Friday, May 23rd, 2008
A researcher has spotted a security problem in Facebook that could lead to hackers taking control of user accounts.
The flaw allows a hacker to execute scripts on Facebook that could potentially be used to create a fake log-in page and capture people's passwords, according to the XSSED security blog. The ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
Google is now sharing details on why its automatic search deems certain Websites risky.
The search giant this month quietly added a new, free service called the Safe Browsing Diagnostic Page that tells whether a site flagged by Google as potentially dangerous is hosting malware, or helps distribute malware, for ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
Security service Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) has found three critical vulnerabilities that allow attackers to infect the computers of Trillian Instant Messenger users with malicious code. The vendor has responded by releasing an update to close the holes.
When processing XML through functions of the talk.dll dynamic link library, malformed ...
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
I forgot to tell you all about this actually. I found this about 8 months back and never discussed it for various reasons. Since I saw that Mozilla has fixed a lot of memory leaks inside Firefox 2/3, I guess it's safe to say I can talk about this now. ...
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
This may seem painfully obvious to some people, but I looked around and couldn’t find a reference to it, so I apologize ahead of time for anyone who already knew this. When we normally think of how attackers use proxies they are almost always just trying to hide their IP ...
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