Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
For a while now I’ve been using different web browsers to compartmentalize my risk. Most of my primary browsing is in one browser, but I use another for potentially risky activities I want to isolate more. Running different browsers for different sessions isolates certain types of attacks. For example, unless ...
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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Trend Micro Monday announced a line of desktop and server security products intended for small to midsize businesses.
Worry-Free Business Security 5.0 represents a re-branding of Trend's SMB client/server messaging security product line plus upgrades that integrate features such as behavior-based antimalware monitoring and an option for in-the-cloud Web security services ...
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Monday, June 2nd, 2008
If you own or work at a small to mid-sized business, and are presented with an error message about data synchronization or site maintenance when trying to access your company's bank account online, you might want to give the bank a call: A criminal group that specializes in deploying malicious ...
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Sunday, June 1st, 2008
XSS (Cross-Site Scripting) Very Much Alive and Kicking
We were about to investigate further on malicious activities related to banner82(dot)com/b.js but the URL was already inaccessible around Tuesday. Soon enough the malicious script in www(dot)adw95(dot)com caught our interest. A rough survey of the sites compromised by this script reveal that the ...
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
Microsoft on Friday said it is investigating reports of "a blended threat that allows remote code execution on all supported versions of Windows XP and Windows Vista when Apple's Safari Web browser has been installed."An attacker could exploit the vulnerability by tricking a user into visiting a maliciously crafted Web ...
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