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Gargantuan SQL injection infects 3.8 million URLs, installs rogue antivirus

Over the last few days, a mass SQL injection attack has been quickly gathering speed. Just three days ago only 28,000 URLs were affected, but at the time of writing, there could be up to 3.8 million infected URLs. Websense has a complete write up the attack, dubbed 'LizaMoon,' but here's the basic gist: it looks like someone is exploiting a vulnerabilty (or vulnerabilities) in hundreds of ...

New rogue antivirus app has a hate-on for Malwarebytes

If there's one anti-malware application that we (and you) hold near and dear, it's Malwarebytes. How do you know when your crapware-fighting application has really made it big? When it starts being targeted by rogue antivirus software, of course. Protection System -- which sounds about as real as The Christopher Guest School for Mixed Martial Arts -- detects MBAM during its bogus scan procedure ...