Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Just one day after a security researcher showed how Google Inc.'s Firefox toolbar could be exploited in an online attack, a similar flaw has been discovered in the Google Desktop.
On Thursday, Google hacker Robert Hansen posted proof of concept details showing how attackers could use Google Desktop to launch software ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Popular Firefox browser plug-ins are not doing enough to secure their software, a security researcher has said.
Many widely used Firefox extensions, including toolbars from Google, Yahoo and AOL do not use secure connections to update themselves, according to Christopher Soghoian, a security researcher who blogged about the issue.
Soghoian is best ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
The strength of the encryption used now to protect banking and e-commerce transactions on many Web sites may not be effective in as few as five years, a cryptography expert has warned after a new distributing key-cracking achievement.
Arjen Lenstra, a cryptology professor at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Hundreds of users have clicked through to a Google AdWords advertisement offering to infect users with a virus, according to a blogger.
The experiment, run by Didier Stevens, a blogger who says he works for the consultancy group Contraste Europe, is the latest, if slightly puzzling development to reinforce the ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
I’ve had to listen to clients kvetch for hours on end about how Microsoft makes their lives miserable and how everything would be better in a Microsoft-free world. Tony Bove wrote a whole book with that theme, Just Say No to Microsoft, and plenty of blogs have taken up the ...
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