Saturday, April 12th, 2008
If you're running Windows Vista, you're familiar with User Access Control (UAC). It's the security subsystem that pops up those irritating dialog boxes asking whether you really want to install software, or modify system files, or write to the Registry.
UAC may be Vista's most-hated feature, but as it turns out, ...
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
Malicious hackers beware: Computer security expert Joel Eriksson might already own your box.
Eriksson, a researcher at the Swedish security firm Bitsec, uses reverse-engineering tools to find remotely exploitable security holes in hacking software. In particular, he targets the client-side applications intruders use to control Trojan horses from afar, finding vulnerabilities ...
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
Anti Keylogger Shield is a powerful, easy to use anti-spy software tool that prohibits operation of any keylogger, either know or unknown, professional or custom made. Once installed, Anti Keylogger Shield will run silently in your System Tray, block the system mechanisms that are exploited by keyloggers, and protect your ...
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Monday, April 7th, 2008
Hackers are using a new multiple-attack package composed of seven ActiveX exploits, many of them never seen in the wild before, said a security company on Friday.
Fewer than half of the flawed ActiveX controls have been patched.
The attack framework probes Windows PCs for vulnerable ActiveX controls from software vendors Microsoft, ...
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Monday, April 7th, 2008
Recycling an old social engineering technique and using two different attack methods, a new spam run emerges as a threat to Web users before Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday. And not because it exploits soon-to-be named vulnerabilities.
What this spamming operation takes advantage of is the anticipation itself for the release of patches ...
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