Thursday, September 10th, 2009
It's no secret that criminals are stealing credit card and bank account data and selling it underground. But most people would find it shocking to learn just how little their sensitive personal information costs.
Symantec on Thursday is launching its Norton Online Risk Calculator, a tool that people can use to ...
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Wednesday, September 9th, 2009
Firefox 3.5.3 fixes the following security issues:
Chrome privilege escalation with FeedWriter
Location bar spoofing via tall line-height Unicode characters
TreeColumns dangling pointer vulnerability
Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.9.1.3/1.9.0.14)
Help > Check for Updates or download here:
http://www.mozilla.com/firefox
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Wednesday, September 9th, 2009
Conventional wisdom is that Web wanderers are safe as long as they avoid sites that serve up pornography, stock tips, games and the like. But according to recently gathered research from Boston-based IT security and control firm Sophos, sites we take for granted are not as secure as they appear.Among ...
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Tuesday, September 8th, 2009
We've known we would run out of IPv4 addresses since 1981, when the Internet Protocol was standardized. The numbers dictate that there will never be more than 4,294,967,296 different IPv4 addresses. (4 billion and change being the number of combinations that can be made with IPv4's 32 address bits). Before ...
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Tuesday, September 8th, 2009
Parents who install a leading brand of software to monitor their kids' online activities may be unwittingly allowing the company to read their children's chat messages — and sell the marketing data gathered.Software sold under the Sentry and FamilySafe brands can read private chats conducted through Yahoo, MSN, AOL and ...
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