Backtrack development team has announced that Backtrack is in process of a major change and the operating system will replaced by the name of Kali. Initially Backtrack was born for personal use by its developers now known as the world number one Pantesing Platform with new tools and options, which is a great news for everyone. […]
In his summary of New Year predictions by security researchers here at ESET, Stephen Cobb pointed to expanded efforts by malware authors to target the Linux operating system. Looks like that might be right: A blog post published by Sucuri yesterday describes a backdoored version of the SSH daemon discovered on compromised servers. Interestingly, this
More than half of all web servers on the Internet use Apache, so when we discovered a malicious Apache module in the wild last month, we were understandably concerned.
Skype has finally announced its latest Skype 4.0 for Linux operating systems and it is now available for download. It took a lot of hard work and time to develop amazing new Skype features for Linux, Skype 4.0 is now available for download and a detailed note on new Skype 4.0 features are given below. Features of Skype […]
National Security Agency’s (NSA) SE Linux team, citing critical gaps in the security of Android , is building a Security Enhanced (SE) version of the publicly available source code for the Android project. This is a variant of the SE Linux project co-developed by NSA and RedHat, which gives (among other things) a more granular
We’ve just come across an IRC controlled backdoor that enables the infected machine to become a bot for Distributed Denial of Service attacks. The interesting part about it is that it’s a Mach-O binary – targeting Mac OS X. ESET’s research team compared this to samples in our malware collection and discovered that this code
The first public beta for ESET NOD32 Antivirus for Mac OS X Desktop is now available. “Based on our technology for BSD, Linux, and Solaris servers, ESET NOD32 Antivirus for Mac OS X Desktop has evolved to provide a GUI and feature set similiar to ESET NOD32 Antivirus for Microsoft Windows.” http://beta.eset.com/macosx The first public beta