Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 About one percent of the Internet web pages are being changed in transit, sometimes in a harmful way, according to researchers at the University of Washington.In a paper, set to be delivered Wednesday, the researchers document some troubling practices. In July and August they tested data sent to about 50,000 ...
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Monday, April 14th, 2008 Security researcher Billy Rios has discovered a vulnerability in Google Spreadsheets which attackers can exploit using links to crafted tables to steal a user's cookie. According to Rios, the victim has to follow such a link in Internet Explorer. The stolen cookie can be used to access all Google services ...
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Monday, April 14th, 2008 ActiveX controls made up most of all browser plug-in vulnerabilities in the second half of 2007, according to Symantec.The company has just released its semi-annual web security report and in it said that Microsoft's technology, primarily used to create add-ins for Internet Explorer, accounted for 79 percent of the 239 ...
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008 The CLSID for an ActiveX control is a GUID for that control. You can prevent an ActiveX control from running in Internet Explorer by setting the kill bit so that the control is never called by Internet Explorer when default settings are used.The kill bit is a specific value for ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 At the RSA Security Conference I caught up with Austin Wilson, Microsoft 's Director of Windows Product Management and learned a few tidbits about security enhancements coming in Internet Explorer 8. IE8 will address three specific areas where security can be a problem: social engineering, traditional browser vulnerabilities, and attacks ...
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