Thursday, November 27th, 2008
A DANGEROUS new variant of malware is attacking PCs in the UK, the INQ has discovered. It hijacks the victim's browser and directs them to a fake site masquerading as AVG's own front page.
THE URL which the INQ has discovered is http://0fficial-page-com/AVG1. [Note that it uses a zero not a ...
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Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
The pre-release version 1.0.5 of Wireshark, the network protocol analyser (or "packet sniffer"), has eliminated a vulnerability that could make it crash. It is reported that the error occurs during the analysis of over-long SMTP requests to a server. When the final version 1.0.5 will appear is still unknown, but ...
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Monday, November 24th, 2008
Is it possible for someone to create a malicious filter without having access to your Gmail username and password? No, however, they can force you to create the filter without your knowledge.
The blogosphere is buzzing about a Gmail Security Flaw that has caused some people to lose their domain names ...
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Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
According to a report by VoIPshield, a VoIP security service provider, Microsoft's Office Communications Server (OCS), Office Communicator and Windows Messenger contain vulnerabilities that can be exploited for Denial of Service attacks. The applications can be crashed using specially crafted packets.
VoIPshield does not want to release more detailed information until ...
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Monday, November 17th, 2008
According to the UK-based Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI), an error in the secure shell protocol (SSH) specification can in rare cases be exploited to reconstruct part of the plain text. According to their description of the error, the standard OpenSSH configuration allows 32 bits of plain ...
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