Friday, April 24th, 2009
I just noticed this today but it looks as though the Disk Defragmenter in Windows Vista is scheduled to run once a week by default.
Personally, I think that with these newer and more efficient operating systems, not to mention the growing sizes of hard drives, that this is completely overkill. ...
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Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
At the Hack In The Box (HITB) Security Conference in Dubai on Thursday, security researchers demonstrated how software they developed can already take advantage of a design problem with the upcoming Windows 7 operating system, allowing them to hack into the system. VBootkit 2.0, created by researchers Vipin Kumar and ...
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Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
Firefox 3.0.9 fixes several security issues found in Firefox 3.0.8:
Firefox allows Refresh header to redirect to javascript: URIs
POST data sent to wrong site when saving web page with embedded frame
Malicious search plugins can inject code into arbitrary sites
Same-origin violations in XMLHttpRequest and XPCNativeWrapper.toString
XSS hazard using third-party stylesheets and XBL bindings
Same-origin violations ...
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Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
Thousands of Web sites have been rigged to deliver a powerful piece of malicious software that many security products may be unprepared to handle.
The malicious software is a new variant of Mebroot, a program known as a "rootkit" for the stealthy way it hides deep in the Windows operating system, ...
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Thursday, April 9th, 2009
Recently, our APAC threat intelligence team discovered a couple of Windows kernel zero-day vulnerabilities in the field, which could be potentially used for malicious purposes. These were discovered in some discussion forums in China.
One of these issues exists in Windows NT/2000/XP according to the description provided. The issue arises ...
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