Saturday, July 31st, 2010 This feature has been around for a while but I wanted to make sure everybody knows that if you are an OpenDNS customer you have a nice option in your Control Panel to help protect against DNS Rebinding attacks. This feature is turned off by default but you can enable ...
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Saturday, July 31st, 2010 The good news about SSL-based websites: Most are running strong encryption. The bad news: More than 60 percent aren't properly configured.Researcher Ivan Ristic, who is director of engineering, Web application firewall, and SSL at Qualys, revealed findings here yesterday from a study he conducted of some 120 million registered domain ...
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Monday, July 26th, 2010 Google Chrome 5.0.375.125 has been released to the Stable channel on Linux, Mac, Windows, and Chrome Frame.Download:http://www.google.com/chrome?hl=en
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Monday, July 26th, 2010 The Windows Shortcut Exploit is a zero-day vulnerability in all versions of Windows that allows a Windows shortcut link to run a malicious DLL file. Sophos now has a free, easy-to-use tool blocks this exploit from running on your computer.Please note: Existing Sophos Endpoint customers are already protected from the ...
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Monday, July 26th, 2010 Security experts at AirTight Networks have discovered a hole in the WPA2 Wi-Fi security protocol. The security hole was named as Hole 196 after the number of the relevant page in the IEEE 802.11 (2007) standard document:. Right at the bottom of this page, the IEEE introduces the keys used ...
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