Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
PandaLabs, a computer security firm, is reporting that cyber-crooks are setting traps on popular news-sharing website Digg.
Criminals pose as legitimate Digg members and then entice readers with bogus links to scintillating online video in comments posted in forums related to celebrity news, according to the Spain-based firm.
Digg is a website ...
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Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
This is it! After many months of effort from the Remote Exploit Dev team, BackTrack 4 Beta is ready and available. I thought I'd post up some "getting started" notes, to help people out with the first surge of questions.
Default password to BackTrack 4 hasn't changed, still root / toor.
KDE ...
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Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
A feature in Internet Explorer, which checked the type of file before presenting it to the user, has been found to allow execution of JavaScript embedded in an image. The MIME sniffing functionality was originally meant to compensate for web servers sending out the wrong content type information when they ...
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Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
Verizon Business has announced a global expansion of its WAN-based service to detect and defend against denial-of-service attacks.
DoS attacks have been around for years but are on the rise with backing from organised groups, including intelligence agencies inside smaller nations that use the attacks as a form of cyber-terrorism against ...
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Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
Google has discovered a vulnerability in its Chrome web browser that can allow an attacker to execute his own commands on a vulnerable Windows system. The vulnerability requires that the victim has previously installed Chrome, but is visiting a rigged web page using another browser, such as Internet Explorer.
According to ...
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