Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
The Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) have announced some AutoRun changes for Windows 7.
Currently Conficker and other malware is taking advantage of the AutoRun functionality as a spreading mechanism. AutoRun is used to start some programs automatically when a CD or another media is inserted into a computer. The main ...
Posted in Hardware, Networking, Privacy, Security, Windows | 1 Comment
Monday, April 27th, 2009
Cain & Abel is a password recovery tool for Microsoft Operating Systems. It allows easy recovery of various kind of passwords by sniffing the network, cracking encrypted passwords using Dictionary, Brute-Force and Cryptanalysis attacks, recording VoIP conversations, decoding scrambled passwords, recovering wireless network keys, revealing password boxes, uncovering cached passwords ...
Posted in Internet, Networking, Privacy, Security, Software, Windows | No Comments
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
At the Hack In The Box (HITB) Security Conference in Dubai on Thursday, security researchers demonstrated how software they developed can already take advantage of a design problem with the upcoming Windows 7 operating system, allowing them to hack into the system. VBootkit 2.0, created by researchers Vipin Kumar and ...
Posted in Privacy, Security, Windows | No Comments
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
Firefox 3.0.9 fixes several security issues found in Firefox 3.0.8:
Firefox allows Refresh header to redirect to javascript: URIs
POST data sent to wrong site when saving web page with embedded frame
Malicious search plugins can inject code into arbitrary sites
Same-origin violations in XMLHttpRequest and XPCNativeWrapper.toString
XSS hazard using third-party stylesheets and XBL bindings
Same-origin violations ...
Posted in Internet, Linux, Privacy, Security, Software, Windows | No Comments
Saturday, April 18th, 2009
Security researchers are warning administrators to secure their servers in the wake of new Secure Shell (SSH) attacks.
Researchers at security firm SANS warned that so-called 'brute force' attacks were occurring on a "daily" basis. The attacks attempt to guess usernames and passwords in an attempt to compromise the server.
To help ...
Posted in Internet, Linux, Networking, Privacy, Security | No Comments
