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The month May has always been dedicated to several traditionally important security industry events of the year. G Data is always present at these events and was playing a very important role this time.

The G Data SecurityLabs discovered code injections into Wordpress pages, which are potentially dangerous. Attackers managed to inject code and convert the websites into “zombie” websites, which can be controlled from afar.

The summer season has always been a mixture of holidays and launching new initiatives against cyberthreats if you look back at the past months.

This month’s top 10 again shows the prevalence of attacks against PC users using Java. 50% of the Top 10 attacks tried to intrude the computers exploiting vulnerabilities that have already been fixed with an update, provided by Oracle since March 2010.

Lots of companies and home users “have their head in the clouds” moving their services, servers and data to the cloud without realizing they are using the cloud since a decade already and they have never given any thought about security of using services from the cloud. Even now, with financial…

We have reported numerous times about the dangers that lure around as soon as any kind of special holiday is around or a hot topic floods the news. And, as expected: Recently, there has been various malware connected to Osama Bin Laden. Let's have a look at two examples:

Pure entertainment and manifold possibilities to enjoy yourself - that is what Sony PlayStation® Network stands for. There are tons of games and movies available, only one click away and easily ordered by credit card. But suddenly, the colorful world stopped turning.

It never stays quiet on the internet and new attacks or malware are seen every day. The last week however we saw an interesting mass SQL injection attack, referred to as Lizamoon, which was spreading and has infected several millions of URLs last week (March 29 until April 4). Even after a week,…

G Data’s Security Evangelist Eddy Willems will speak at this year’s Virus Bulletin Conference in Vancouver. Alongside Righard Zwienenberg, Chief Research Officer at Norman ASA, Willems will be explaining the security risks that companies often don’t even think about: the (un)intentional harm…

Two researchers released information on a vulnerability in Sun's Java Runtime Environment that could give attackers a new point of attack to perform drive-by-downloads and compromise targeted clients on all current versions of Windows operating systems and several popular browsers.