Friday, October 10th, 2008
Microsoft Corp. yesterday acknowledged that exploit code is circulating for a vulnerability it acknowledged six months ago, but has yet to patch.
It's not clear whether Microsoft intends to fix the flaw next week.
On Thursday, Microsoft revised a security advisory it first posted April 19 about a bug in Windows XP, ...
Posted in Internet, Security, Windows | No Comments
Monday, July 14th, 2008
Security researcher and author Kris Kaspersky plans to demonstrate how an attacker can target flaws in Intel's microprocessors to remotely attack a computer using JavaScript or TCP/IP packets, regardless of what operating system the computer is running.
Kaspersky will demonstrate how such an attack can be made in a presentation at ...
Posted in Hardware, Security | No Comments
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
Cybercriminals are exploiting a bug in software used by Microsoft's Access database program in a new online attack, Microsoft warned Monday.The flaw lies in the Snapshot Viewer ActiveX control, which ships with "all supported versions of Microsoft Office Access except Microsoft Access 2007," Microsoft said in a security advisory, published ...
Posted in Security, Software, Windows | No Comments
Sunday, June 8th, 2008
OK gang, this is one of those rare moments where feedback from community will directly influence a security feature that’ll make a real difference. First some background...
About 6 months ago Brandon Sterne left a cushy infosec position at eBay for Mozilla to solve an extremely important Web security problem he ...
Posted in Coding, Internet, Privacy, Security | No Comments
Saturday, June 7th, 2008
The emergence of a variant on a virus that encrypts the victim's data with a strong 1,024-bit algorithm so the victim can't unscramble it without paying a ransom has begun to spread, potentially posing a major threat, according to the antimalware firm which discovered it.
Kaspersky Lab says the new variant ...
Posted in Internet, Privacy, Security, Software | No Comments
