Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
Although the two most-recent builds of Firefox 2.0, labeled 2.0.0.19 and 2.0.0.20, have omitted the defense, earlier editions of the browser were still able to query Google for a list of sites suspected of hosting identity theft scams. But Google is now shutting down the blacklist, said Mike Beltzner , ...
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Saturday, January 17th, 2009
The myth that to delete data really securely from a hard disk you have to overwrite it many times, using different patterns, has persisted for decades, despite the fact that even firms specialising in data recovery, openly admit that if a hard disk is overwritten with zeros just once, all ...
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Thursday, January 15th, 2009
TinyURL is a very handy service for shortening long URLs but it can also be used maliciously. Anytime somebody wants to hide where they are sending you they can easily generate a TinyURL and you will not know where you will end up. It could be a phishing site. It ...
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Thursday, January 15th, 2009
Many popular Windows encryption programs that hide files inside mounted volumes could be fatally compromised by a new type of attack uncovered by a German researcher.
According to a paper published by Bern Roellgen, who also works for encryption software outfit PMC Ciphers, such OTFE (on-the-fly-encryption) programs typically pass the password ...
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Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
Security vendor Symantec is using new virtual machine technology to protect Web surfers from online attack.
Called Vibes, the software bounces between three different virtual machine sessions, depending on what the user is doing on the Web. When Vibes spots the SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) protocol used for secure Web transactions, ...
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