Archive for January, 2009

Almost All of Computers Vulnerable of Cyber Attack

Friday, January 30th, 2009

Copenhagen – More than 98 percent of Windows computers vulnerable to the cyber criminals because it contains at least 1 application that is not in the patch. In fact, nearly 50 percent of computers have 11 or more programs that affected the risk cyber attacks. That is quite surprising that the statistics cited security bureau based in Copenhagen, Secunia. Secunia revealed the data based on utility-based research through the Personal Software Inspector (PSI) that are installed in the consumer computer.

According to Thomas Kristensen, Secunia Chief Technology Officer, utility that can track the existence of applications that have not been in the patch. Secunia then randomly select the 20,000 machines that have been adopted as the PSI study.

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Apple Mac Users are Requested to Use Anti Virus

Sunday, January 25th, 2009

Operating System Mac OS X often considered quite safe from malicious hack programs. However, it seems, Mac users now need to increase the security. This has not been long, at the Apple support site, Apple recommends the consumers using the Mac more than one antivirus application to be more secure. Quoted from detikINET, Apple gave three options for the recommended anti-virus, ie, Intego VirusBarrier x5, McAfee VirusScan for Mac, and Symantec Norton Anti-Virus 11 for Macintosh.

During this time, Mac OS X is more secure rather than Windows. One reason is because the virus spread the virus with the benefit of Windows that is used by more users.

However, over time, Microsoft Windows market trends show a decrease in the Mac and vice versa. According to Net Applications, in 2004 the market share reached 96.36 percent of the Windows and Mac reached 3.25 percent.

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Worms Infected 1 Million PC in a Day, Surprisingly

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009

Truly I am surprise to know this. Just in time of 24 hours, the worms exploit a bug Windows infected more than one million of Windows PC. As noted from detikINET, Finnish security company F-Secure, estimates that the number of PCs infected by worm called “Downadup” is now increased from a previous 2.4 million to 3.5 million.

According to several security companies, the worm is also called “Conficker” This exploit a bug in the Windows Server service used to support all versions of Microsoft operating systems, such as Windows 2000, XP, Vista, Server 2003 and Server 2008.

The increase dramatically the number of the infected PC “Downadup”, Microsoft is pushing to add detection for the worm Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT), ie the anti-malware tools from Microsoft.

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Windows 7 Pirated before It’s Release

Thursday, January 15th, 2009

Well, pirate software are never stop. Although not yet officially released, Windows 7 already pirated. Not only pirated, the program intruded any mallicious program in it. As I read from DetikINET, computer security researchers have found the RC version of Windows 7 pirated circulating on the internet. Not only unofficial, Windows 7 is equipped with a type of malicious program Trojan Downloader.

Malicious program infection in pirated Windows 7 that is going fast enough. At its peak, the level of infection reached 200 minutes per computer.

Program evil in pirated Windows 7 is trying to create a network of infected computers (botnet). Network of this kind will be used to send viruses, spam or conduct cyber attacks.

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NOD32 Ready for ‘Cleaning’ Indonesia

Saturday, January 10th, 2009

One again, product antivirus come to Indonesia. Indonesia is a member of the ESET Worldwide, as the producer of NOD32 anti virus. ESET Australia or who have the official name Prosperita PT Mitra Indonesia is optimistic company can market to Indonesia.

Chrissie Maryanto, Marketing Director, ESET Indonesia confident with strong support from the technology, ESET will expand the market of anti-virus that already exists.

ESET reliable technology that is based on Advanced ThreatSense Technology Heurictics, who claimed the product is different from the other anti-virus because it is no longer rely on Signature Library.

“So that can detect new types of threats proactively,” Yudhi Kukuh said, Technical Consultant Security ESET in Indonesia, as noted from DetikInet.

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The Most Dangerous Virus at May 2009

Monday, January 5th, 2009

Today I read interesting article from DetikInet about most dangerous virus at May 2009.  It was published by Kapersky. Kaspersky Security Network released a list of top 20 virus attacks in the month of May. There are two newcomers in the list of malware that attack. What are they?

There are two lists published by Kaspersky. First list contained list of dangerous programs (Malware), Adware, and unwanted programs are the most commonly detected by the computer user. Here is the list of them :

1. Net-Worm.Win32.Kido.ih
2. Virus.Win32.Sality.aa
3. Trojan-Dropper.Win32.Flystud.ko
4. Trojan.Win32.Autoit.ci
5. Trojan.JS.Agent.xy
6. Exploit.HTML.CodeBaseExec
7. Trojan-Downloader.Win32.VB.eql
8. Trojan.Win32.Chifrax.a
9. Virus.Win32.Virut.ce
10. Virus.Win32.Sality.z
11. Worm.Win32.AutoRun.dui
12. Packed.Win32.Krap.b
13. Packed.Win32.Black.a
14. Worm.Win32.Mabezat.b
15. Virus.Win32.Alman.b
16. Packed.Win32.Klone.bj
17. P2P-Worm.Win32.Palevo.ddm
18. Trojan.Win32.Swizzor.a
19. Exploit.JS.Agent.agc
20. Email-Worm.Win32.Brontok.q

No significant changes in the Top 20 in May. There are only two newcomers in this list, that is, the P2P-Worm.Win32.Palevo.ddm and Trojan.Win32.Swizzor.a.

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Blue-Ray Technology

Thursday, January 1st, 2009

New technology is now making it doable for audience to publish and keep high definition programming against DVDs. Blu-ray album is one routine of publishing HD content against an optical album. A cobalt-laser optical album (MPEG-2 or MPEG-4) is worn. Systems that use this technology will be able to play traditional DVDs, but the goal of Blu-ray is to make an likeness that’s as close to the HD design as doable. The name Blu-ray comes from the cobalt laser that decodes and copies indesignion to each diskette. Blu-ray technology may very well revolutionize the world of high definition programming. The Blu-ray album design offers better ability for storeroom, regularly 25 gigabytes, which exceeds that of a orthodox DVD (15 gigabytes). One distinct-layer Blu-ray diskette can imprison about four hours of high definition content. A two-layer diskette can surround eight hours of HD content. Four- and eight-layer diskettes are now in the mechanism. These diskettes would have storeroom capabilities of 100 and 200 gigabytes. The Blu-ray publishing approach operates a shorter waveduration for publishing indesignion than traditional CDs and DVDs, and this is part of what allows it to imprison more content on a distinct diskette.

Blu-ray has also influenced the notebook trade, specifically in provisos of figures storeroom capability. A number of main companies have come out in carry of Blu-ray, counting Apple, hollow, Hitachi, prepare, and Sony. Hewlett Packard policy to souk desktop notebooks and laptops that operate Blu-ray technology. Sony has announced that it will launch a Blu-ray section in PlayStation 3, which is projected to grow in November of this year. Microsoft has also said that it may add a Blu-ray section to its Xbox 360. presently, Blu-ray is only vacant in Japan, but it will grow in the United States in May, in cartridge playoffs and a DVD approach that remakes a high definition upshot on a viewer’s TV.

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