Saturday, January 16th, 2016
Sean Cassidy discovered recently that the popular password manager LastPass is vulnerable to a phishing attack that takes advantage of the way messages are displayed to users of the service.
The method that he describes on his blog works in Google Chrome, and to a degree in Firefox as well.
The main ...
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Tuesday, January 12th, 2016
A password management tool installed by default alongside Trend Micro AntiVirus was found vulnerable to remote code execution thanks to the work of Google's Project Zero security team.
Discovered by Project Zero's Tavis Ormandy, the password tool was built using JavaScript and node.js, and started a local web server that would ...
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Friday, January 1st, 2016
Security company AVG, well known for its free and commercial security products that offer a wide range of security related safeguards and services, has put millions of Chrome users at risk recently by breaking Chrome security in a fundamental way in one of its extensions for the web browser.
AVG, like ...
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Wednesday, December 16th, 2015
The comeback was 16 years in the making, but macro malware is once again on security professional's radar in a big way impacting at least 100,000 people since it began its resurgence earlier this year, according to Intel Security.
The malware, which uses the macros found in Windows Office products like Word ...
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Wednesday, December 16th, 2015
Hitting a key over and over again actually works for once. Two security researchers in Spain recently uncovered a strange bug that will let you into most Linux machines just by hitting the backspace key 28 times. Here’s how to fix it and keep your data protected.
The researchers, Hector Marco ...
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