Skype said it is investigating a new tool that collects a person’s last known IP address, a potential privacy-compromising issue. View full post on Techworld.com security View full post on National Cyber Security » Computer Hacking
Guardian Analytics launches mobile banking fraud detection tool
Guardian Analytics launched FraudMAP Mobile this morning, a product for financial institutions that detects possible fraudulent online banking transactions executed with a mobile device. FraudMAP Mobile is an extension of the security vendor’s FraudMAP Online product for desktop computers, which studies how a bank’s customer uses an online banking site….
Faronics Simplifies Security with New Application Control Tool
VANCOUVER, British Columbia–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Faronics, a global leader in simplifying, securing and managing multi-user computer environments, has released a new version of Faronics Anti-Executable, the company’s flagship application control tool that ensures endpoint security by only permitting approved executables to run on a workstation or server. The new release simplifies…
Flashback malware removal tool arrives for Java-less Mac users
Apple has released another Flashback malware removal tool—this time for OS X Lion users who do not have Java installed. At the moment, Apple doesn’t offer a similar stand-alone tool for earlier versions of the OS. Earlier this week Apple acknowledged the presence of malware being spread by a Java…
Flashback malware removal tool roundup
The Apple community is tackling the Flashback malware threat for OS X. Despite these efforts, the malware is still out there with the potential to infect unpatched Mac systems or even those that are patched, but for which the user fell for the fake Flash updater traps used by earlier…
Apple releases Flashback malware removal tool
4 hrs. Suzanne Choney msnbc.com Apple Thursday issued a software tool that users can download to remove Flashback, the malware that may have infected between 550,000 and 600,000 Macs at its peak in recent weeks. Mac users can get the free tool by clicking on Software Update in the Apple…
Apple to Release Flashback Malware Detection, Removal Tool
The company hasn’t yet said when it expects the tool to be made available. View full post on eSecurityPlanet RSS Feed View full post on National Cyber Security
Apple Developing Flashback Malware Removal Tool
Apple is in the process of developing a tool that will detect and remove the Flashback virus from infected Macs, the company revealed Tuesday. An estimated 600,000 Macs, or the market equivalent of 8.5 million PCs, have been infected with the Flashback Trojan botnet, which was originally discovered last year….
Apple works on malware detection, removal tool
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Apple working on Flashback removal tool
Apple quietly announced today it is working on a tool to detect and remove the Flashback malware currently infecting hundreds of thousands of Mac around the world. “In addition to the Java vulnerability, the Flashback malware relies on computer servers hosted by the malware authors to perform many of its…