Malware

Adobe on Wednesday confirmed a dangerous Reader and Acrobat vulnerability, which is being exploited in the wild.

Cybercriminals this week took advantage of a cross-site scripting vulnerability on Twitter that since has been fixed, according to security researchers

Security giant Symantec said it has secured its "Hack is Wack" contest website after researchers discovered it was riddled with vulnerabilities.

A 19-year-old Saskatchewan resident was charged with launching a cyberattack on a business based in New York City.

Attackers took to Twitter on Monday to spread malware via links pointing to what they claimed was an update to the popular microblogging client TweetDeck.

A quarter of new worms this year specifically have been designed to spread through USB storage devices, researchers at Panda Security said Thursday. This malware typically is designed to copy itself to any device capable of storing information, including flash sticks, cell phones, external hard drives, DVDs, and MP3 players. The malware is highly effective and typically runs automatically when a USB device is connected to a computer, silently infecting the system. — AM

Efforts by a security company have resulted in the crippling of the notorious Pushdo, or Cutwail, botnet infrastructure.