Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Security researchers warned this week of a vulnerability in most Web browsers which could potentially allow scammers to launch phishing attacks from pop-up windows on trusted Web sites.
The vulnerability arises when an Internet user opens browser windows for both a legitimate Web site and a malicious site at the same ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Last week, InfoWorld columnist Oliver Rist recommended that you stop using Microsoft Internet Explorer as your browser. He had good reason: The latest vulnerability reports point out some significant security holes in IE that aren?t going to be easily overcome.
According to Rist (who is sitting behind me while I write ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
US CERT (the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team), is advising people to ditch Internet Explorer and use a different browser after the latest security vulnerability in the software was exposed.
A statement on the CERT site said: "There are a number of significant vulnerabilities in technologies relating to the IE domain/zone ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Security in all mainstream operating systems is non-existent; however, things are especially bad for Windows. Windows happens to be the favourite target of worm and virus writers. Conventional wisdom suggests that the huge installed base of Windows helps spread the worms and viruses, and also makes it a highly attractive ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Mike Healan
March 23, 2004
If you've ever been infected with a browser hijacker, you know what an infuriating situation it is. For all intents and purposes, your $3,000 computer is converted into a source of revenue for some fly-by-night web site unable to generate legitimate web traffic. Once ...
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