Google engineer Tavis Ormandy, a bug hunter known for finding kernel-level operating system coding errors, has released details about a serious zero-day vulnerability in Windows XP that could leave an open hole for a remote attacker. The flaw is contained in the Windows Help and Support Center, a Web-based feature providing technical support to end...

Embattled Adobe has warned of a “critical” zero day vulnerability in its Flash Player and Adobe Reader and Acrobat products that  could be exploited by attackers wishing take control of your PC. The company said there had been no reports (yet) of the vulnerabilities actually being exploited but an official patch is not yet available...

A new zero day exploit has been found in the Japanese word processor Ichitaro. JP-RTL engineers have received a sample Ichitaro document, which is capable of exploiting the previously unknown vulnerability. If exploited, arbitrary code could be run on users’ systems. The file that exploits this new vulnerability has been detected as TROJ_TARODROP.XZ....

Yesterday in my article Is Your Credit Card Information Safe? i wrote on my concerns about credit card security. I know some of you may ignore my fears and warnings, saying that they will never become a victim of a credit card crime. To say the truth – a day ago i had no intention to write such article. But while I was surfing some Russian forums...

You may say that your card is safe in your wallet? Or in a secure place in the ladies bag? Maybe yes, and maybe not. As probably everybody knows, presence of the plastic card is not a necessary thing for making a credit card fraud. There are many techniques used by the criminals to pull the money of of your card. In the past, in the time of magnetic-stripe...

Apple’s Safari browser contains a highly critical zero day flaw that can allow attackers to infect Windows PCs with malicious code. Researchers at US-CERT and other security firms confirmed today that hackers could compromise computers with simple “drive-by” attack tactics. The vulnerability, discovered by Polish security researcher...