Saturday, March 8th, 2008
The US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) is asking banks to warn their customers against logging into their accounts on public machines. Many computers used for public internet access have surveillance spyware installed on them. The spyware might take screenshots, record keystrokes and monitor web addresses visited; ... then send ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
According to a report from security researcher Dan Kaminsky, the MD5 cryptographic algorithm may be at risk. This means that files, applications and programs supposedly authenticated and verified by MD5 could potentially be compromised.
In a research paper titled, "MD5 To Be Considered Harmful Some Day," Kaminsky expanded on the ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
The Internet Storm Center has announced a very scary discovery. They have found a browser hijacker, installed as a Browser Helper Object (BHO), that will monitor what are supposed to be secure, encrypted browsing sessions and steal passwords. These passwords then are forwarded to a web based script at www.refestltd.com. ...
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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
Activating a password-protected screensaver on users' desktops can provide more protection from unauthorised access than strong network login passwords, according to security firm TruSecure.The company claims organisations are wasting money on expensive security measures and procedures that can actually increase vulnerability to attackers instead of reducing it.
Jay Heiser, chief analyst ...
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