Wednesday, December 11th, 2013
Mozilla released Firefox 26 which includes five critical, three high, three moderate, and three low security updates.
All Java plug-ins are defaulted to 'click to play', which is a welcome security addition.
Benjamin Smedberg, Engineering Manager, Stability and Plugins at Mozilla commented: "When Mozilla conducted a user research study on the prototype ...
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Friday, December 6th, 2013
A very useful site was just created to check if any of your online accounts have been compromised (yet):
http://www.haveibeenpwned.com/
It’s trustworthy…I know the guy who runs it and it will be updated with all the major data breaches going forward.
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Tuesday, December 3rd, 2013
A few weeks ago, security researcher Dragos Ruiu publicly claimed that computers in his lab were being infected by some sort of stealthy over-the-air transmission method that relied on ordinary speakers and microphones to transmit the malware payload from system to system. Ruiu nicknamed this bug “badBIOS,” and research into ...
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Friday, November 29th, 2013
Kaspersky Lab has recorded several thousand attempts to infect computers used for online banking with a malicious programme that its creators claim can attack “any bank in any country”.
The Neverquest Trojan banker supports just about every possible trick used to bypass online banking security systems: web injection, remote system access, ...
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Tuesday, November 26th, 2013
One evening in January last year, Joel Eriksson, a 34-year-old computer analyst from Uppsala in Sweden, was trawling the web, looking for distraction, when he came across a message on an internet forum. The message was in stark white type, against a black background.
“Hello,” it said. “We are looking for ...
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