Monday, January 5th, 2009 Do not expect that your system would start misbehaving once it is infected by a malware. Malwares can perform their functions without showing any symptoms for days, months or years. New malwares are capable of hiding themselves even from powerful Antivirus scan engines. They can also perform their jobs without affecting ...
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Sunday, January 4th, 2009 This document is meant to provide web application developers, browser engineers, and information security researchers with a one-stop reference to key security properties of contemporary web browsers. Insufficient understanding of these often poorly-documented characteristics is a major contributing factor to the prevalence of several classes of security vulnerabilities.Although all browsers ...
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Saturday, January 3rd, 2009 DaiMon has once more discovered a new critical cross-site scripting vulnerability which affects the Facebook "Reset Password" page. Malicious users can inject code to phish credentials and other sensitive personal information from millions of Facebook members.We hope that this serious flaw gets fixed quickly as is usually the case with ...
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Friday, January 2nd, 2009 This Firefox plugin was first created back during the Debian/OpenSSL scare about 6 months ago where the key pairs that were generated from an affected machine were easily guessable. Marton Anka created this plugin to help users find these bad certificates:On 12/31/2008, Marton updated this plugin to detect the ...
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Wednesday, December 31st, 2008 By now, most of us are aware of the potential privacy risks posed by Web cookies. But according to a new paper published by security consultancy iSec Partners, traditional browser-based cookies aren't the only technology used to store user data anymore. A number of browser plug-ins offer similar capabilities -- ...
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