First iPhone Worm Hits Jailbroken iPhones in Australia

iPhone users in Australia are hit by a new worm which changes their wallpaper to an image of 1980s pop-star Rick Astley. The worm affects only jailbroken iPhones, if their default password after install SSH has not been changed.

According to security expert, Graham Cluley, the worm has been coded by a hacker calling himself [...]

Wordpress 2.8.5 Security Update is out!

Wordpress.org has released their latest security update. Wordpress 2.8.5 is out now!
Over the past few months Wordpress.org has worked hard towards securing their popular blogging platform. In the process they managed to close some serious security loopholes in Wordpress 2.8.4. Now they have released another security update to their popular blogging platform in the form [...]

Microsoft’s Plug-in puts Firefox Users at Risk

Back in February, Microsoft silently slipped Windows Presentation Foundation plugin into Firefox without user’s consent. This plugin came along with .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 and was installed in IE as well as Firefox via Windows Update.

It has now been discovered that the code in the plugin can cause a very serious [...]

Download Microsoft Security Essentials Beta

On 23rd June, Microsoft unveiled their new free security tool, Microsoft Security Essential (codenamed: Morro). The beta download was capped to 75000 and was restricted to USA and China, however, the beta is already available through file sharing networks, which means you don’t have to sit there and wait for it to be available in [...]

NanoScan:The Fastest Online Virus/Malware Scanner

This post is by Abhijeet Mukherjee, a tech enthusiast and is going to start his blog soon.
One of the ways to detect suspicious programs on your computer is by running an online virus scan.Although there are a number of online virus scanners like McAfee FreeScan and Trend Micro, most of them take time and consume [...]