Companies in Australia and New Zealand are well ahead of world pace in moving away from Windows XP – which is widely expected to become a security nightmare once Microsoft discontinues updates for the platform next Monday – but hundreds of thousands of regional PCs are still running the operating system, according to new statistics from Trend Micro.
Just hours before Adobe is slated to deliver the latest patches for its popular PDF viewer, a security firm announced that by its counting, malicious Reader documents made up 80 percent of all exploits at the end of 2009.
Enhancements to its client honeypot Capture-HPC mean the Honeynet Project tool is now usable by non-experts, says one of its developers, Victoria University’s Christian Seifert.
The percentage of threats arriving in email that rely on links to malicious sites — rather than arriving as a file attachment — has ballooned 10-fold since the first quarter of the year, says a security company.
Security experts are voicing their doubts about suggestions that China tried to hack New Zealand government IT systems, saying it is technically very difficult to identify the point of origin of such attacks.
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