Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Spammers have begun using come-ons such as stock-pushing images as e-mail stationery backgrounds to evade antispam technology and shovel their unwanted messages into your inbox.
One antispam vendor has spotted the technique in its early stages, but expects we'll see more of it. In a sample e-mail, the subject read 'GED' ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Popular Firefox browser plug-ins are not doing enough to secure their software, a security researcher has said.
Many widely used Firefox extensions, including toolbars from Google, Yahoo and AOL do not use secure connections to update themselves, according to Christopher Soghoian, a security researcher who blogged about the issue.
Soghoian is best ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
If you haven't changed the default password on your home router, do so now.
That's what researchers at Symantec and Indiana University are saying, after publishing the results of tests that show how attackers could take over your home router using malicious JavaScript code.
For the attack to work, the bad guys ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
The https://www.paypal.com/eBay/securitykey is actually a small electronic device, designed to clip on to a keychain, that calculates a new numeric password every 30 seconds. PayPal users who sign up to use the device will need to enter their regular passwords as well as the number displayed on the key whenever ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Internet Explorer is also susceptible to the attack but is less likely to be tricked because it does a more thorough job in checking to see where a log-in form is coming from before it automatically submits password and user information.A flaw in Firefox allows you to steal user information ...
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