Friday, July 25th, 2008
The Web became a substantially more dangerous place this week, thanks largely to the publication of instructions that show cyber criminals how to exploit a pervasive, critical flaw in the Internet infrastructure.While Internet service providers and corporations can mitigate the danger by updating the software that powers vulnerable components of ...
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Friday, July 25th, 2008
"Gmalware" may be coming soon to your iGoogle page.In two weeks, at the Black Hat Conference on Wednesday, Aug. 6, Cenzic senior security analyst Tom Stracener and security researcher Robert Hansen, better known as "RSnake," plan to demonstrate a zero-day vulnerability that affects Google Gadgets."At the core of the talk ...
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Friday, July 25th, 2008
Google added a new feature to Gmail to always use a secure (https) connection. Switch to the settings/ general tab and scroll down to “Browser connection” to see if you got it already (if not, it may still be rolled out for you). While safer, Google in their blog announcement ...
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Thursday, July 24th, 2008
Spammers have never balked at using Web forms as a way of sending out spam messages–anything to expose their wares. Basically they will look for a public Web server that allows them to provide feedback or information to a certain company. These Web forms require them to fill up certain ...
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Thursday, July 24th, 2008
Metasploit, the information security research and hack tool kit, created by HD Moore, has released exploit code targeting the DNS Cache Poisoning Flaw, recently revealed by Dan Kaminsky, of DoxPara Research.
Evidently, reported at Wired’s ThreatLevel blog, the code can not be utilized to overwrite the domain name server cache data, ...
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