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Panda Security is preparing to launch its new security solutions and offers its users to test free time to phase beta test.

The computer security company Panda Security has just communicate on the launch of Panda Antivirus Pro 2009 and Panda Internet Security 2009, the next versions of its antivirus solution and its suite of Internet security for the operating systems Windows XP and Windows Vista . They will be available by late summer.

Pending marketing, Panda Internet Security offers a free trial of the beta versions, while receiving regular updates. The beta-testers who will back incidents will also benefit from a 50% discount on the price of the final version.

The term “indicent”, it is understood “a failure or error occurs during the installation process, uninstall or operation of the virus. The incidents may relate to problems of interaction with other programs , Error detection or errors to update the product.” However, it is clearly stated that “comments on the aesthetics or the friendliness of the solution are regarded as suggestions and do not therefore fall within the definition of incidents”.

For those interested, they can go to this page to participate in beta-test.

Less than a day after its launch, a vulnerability has been detected in Firefox 3.0. The Mozilla team in charge of security investigates in the greatest secrecy.

The Firefox 3.0 browser made its debut on the Web on Tuesday, the price of a high-profile launch with a purely symbolic record to the key. But it was written that besides this race to the downloading another race was going to take place, the one of the first researcher in computer security that would succeed detecting the presence of a vulnerability in the inquisitive one. Pari also won in less than 24 hours, and even exactly 5 hours after the official launch, under the auspices of the initiative TippingPoint Zero Day of the sulphurous reputation as remunerating researchers for their discoveries.

Inauguration for Firefox 3
For the rest, everything is placed under the seal of secrecy and just can you read that this vulnerability to immediate action whose veracity has been validated by TippingPoint, needs to be exploited user interaction to click on a link in an e-mail or direct consultation of a malicious Web page. The result then the execution of arbitrary code. Note that this vulnerability also affects the 2.0.x previous versions of Firefox.

Mozilla has been advised of this discovery, and until a patch is not proposed any technical information will be disclosed, from TippingPoint anyway. On the blog of Mozilla security, Window Snyder confirms that this vulnerability was brought to its attention. They want themselves nevertheless very reassuring to users, underlining although no exploit was made public, that the details are private and therefore very minimal risks for the time being.

The virus Gpcode master singer is back with a key RSA 1024 bit that remains to be broken. To do this, Kaspersky Lab asks for help and launched an operation Stop Gpcode.

An old acquaintance resurfaced talk about it and that is once again Kaspersky Lab who sounded the alert. Already in 2007 the malicious code Gpcode had about him, more by its singularity by its real danger. Taxed virus master singer, Gpcode has usually encrypt files of various types found on the infected machine (.Doc, .Txt, .Pdf, .Xls, .Jpg, .Png, .Cpp, .H). , And then ask for a ransom in exchange for allowing a utility decryption. Today, rebelote with a new variant in circulation, but the threat is climb one step for Windows users that lack of vigilance or a solution anti-virus software up to date, have their computers infected.

For its operation encryption, Gpcode used in the past one RSA encryption algorithm with key variable length which have always been broken. The key to the longest was of 660 bits, and Kaspersky had indicated then that he normally would have taken 30 years to a PC with a 2.2 GHz processor to overcome them. Now Virus32.Gpcode.ak according to the name used by Kaspersky Lab, using a key RSA 1024 bit more difficult to break, but a real challenge that the publisher has decided to raise with the help of good souls. Well insist on the fact that the definition of that virus has already been added to the bases viral Kaspersky Lab, and others rest. Breaking the key does not cover an absolute necessity, except perhaps for reckless trapped.

With its Operation Stop Gpcode, the Russian publisher invites “all encryption specialists around the world to gather their efforts to decipher the key RSA 1024 bit,” he wrote in a press release stating that it is is a cryptographic challenge of the most complex. A forum dedicated to this transaction was made online.

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Regarding the modus operandi of Gpcode, after a file encryption, its extension is changed ._CRYPT And the virus then place a text file titled !_READ_ME_.txt In the same case. This text file tells the user to decrypt the file, it must buy a specific utility. In such cases, Kaspersky Lab asks the victim did not respond and make contact at stopgcode@kaspersky.com with another computer. In addition, the infected machine should not be restarted or turned off.