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That Windows 7 bootleg is a ticking time bomb
Submitted Tuesday, December 23, 2008 @ 02:25 AM
Microsoft company information - ( Microsoft News )
blogs.zdnet.com -- Bootleggers, beware.
Judging by my inbox, lots of you downloaded a bootleg copy of Windows 7 build 6956 from BitTorrent, and now you have it running. But no matter how hard you try, you can’t update its built-in copy of Internet Explorer 8 with this week’s extremely critical out-of-band security update, which Microsoft turned around in record time. See the complete story here.
Oops! Mozilla forgets Firefox 2 patch, must re-issue update
Submitted Thursday, December 18, 2008 @ 10:34 PM
Firefox company information - ( Firefox News )
infoworld.com -- A "clerical error" by Mozilla omitted one of the security patches that was supposed to be included in the Windows version of Tuesday's Firefox 2.0.0.19 release, a company executive said Wednesday. See the complete story here.
Mozilla hastily shoves Firefox updates out door
Submitted Wednesday, December 17, 2008 @ 10:01 AM
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channelregister.co.uk -- Mozilla has rushed out updates to plug a few critical holes in versions 2 and 3 of its popular open source Firefox browser.
Firefox 3.0.5 fixes three critical security flaws in the browser, while 2.0.0.19 stitches four critical vulns. See the complete story here.
Microsoft preps emergency IE patch for Wednesday release
Submitted Wednesday, December 17, 2008 @ 01:11 AM
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computerworld.com -- Microsoft Corp. announced today that it will issue an emergency patch tomorrow to quash a critical Internet Explorer bug that attackers have been exploiting for more than a week. See the complete story here.
New trojan in mass DNS hijack
Submitted Monday, December 08, 2008 @ 02:36 PM
theregister.co.uk -- Researchers have identified a new trojan that can tamper with a wide array of devices on a local network, an exploit that sends them to impostor websites even if they are hardened machines that are fully patched or run non-Windows operating systems. See the complete story here.
Pentagon Hit by Unprecedented Cyber Attack
Submitted Friday, December 05, 2008 @ 09:35 PM
foxnews.com -- The Pentagon has suffered from a cyber attack so alarming that it has taken the unprecedented step of banning the use of external hardware devices, such as flash drives and DVD's, FOX News has learned. See the complete story here.
New Windows worm builds massive botnet
Submitted Friday, December 05, 2008 @ 09:03 PM
Microsoft company information - ( Microsoft News )
computerworld.com -- The worm exploiting a critical Windows bug that Microsoft Corp. patched with an emergency fix in late October is being used to build a new botnet, a security researcher said today. See the complete story here.
Apple deletes Mac antivirus suggestion
Submitted Friday, December 05, 2008 @ 09:01 PM
Apple company information - ( Apple News )
news.cnet.com -- Apple removed an old item from its support site late Tuesday that urged Mac customers to use multiple antivirus utilities and now says the Mac is safe "out of the box.". See the complete story here.
Virtually every Windows PC at risk, says Secunia
Submitted Friday, December 05, 2008 @ 08:52 PM
infoworld.com -- More than 98 percent of Windows computers harbor at least one unpatched application, and nearly half contain 11 or more programs at risk from attack, a Danish security company said Wednesday. See the complete story here.
Microsoft to fix eight bugs in year's final Patch Tuesday
Submitted Friday, December 05, 2008 @ 08:47 PM
Microsoft company information - ( Microsoft News )
infoworld.com -- Microsoft will deliver eight security updates next week, six of them marked "critical," to plug holes in Windows, Internet Explorer, Office, and other products.
Two of the eight updates will patch Windows, another two are aimed at Office, while the remaining four target Internet Explorer (IE), SharePoint, Windows Media Player, Visual Basic, and Visual Studio, Microsoft said Thursday in its monthly advance warning of what to expect next Tuesday. See the complete story here.
Koobface virus hits Facebook
Submitted Friday, December 05, 2008 @ 08:46 PM
news.cnet.com -- A worm responsible for sending Facebook users malicious code appears to be limited in nature, although the social engineering attack may be used again, say experts. See the complete story here.
Google Offers Text Ads Linked to Malware Site
Submitted Wednesday, November 19, 2008 @ 10:01 AM
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dailytech.com -- Sale of ads to known malware site an embarrassing slip for internet giant Google
Search giant Google is known for its "do no evil" approach. It goes to great lengths to protect the environment and it blocks sites on lists of known malware sites from being searched.
However, security researchers made an alarming discovery of a major slip-up for Google. The site had allowed a known malware site to buy text ads and was placing these ads on its partner pages through its Google AdWords service. The link was listed as “Antivirus XP 2008,” which led to the URL “antivirus-world-2009.com.” (Don't go there). See the complete story here.
Computer virus attacks 'to peak next Monday'
Submitted Wednesday, November 19, 2008 @ 09:57 AM
guardian.co.uk -- Internet users are being warned to stay vigilant by researchers who believe that next Monday could be the worst day the year for computer attacks.
After analysing information on viruses and internet worms taken from more than 500,000 machines around the world, security experts at PC Tools have pinpointed November 24 as the potential peak of malicious software activity for 2008. See the complete story here.
AVG slaps Trojan label on Adobe Flash
Submitted Wednesday, November 19, 2008 @ 09:56 AM
Adobe company information - ( Adobe News )
theregister.co.uk -- AVG, the popular anti-virus package, has falsely identified Adobe Flash as potentially malicious. The snafu comes just days after AVG slapped a bogus Trojan warning on a core Windows component. See the complete story here.
Computer virus affects hospitals
Submitted Wednesday, November 19, 2008 @ 09:51 AM
news.bbc.co.uk -- Three London hospitals have been forced to shut down their entire computer systems for at least 24 hours after being hit by a virus. See the complete story here.
Microsoft to offer free security
Submitted Wednesday, November 19, 2008 @ 09:48 AM
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news.bbc.co.uk -- In a surprise move, Microsoft has announced it will offer a free anti-virus and security solution from the second half of next year.
It will stop selling OneCare, its all-in-one security and PC management service, from the end of June 2009. See the complete story here.
Survey: One DNS server in 10 is 'trivially vulnerable'
Submitted Thursday, November 13, 2008 @ 01:07 PM
computerworld.com -- More than 10% of the Internet's DNS servers are still vulnerable to cache-poisoning attacks, according to a worldwide survey of public-facing Internet nameservers. See the complete story here.
Firefox updates include a dozen security fixes
Submitted Thursday, November 13, 2008 @ 12:58 PM
Firefox company information - ( Firefox News )
news.cnet.com -- On Wednesday, Mozilla released Firefox 3.0.4 and Firefox 2.0.18 to address a dozen security flaws, half of which the browser maker ranks as critical. Among the critical is one that could allow an attacker privilege escalation after a session restore. Another could allow arbitrary code to execute with compromised Flash media files. See the complete story here.
Spam plummets as gang leaves net
Submitted Thursday, November 13, 2008 @ 12:48 PM
news.bbc.co.uk -- The closure of a web hosting firm that is believed to have had spam gangs as clients has led to a drastic reduction in junk mail. See the complete story here.
Google Releases Third Beta of Chrome: Better Security and Per...
Submitted Wednesday, November 05, 2008 @ 09:30 PM
Google company information - ( Google News )
readwriteweb.com -- Google just released a new beta version of Chrome, Google's first web browser, which addresses a number of issues we had noticed in earlier releases. Besides improving the performance and stability of a number of plugins, including Flash, Sliverlight, and Quicktime, as well as fixing some security issues, Google also finally added the ability to add words to the built-in spell checker. See the complete story here.
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