Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Updated your Web browser lately? Ever? If not, you and 637 million other Net surfers with outdated, insecure browsers are inviting criminal hackers into your computer, researchers warn.Using Internet Explorer? You're likely to be one of the biggest offenders.The researchers wanted to know why so many recent attacks have been ...
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Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
The Mozilla team has fixed a total of twelve security problems in its new version 2.0.0.15 of Firefox. Five are classed as critical, i.e. could allow the injection of external code. The development team has not yet revealed the details behind each patch – the links to the specific bug ...
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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
Blizzard's announcement of two-factor authentication for World of Warcraft is more significant than people realize.
Passwords are obsolete. They are broken. We all recognize this, yet we aren't quite ready to give up on passwords because we haven't an easy alternative.
World of Warcraft (WoW) is a good test case. It is ...
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