Thursday, October 16th, 2008 Adobe Systems has released a new version of its Flash Player software, fixing a critical security bug that could make the Internet a dangerous place for Web surfers.The new Flash Player 10 software, released Wednesday, fixes security flaws in Adobe's multimedia software including bugs that could allow hackers to pull ...
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Wednesday, October 8th, 2008 A popular free security tool for the Firefox browser has been upgraded to block one of the most dangerous and troubling security problems facing the Web today.NoScript is a small application that integrates into Firefox. It blocks scripts in programming languages such as JavaScript and Java from executing on untrusted ...
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Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 Underscoring the severity of a new class of vulnerability known as clickjacking, a blogger has created a proof-of-concept game that uses a PC's video cam and microphone to secretly spy on the player.The demo, which is available here, appears to be a simple game that tests how quickly a user ...
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Friday, August 22nd, 2008 Websense, the security services provider, has reported a successful case of cache poisoning on name servers of one of the largest Chinese ISPs. Netcom customers are said to have been steered by criminals to manipulated pages on which exploits for RealPlayer, MS Snapshot Viewer, Adobe Flash Player and Microsoft Data ...
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Wednesday, August 6th, 2008 More than a thousand hacked Web sites are serving up fake Flash Player software to users duped into clicking on links in mail that's part of a massive spam attack masquerading as CNN.com news notifications, security researchers said today.The bogus messages, which claim to be from the CNN.com news Web ...
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