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, September 2nd, 2008
Google’s shiny new Web browser is vulnerable to a carpet-bombing vulnerability that could expose Windows users to malicious hacker attacks.
Just hours after the release of Google Chrome, researcher Aviv Raff discovered that he could combine two vulnerabilities — a flaw in Apple Safari (WebKit) and a Java bug discussed at ...
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Thursday, August 7th, 2008
This week at the Black Hat Security Conference two security researchers will discuss their findings which could completely bring Windows Vista to its knees.Mark Dowd of IBM Internet Security Systems (ISS) and Alexander Sotirov, of VMware Inc. have discovered a technique that can be used to bypass all memory protection ...
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Monday, August 4th, 2008
At the Black Hat computer security conference in Las Vegas next week, researchers will demonstrate software they've developed that could steal online credentials from users of popular Web sites such as Facebook, eBay, and Google.The attack relies on a new type of hybrid file that looks like different things to ...
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
An Argentinian security researcher has published a security exploit toolkit targeting the update mechanisms of Java, Mac OS X, OpenOffice.org and other software, and relying on man-in-the-middle techniques such as those made possible by the recently disclosed DNS security hole.
The toolkit, ISR-Evilgrade 1.0, was released by Francisco Amato, a researcher ...
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