Tuesday, April 12th, 2011 A new Trojan tries to extort money from users by convincing them to dial international telephone numbers to reactive Windows, a security researcher said today.Once on a PC, the malware displays a message claiming that Windows is "locked" and must be reactivated, said Mikko Hypponen, the chief research officer of ...
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Saturday, January 29th, 2011 Microsoft is investigating new public reports of a vulnerability in all supported editions of Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow an attacker to cause a victim to run malicious scripts when visiting various Web sites, resulting in information disclosure. This impact is similar to server-side cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities. Microsoft ...
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Tuesday, January 4th, 2011 Browser security specialist Michal Zalewski believes that Chinese hackers have long been aware of a security vulnerability in Internet Explorer which has only recently come to public attention. It is believed that this vulnerability could be exploited to infect computers, though current efforts have succeeded only in provoking crashes. The ...
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Tuesday, December 21st, 2010 In order to outline the dangers of implicitly trusting shortened URLs, a student has launched a service which generates links that take users to their destination, but also hijack their browsers for DDoS. Called d0z.me, the service is the creation of Ben Schmidt (@supernothing307), a computer science major at University ...
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Saturday, December 4th, 2010 The Chrome team is happy to announce our latest Stable release, 8.0.552.215. In addition to the over 800 bug fixes and stability improvements, Chrome 8 now contains a built in PDF viewer that is secured in Chrome’s sandbox.Get it here:
http://www.google.com/chrome
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