The Fake Firefox Update contains Trojan, which will definitely harm your computer as well as your web contant. The trojan can steal your password as well as automatically delete your files stored in it!!! This trojan can even delete your web accounts!!! So update your Firefox untile surely come to know that it is safe!!! I have no clue which update is Trojan Free, but Update only when your Browser notify you to do it. Turn On your Browser Notifications. If you have Internet Security then you are probably safe.
Below Some of the Harm and Incidents which are already happened: -
Below Some of the Harm and Incidents which are already happened: -
- Fake Firefox update includes password-stealing trojan
Security specialist Sophos reports that it has discovered new spam email messages that claim to be an advisory related to an update to the open source Firefox web browser. The fake advisory asks users to update their Firefox installations, “for security reasons”, and includes a download link to the supposed update. - Malware network gains from new malvertising attack
A malware delivery network said to be the world’s largest has tapped on Web advertisements as its latest modus operandi for fake antivirus attacks, according to Blue Coat Systems. - Images used to break into BlackBerry servers
RIM has issued a warning of a critical security hole in its BlackBerry Enterprise Server, which attackers can use to compromise a system remotely. - Consumers Union: Beware when buying by cell phone
T-Mobile USA customers who purchase digital goods online and opt to have the charge show up on their phone bill are vulnerable to fraud, according to Consumers Union. - Hong Kong stock exchange halts trading after hack attack
Hackers broke into the Hong Kong stock exchange news Web site this past Wednesday, forcing the exchange to suspend trading of seven companies, according to The Wall Street Journal. - Google also passes on European data to US authorities
Google is making data that is stored in its European data centres accessible to authorities in the United States. When asked by the German language WirtschaftsWoche magazine, a company spokesperson said that Google has passed on European user data to US intelligence services on several occasions. - Apple updates malware definitions for fake Flash Player trojan
With the most recent trojan threat in the fake Flash installer, Apple has again updated its XProtect definitions property list, so in the next day or two OS X systems will be updated to automatically handle this threat if exposed to it. - 22 holes closed in Microsoft’s August Patch Tuesday
As announced, Microsoft has issued 13 bulletins to close a total of 22 vulnerabilities on its August Patch Tuesday. Most of the holes are in Internet Explorer, as described in bulletin MS11-057. - Adobe fixes critical vulnerabilities in four products on patch day
On its official patch day, Adobe has released updates to fix security vulnerabilities in five products: Shockwave Player, Flash Media Server, Flash Player, Photoshop CS5 and RoboHelp. - North Korea’s army of online game hackers
The New York Times reports that North Korea has unleashed a squad of hackers to infiltrate South Korean gaming sites. The two countries have technically been at war for almost 60 years, and cyber-attacks are the modern-day equivalent to a slap in the face. - Free web service cracks internet kiosks
At the Defcon hacker conference, which ended on Sunday, New Zealand security specialist Paul Craig released version 5 of iKAT (Interactive Kiosk Attack Tool). iKAT is a free web service that tries to bypass the protective mechanisms of internet kiosk PCs and gain control of the systems. - Firefox 8 to tell aggressive add-ons to back off
Mozilla is taking steps to protect users from programs that install add-ons in Firefox without user permission, citing numerous reasons including security concerns and the desire to make sure that the person using Firefox has ultimate control of the add-ons installed. - Twitpic founder says Heello to Twitter clone
Noah Everett is looking to take out the bird with one clone. The Twitpic founder appears to be serving up a bit of revenge with his latest venture, Heello, a feature-for-feature Twitter clone, right down to the “@” symbol and the pastel tones. - Cisco and Twitter join Linux patent protection pool
Cisco, the networking giant and Twitter, the social networking company, have joined the Linux patent protection organization, Open Invention Network, along with a host of other companies. - Researchers: Anonymous and LulzSec need to focus their chaos
The online vigilante groups Anonymous and LulzSec are weakening their cause with scattershot attacks and need to get more intelligent and focused, according to a panel of computer security experts at the DefCon hacker conference in Las Vegas.
