Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
I'm not sure if this is an isolated incident or another mass attack through third party advertising like what had happened with Facebook a while back, but the folks over at ha.ckers.org are reporting a case where one of their users was browsing their Yahoo Mail account and got hit with ...
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Friday, March 14th, 2008
For security reasons one might want to disable or block downloading through Internet Explorer. There could be several other reasons for this including building a secure Internet kiosk, protecting your PC from malicious files, etc.
So far as I know, this should work with IE 6 or 7. I tested it ...
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Friday, March 14th, 2008
Published: 2008-03-14,
Last Updated: 2008-03-14 15:33:49 UTC
by Kevin Liston (Version: 1)
Situation:
Over 10,000 legitimate websites have been compromised and now have an iframe that will direct visitors to a malicious website hosted on 2117966(dot)net. The malicious website attempts to exploit the vulnerability described in MS06-014 and a number of ActiveX vulnerabilities.
Successful exploitation ...
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Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - YouTube, Google Inc's popular video-sharing site, is giving away tools that let Web developers tap the underlying database functions of YouTube, in effect allowing users to build their own YouTubes.
The Silicon Valley-based video-sharing site said on Wednesday that it is providing wholesale access to YouTube's extensive ...
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
A serious Gmail account hacking backdoor, has been found in the popular Gmail archiving software G-Archiver. This application, in all its innocence, allows you to download and backup all emails from your GMail account. But apparently the developer included the code to send an email to his email ID with ...
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