Thursday, March 5th, 2009
It's malware that actually removes other malware from its victims' PCs. And so far, nobody is exactly sure how it's being distributed.
Security experts this week are buzzing about a new Trojan called Tigger.A, also known as Syzor. The data-stealing malware has quietly claimed about 250,000 victims since it was first ...
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Wednesday, March 4th, 2009
Firefox 3.0.7 has been released today and this version fixes several issues found in Firefox 3.0.6.
Fixed several security issues:
-URL spoofing with invisible control characters
-Upgrade PNG library to fix memory safety hazards
-XML data theft via RDFXMLDataSource and cross-domain redirect
-Mozilla Firefox XUL Linked Clones Double Free Vulnerability
-Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.9.0.7)
Fixed ...
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Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009
Opera 9.64 is a recommended security and stability upgrade, incorporating the Opera Presto 2.1.1 user agent engine. Opera highly recommends all users to upgrade to Opera 9.64 to take advantage of these improvements.
Changes and improvements since Opera 9.63:
Security
Fixed an issue where specially crafted JPEG images ccould be used to execute ...
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Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009
Researchers at Trend Micro are reporting that a new variant of the Koobface worm is spreading on Facebook.
Koobface first appeared in 2008, with separate variants striking members of Facebook and MySpace.com. Now the Koobface worm is back again, with an eye toward stealing cookies for other social networking sites.
According to ...
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Sunday, March 1st, 2009
JPEG & PNG Stripper is a Windows only tool for stripping/cleaning/removing unnecessary metadata (junk) from JPG/JPEG/JFIF & PNG files. The image quality IS NOT AFFECTED. Includes command line support as well.
Before:
Just drag the files that you want to strip onto the application:
After:
Download:
http://www.steelbytes.com/?mid=30&cmd=download&pid=15
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