Thursday, April 10th, 2008
The CLSID for an ActiveX control is a GUID for that control. You can prevent an ActiveX control from running in Internet Explorer by setting the kill bit so that the control is never called by Internet Explorer when default settings are used.
The kill bit is a specific value for ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
Online malware attacks are becoming more pervasive, targeted, and refined as the underground threat economy continues to evolve and take on the characteristics of an organized industry.
The latest iteration of Symantec's Internet Security Threat Report -- covering its research over the final six months of calendar 2007 and released on ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
At the RSA Security Conference I caught up with Austin Wilson, Microsoft 's Director of Windows Product Management and learned a few tidbits about security enhancements coming in Internet Explorer 8. IE8 will address three specific areas where security can be a problem: social engineering, traditional browser vulnerabilities, and attacks ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
Storm is a shadow of its former self, Kraken is just another name for Bobax and the biggest botnet goes by the mouthful of "Srizbi," a noted botnet researcher said today as he released the results of his census of the various armies of hacked computers that spew spam.
Joe Stewart, ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
Many schools, companies and organizations these days use Internet filtering software to block certain websites from access. However, for every one of these blocking tools, there is a work around for savvy users that want to see the content. It's not that difficult to bypass MySpace filters and other similar ...
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