Thread: Adobe will reinstate Microsoft as hacker's objective

Specialists in the midst of a tea and tarot cards, working on the company McAfee, which is engaged in building and supporting anti-virus software, predict that the attention of hackers trying to open a link from Microsoft for picking products in the Adobe. In 2009, among the attacks on the client software has sharply increased the proportion of attacks on production Adobe, Flash and Acrobat Reader. McAfee expects that next year the situation could deteriorate even more, and the number of attacks against application vulnerabilities in Flash over the Internet and Acrobat documents via e-mail will increase substantially. "We expect that in 2010 the attacks on desktop computers exploitation of holes in the products of Adobe, is likely to exceed the attack on the application Microsoft Office", ─ the report said.

McAfee says the good news. According to experts, in 2009 marked a turning point in the fight against cyber-crime. Law enforcement authorities finally learned the very least monitor, identify and catch cyber criminals, which is illustrated by the history of two major breakups this year. "McAfee believes that in 2010 we will see many new successes in tracking down organized criminals", ─ McAfee said in the report. ─ "Cooperation between international agencies to combat cyber-crime is now stronger, and Eliot Ness have advanced computer and network sophistication, of which their predecessors could only dream of 10 years ago." Note: Eliot Ness (Eliot Ness, 1903 - 1957) ─ a special agent of the Ministry of Finance, who managed to put the gangster Al Capone in prison for 11 years.

McAfee also predicts that by 2010 social networks will fall into the sights of hackers, but their user base will grow. Among other areas of attack will HTML5 and Google Chrome OS, as they try to "blur the line between desktop and online applications, creating more potential vulnerabilities. Corporations and ordinary users are constantly faced with ever more difficult Trojans, which could interrupt the legitimate banking transactions, for example, for unauthorized withdrawals. However, as more combat cybercrime botnets will decrease, and possibly act less efficiently.

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Adobe will reinstate Microsoft as hacker's objective hackers have exploited flaws in a popular open-source advertising software to place malicious code on advertisements on several popular Web sites over the past week.
The attackers are taking advantage of a pair of bugs in the OpenX advertising software to login to advertising servers and then place malicious code on ads being served on the sites. On Monday, cartoon syndicator King Features said that it had been hacked last week, because of the OpenX bugs. The company's Comics Kingdom product, which delivers comics and ads to about 50 Web sites, was affected.



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