Is your IP address on the 'Shady Rat' server?
Shady Rat Checker checks IP addresses against those found on the "Shady Rat" command-and-control server.
Shady Rat Checker checks IP addresses against those found on the "Shady Rat" command-and-control server.
Hackers are using the Shodan computer search engine to find Internet-facing SCADA systems using potentially insecure mechanisms for authentication and authorization.
In some cases, a hacker could take complete control of an affected Mac OS X machine if a user is lured to a malicious Web site or views a rigged movie file.
A security research outfit has issued a warning for several critical vulnerabilities in popular XML libraries used by a wide range of software vendors.The flaws, discovered earlier this year by Codenomicon, affect a wide range of technology products, including servers and server applications, workstations and end user applications, network devices, embedded systems and mobile devices.
Microsoft has confirmed several "unexpected UI errors" in the WSUS (Windows Server Update Services) patch management tool could disrupt the distribution of today's Patch Tuesday software fixes.
Well-organized identity thieves are using porn video lures to deliver malware to Mac OS X users, confirming fears among security researchers that it's only a matter of time before Apple's fast-growing platform becomes a big malware target.
The WabiSabiLabi vulnerability auction house is hyping the sale of a potentially nasty remote code execution flaw in ClamAV, the popular open-source anti-virus toolkit recently acquired by Sourcefire.
Default installations of Sun's free Solaris operating system are sitting ducks for remote code execution attacks.According to an alert from iDefense, the flaw exists in the way Solaris implements the X Font Server (xfs), which is used to handle font rendering on X11 (X Window System).
According to a notice in the Ubuntu weekly newsletter, 5 of the 8 servers that are loco hosted had to be shut down after an investigation showed a variety of security problems.
An zero-day vulnerability in the DNS server service in Windows is under attack, Microsoft warned in a security advisory.The "limited attacks" are exploiting a stack overflow error in the Windows Domain Name System (DNS) Server's RPC interface implementation when processing malformed requests sent to a port between 1024 and 5000.