Monday, December 22nd, 2008
A bug in Trend Micro's free online virus scanning service can be used by hackers to hijack Windows PCs running Internet Explorer, security researchers warned.
Attackers able to dupe users into visiting a malicious Web page could exploit a vulnerability in the custom ActiveX control that Trend Micro distributes to users ...
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Saturday, December 20th, 2008
Microsoft Corp. rushed out an emergency patch Wednesday to fix a major security flaw in its Internet Explorer Web browser that has allowed hackers to infect millions of computers with viruses and steal personal information.
So far, the vulnerability has not led to the widespread infections common a few years ago. ...
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Saturday, December 13th, 2008
The unpatched bug in Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) that hackers are now exploiting also exists in older versions of the browser, including the still-widely-used IE6, Microsoft Corp. said.
Friday, a Danish security researcher added that Microsoft's original countermeasure advice was insufficient, and recommended users take one of the new steps the ...
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Saturday, December 6th, 2008
Researchers have identified a new trojan that can tamper with a wide array of devices on a local network, an exploit that sends them to impostor websites even if they are hardened machines that are fully patched or run non-Windows operating systems.
The malware is a new variant of the DNSChanger, ...
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Monday, December 1st, 2008
In just under two hours an unprotected computer was rendered unusable through online attacks in an experiment in Auckland today.
The experiment was designed to show what a household with a computer put itself at risk of everyday, and was carried out by NetSafe and IBM.
It was carried out to mark ...
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