Vulnerabilities in .Net Framework

They are the ones that will allow the attacker to drop some kind of trojans in to any kind of software like adobe, Flash player, Microsoft .Net. Mostly, people with high level of expertise only can find these vulnerabilities and can access the code of the software and changes it.

Vulnerability

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Androidos. Geinimi.A

This is another trojan that affects the Android OS and it is considered as more dangerous as it is spreading more and due to the increased potential for damage, or both, that it possesses. This Backdoor may be unknowingly downloaded by a user while visiting malicious websites that can download malicious content in to the mobile phone. It connects to the server of those sites and sends and receives commands from malicious user.

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Top Viruses in 2010

There are so many different types of computer viruses that show up from time to time, so it is important to understand the differences between these various types. Malwares, Worms, Viruses, Trojans etc.

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Michealangelo Virus

It is a typical infection that effects diskette boot records and the master boot record of hard disks, with one exception. On March 6, if the PC is an AT or a PS/2, the virus overwrites the first one hundred sectors of the hard disk with nulls. The virus assumes a geometry of 256 cylinders, 4 heads, 17 sectors per track. Although all the user's data would still be on the hard disk, it would be irretrievable for the average user.

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Logic Bomb

Logic Bomb

Logical bomb program is similar to a Trojan horse that have the same ability to damage data as well. Logic bombs include a timing device so that it will go off at a particular date and time. The Michelangelo virus is embedded in a logic bomb, for example. Other virus programs often include coding similar to that used in logic bombs, but the bombs can be very destructive on their own, even if they lack the ability of the virus to reproduce.

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Two New Year Threats

Facebook has been updating its site and improving it for better usability. Unfortunately this has given a chance to the attackers; cyber criminals to take advantage of it and exploit the social networking site for inserting malicious content.

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Man in the Middle and Redirection Attacks

We use to play a game where two people throw the ball to each other while the third person in the middle will have to intercept the ball then he changes the position with the person from whom he has intercepted the ball.

In the cyberworld, the game of keep-away gets a new twist; the two players have no idea the man in the middle (MITM) exists. It works like this:

• Computer A initiates conversation with Computer B
• Computer C intercepts that attempt and then relays the request to Computer B
• Computer B responds, Computer C intercepts it, and returns that response to Computer A. 

While the computer C has intercepted the communication between A and B it may change the data in the communication or even redirect it to an entirely different new destination while computer A still thinks that it is receiving the information from computer B.

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