If you are reading this blog, you probably already know what Conficker is. If you don’t, then Conficker is one of the prominent viruses from last few years that continues to infect computers running Microsoft Windows through its several variants. Conficker is also reportedly building a botnet of the infected machines; botnets are used to [...]

Stuxnet is the first malware in recent history that attacked industrial control systems also known as SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) systems developed by Siemens (Siemens SIMATIC WinCC). These systems monitor and control critical industrial facilities like nuclear power plants, power grids etc. Clearly, any security breach in such systems can have far reaching [...]

Summary Microsoft released a security advisory on Aug 23 that discusses a remote attack vector that allows an attacker to remotely take control of user’s machine. The security advisory was in response to a report released by a security researcher the previous week that described how more than 40 Windows applications could be compromised due [...]