Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
I got forwarded this link today from businesswire about how Google and Yahoo are now going to be armed with the information necessary to look at and extract information out of SWF files. Ho-boy, here we go. The link was sent to me with the “bad juju” caveat, and I’m ...
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Monday, June 2nd, 2008
The reported security hole in Flash Player can now be given the all clear. The general consensus is that users of the current version 9.0.124.0 are safe. For the first time ever Secunia, one of the most reliable sources of information about security issues, has even revoked its advisory about ...
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Sunday, June 1st, 2008
XSS (Cross-Site Scripting) Very Much Alive and Kicking
We were about to investigate further on malicious activities related to banner82(dot)com/b.js but the URL was already inaccessible around Tuesday. Soon enough the malicious script in www(dot)adw95(dot)com caught our interest. A rough survey of the sites compromised by this script reveal that the ...
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
If you troubleshoot Windows PCs for fun or profit, then chances are you’ve used one or more tools from Sysinternals. Microsoft bought the company and its amazing library of diagnostic, troubleshooting, and management utilities in 2006, and the collection has been continually updated ever since. It’s also still completely free.
A few weeks ...
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Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
An unpatched bug in Adobe Systems' Flash Player software is being exploited by online criminals, Symantec reported Monday.
Few details on the bug are available, but the flaw lies in the latest version of the Adobe Flash Player browser plugin, which is widely used by Internet surfers to view animated Web ...
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