Wednesday, October 8th, 2008
A popular free security tool for the Firefox browser has been upgraded to block one of the most dangerous and troubling security problems facing the Web today.
NoScript is a small application that integrates into Firefox. It blocks scripts in programming languages such as JavaScript and Java from executing on untrusted ...
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Wednesday, October 8th, 2008
Online banks use cryptographic protocols to secure the exchange of information on the Web, and hackers do not hesitate to adapt to this technology too. A new case of fake SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) certificates appeared again, following phishing threats we’ve seen last April and May.
This time, the website of ...
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Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
Underscoring the severity of a new class of vulnerability known as clickjacking, a blogger has created a proof-of-concept game that uses a PC's video cam and microphone to secretly spy on the player.
The demo, which is available here, appears to be a simple game that tests how quickly a user ...
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Friday, October 3rd, 2008
Things are a-brewin’ in Sweden. Sweden is not just home of the infamous bikini team, it is also the home of Outpost 24, an equally sexy software-as-a-service network scanning service, and the employer of my friend Robert E. Lee and his colleague Jack C. Louis. These guys are the inventors ...
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Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
Even routinely clean antivirus scans can’t hide the dirty little secret more enterprises are facing today: Some of their client machines are members of botnets.
That’s why Matt Sergeant, senior anti-spam technologist for MessageLabs Ltd. , hopes to educate some large organizations and ISPs on how to detect and clean up ...
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