Monday, November 3rd, 2008
A worm that exploits the bug Microsoft Corp. patched in an emergency update 11 days ago is actively attacking systems, several security companies and researchers said today.The worm, which Symantec Corp. called Wecorl but was dubbed MS08-067.g by Kaspersky Lab and Microsoft itself, likely originated in China, said Kevin Haley, ...
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Friday, October 10th, 2008
Microsoft Corp. yesterday acknowledged that exploit code is circulating for a vulnerability it acknowledged six months ago, but has yet to patch.
It's not clear whether Microsoft intends to fix the flaw next week.
On Thursday, Microsoft revised a security advisory it first posted April 19 about a bug in Windows XP, ...
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Friday, October 3rd, 2008
Things are a-brewin’ in Sweden. Sweden is not just home of the infamous bikini team, it is also the home of Outpost 24, an equally sexy software-as-a-service network scanning service, and the employer of my friend Robert E. Lee and his colleague Jack C. Louis. These guys are the inventors ...
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Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
You're a smart, safety conscious iPhone user, right? You keep the phone set to require a 4-digit passcode every time it wakes up, so if you ever lose your baby, all your personal information is safe. But if you are running v2.0.2 of the iPhone operating system, you might as ...
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Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
Criticize the people behind the Asprox botnet, and they take it personal—so much so that they will bombard you with malware, according to a report by SecureWorks.
The botnet, now at least 50,000-strong with bots, is sending out phishing e-mails posing as messages from banks in the United States and United ...
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