Saturday, March 8th, 2008
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Microsoft has signed up three companies to add phishing monitoring and detection technology to its antiphishing filter in the MSN Search Toolbar and the upcoming release of Internet Explorer 7, and its SmartScreen e-mail filter, the company says.
The software vendor has also released the final version of its phishing filter ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
This is one of those ideas that make you want to slap your forehead and wonder why it never occurred to you before. I don't remember what prompted it, but I decided to do a little experiment with my virtual test PC. I created a low-level user account and then ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Warning: Long ramble ahead.
A lengthy discussion has popped up on the Bugtraq mailing list. It began with an observation from a user that Microsoft Antispyware missed software from Claria and a whole raft of cookies. It is not surprising that it did not detect the Claria software, since Microsoft has ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Microsoft has revealed some of the security changes to the upcoming Internet Explorer 7 and Windows Vista--changes that could cause trouble for some Web sites.
One key change is that Explorer will disable SSLv2, an older version of the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol. SSL is used to carry out ...
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