Friday, August 22nd, 2008
Websense, the security services provider, has reported a successful case of cache poisoning on name servers of one of the largest Chinese ISPs. Netcom customers are said to have been steered by criminals to manipulated pages on which exploits for RealPlayer, MS Snapshot Viewer, Adobe Flash Player and Microsoft Data ...
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
One of the most interesting feature that didn’t quite make it into the final release of Firefox 3 is “Private Browsing”, a.k.a. porn mode. The only other browser with this feature built-in today is Safari (another reason to try it in case you haven’t), however, Microsoft may also be building ...
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Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
As you all probably known since version 3 Nessus turned to a proprietary model and started charging for the latest plugins locking most of us out. Now we finally have a new, properly organised forked development with the name of OpenVAS - at last a decent and free Vulnerability Scanner!OpenVAS ...
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Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
Computer security firms are warning about an attack that hijacks the clipboard where copied text is stored.The attack puts a hard-to-delete weblink into the clipboard that, if followed, leads people to a website selling fake security software.The code that inserts the link has been found in flash-based adverts seen on ...
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Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
IT security and control firm Sophos is reminding computer users to exercise diligence when checking their email in the wake of a new widespread wave of dangerous spam messages that claim to be breaking news alerts from MSNBC. Samples intercepted at SophosLabs, Sophos's global network of virus, spyware and spam ...
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