Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Writers of a password-stealing Trojan horse program have found that a little patience can lead to a lot of infections.They have managed to infect hundreds of thousands of computers, including more than 14,000 within one unnamed global hotel chain, by waiting for system administrators to log onto infected PCs and ...
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
We all worry about keeping our online passwords safe from prying eyes. But now our faith in ATM PIN codes is being shaken.
Three people face charges in federal court in New York for allegedly breaking into Citibank's ATM network inside 7-Eleven stores and stealing PIN codes, according to court filings ...
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
I got forwarded this link today from businesswire about how Google and Yahoo are now going to be armed with the information necessary to look at and extract information out of SWF files. Ho-boy, here we go. The link was sent to me with the “bad juju” caveat, and I’m ...
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
The new version of Kaspersky's security suite, Internet Security 2009, features a novel but simple defense against keylogging malware -- a virtual keyboard.
Full details have yet to be confirmed, but it is understood that the program will let users bring up the keyboard from which to enter login details for ...
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Yesterday I wrote a quick proposal for the Synapse project. Since not everyone has access to the Synapse project, I will share some ideas here from time to time. I started with a proposal on how to detect Xpath vulnerabilities. Since Xpath can be used in combination with every server-side ...
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