Zero Day

The Pirate Bay is back online. An Anonymous traitor who goes by the name AnonNyre has claimed responsibility for the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack that kept the site offline for days.

The Pirate Bay is down. Wikileaks is down. Visa was down. Are all these Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks a coincidence? Right now it’s not clear, but something is definitely happening.

Apple QuickTime version 7.7.2 is out, fixing 17 security vulnerabilities in the multimedia framework. This is a security update, meaning no new features have been added. You should still update.

The hacktivist group Anonymous has denied allegations that it is behind the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack against The Pirate Bay. Meanwhile, The Pirate Bay remains down and out.

The Pirate Bay is down for me. Is it down for you? It may be, since the site has confirmed it is experiencing “a quite big” Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. It’s unclear who is behind it.

F-Secure has found that between Q1 2011 and Q1 2012, the number of Android malware families has increased from 10 to 37, and the number of malicious Android APKs has increased from 139 to 3,069.

Google Chrome version 19.0.1084.46 is out, fixing 20 security vulnerabilities in the company’s browser: eight high-severity flaws, seven medium-severity flaws, and five low-severity flaws.

Wikipedia is warning its users that seeing ads on its website usually means your computer is infected with some type of malware. Most of the time, this means a rogue browser add-on or extension.

Avira has sent out a defective antivirus update that is causing paid versions of its product to block critical Windows processes and third-party software, effectively rendering millions of PCs unusable.

Adobe has changed course and will now backport the fixes to existing software versions.

What if a user does not need or cannot justify paying for the new features in a product upgrade that includes a security fix? That user is a sitting duck to malware attacks.

In this week’s Q&A, I chat with Jeffrey Carr, the founder and CEO of Taia Global, and the author of ‘Inside Cyber Warfare: Mapping the Cyber Underworld’, on the current state of the cyber-warfare threat.

Apple has released Safari 5.1.7. The new version automatically disables out-of-date versions of Adobe Flash Player. Unfortunately, a closer look shows that this really isn’t that big of a deal.

Google Chrome has started warning its users that phys.org contains malware. Until this issue has been cleared up, avoid the website to be on the safe side. Updates will be posted in this article.

You can’t make this stuff up. Virgin followed a court order to block The Pirate Bay. Anonymous executed a DDoS attack against Virgin. The Pirate Bay denounced Anonymous for its attack.

According to independent industry reports, Iran has banned the import of foreign security software, and has been secretly working on its own antivirus solution since 2010.

Apple has released OS X Lion 10.7.4. The update includes performance improvements as well as a bunch of fixes, including the FileVault bug that was recently widely covered across the Web.

Security researchers from AegisLab have spotted numerous fake mobile antivirus scanners, currently available for download at Google’s Play marketplace.