Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
The world of computer security can be a scary place for friends and foes alike. This weekend users' found their AVG software updated with a new virus definition file. Then they quickly found their computers crashing.
What was discovered was that the new virus definition file mistook user32.dll, a ...
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Monday, November 10th, 2008
Attackers have been using the recently announced vulnerability in Adobe Reader 8 to attack Windows users, warn security experts from ISC (Internet Storm Center). The attackers are exploiting the util.printf JavaScript function to trigger a buffer overload. A PDF containing the malicious code was recognised by over 30 virus scanners ...
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Monday, November 10th, 2008
Windows Vista operating system is far better protected from attack code than Windows XP is. However, in a report issued last week, the company said that its own ActiveX plug-in technology is a significant threat to Vista.
The latest of the company's twice-yearly security intelligence reports said that half of the ...
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Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
Today, a major feature was added to the pre-release versions of Firefox 3.1, called Private Browsing. I've been working for quite some time on this, so I thought it may be a good time to write about what this feature is and how to use it.
As you may know, while ...
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Monday, November 3rd, 2008
A worm that exploits the bug Microsoft Corp. patched in an emergency update 11 days ago is actively attacking systems, several security companies and researchers said today.The worm, which Symantec Corp. called Wecorl but was dubbed MS08-067.g by Kaspersky Lab and Microsoft itself, likely originated in China, said Kevin Haley, ...
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