Saturday, September 5th, 2009
Microsoft officials are reporting limited attacks targeting a zero-day vulnerability in the FTP service in Internet Information Services.The IIS vulnerability warning follows the release of new exploit code that can be used to create a DoS (denial of service) condition on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 without requiring Write ...
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Saturday, September 5th, 2009
Microsoft will roll out a total of five critical patches for numerous versions of Windows operating systems in its upcoming September "Patch Tuesday" security update release, according to a Microsoft Advanced Notification bulletin posted Thursday.All five patches plug holes that allow remote code execution, indicating that hackers could remotely exploit ...
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Saturday, September 5th, 2009
Mozilla has expanded on the plans they acknowledged yesterday to check the version of Flash you are running to make sure that it's not outdated.In a comment in that same blog, in response to a question I asked, Mozilla's Director of Evangelism Christopher Blizzard added a few more points: ...
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Tuesday, September 1st, 2009
FireMaster is the first ever built tool to recover the lost master password in Firefox. Master password is used by Firefox to protect the stored sign-on information for all visited websites. If the master password is forgotten, then there is no way to recover the master password and user will ...
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Thursday, August 27th, 2009
Computer scientists in Japan say they've developed a way to break the WPA encryption system used in wireless routers in about one minute.
The attack gives hackers a way to read encrypted traffic sent between computers and certain types of routers that use the WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) encryption system. The ...
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