a scrap on my orkut account from unknown person, explaining the trick to Freely Recharge…

Workaround from Microsoft to fix the issue related to CVE-2010-2568

Microsoft is working hard to fix the issue related to CVE-2010-2568 and to release the security updates as…

StuxNet, CVE-2010-2568 misconceptions and facts

Lot is being discussed and written about the latest StuxNet worm/virus/trojan/rootkit. After analyzing the StuxNet samples and having…

Coca-Cola scam on Facebook

“I am part of the 98.0% of people that are NEVER gonna drink Coca Cola again after this…

CVE-2010-2568: LNK file automatically executes code in Control Panel shortcuts

Microsoft LNK files [MS-SHLLINK] which are now turned into auto executable files by malware authors using its undocumented…

For Windows XP Service Pack 2 users

July’s patch release (blogged by Basant) marks the end of patching support for both Windows 2000 and Windows…

Microsoft Security Bulletin released for the month of July

Microsoft has released its security bulletin for July 2010. This month Microsoft has released four bulletins, addressing total…

Mercedes Benz promotion email scam

I recently received a mail with the subject line “Mercedes Benz Promotion (Test Questions)”. The subject line was…