Security experts have found a vulnerability in the Windows operating system that could allow malware to lurk undetected in long string names of the Windows Registry. According to a security advisory by Denmark-based IT security company Secunia, the weakness is caused by an error in the Windows Registry Editor Utility's handling of long string names.
A research company in the financial services field recently discovered that it takes only one unethical person to single-handedly cause a major corporation.
An attacker could trick a user of Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer (IE) Web browser into downloading and running a malicious program by disguising it as an innocent file, a Finnish security company has warned.
An attacker could trick a user of Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer (IE) Web browser into downloading and running a malicious program by disguising it as an innocent file, a Finnish security company has warned.