Tag Archives : Symantec

Hackers in China are reported to be at forefront of attacking and defacing other countries websites, the tide was turned yesterday when China’s Internet was hit with a major DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack Sunday morning that briefly disrupted and slowed access to sites carrying .cn domain. According to the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) attack was the largest [...]

Image via Wikipedia Adobe is investigating reports of vulnerability in Flash being exploited. It looks like, after malicious Acrobat PDF files get on a computer, they start exploiting the vulnerability to drop a Trojan onto it. Flash is a very popular add-on to most browsers and is also available in PDF files. Symantec stated that any software that uses Flash could come under attack until a fix is [...]