Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
Cybercriminals increasingly are employing no-tech or low-tech techniques for making big money online -- no exploits or sophisticated hacker tools required.The techniques themselves aren’t new -- some have been around for nearly a decade. But the Web model has made these schemes that capitalize on so-called business logic flaws more ...
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
AVG Technologies' virus scanner contains a DoS vulnerability that allows attackers to crash the scanner. The crash is caused by division by zero when processing UPX-packed files. The vendor has released update 8.0.156, which fixes the problem.Also in this version, the Search-Shield components do not scan web sites for malicious ...
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
Online bankers, beware. More than 75 percent of bank Web sites surveyed by a research team had at least one design flaw that could make customers vulnerable to cyber thieves.University of Michigan computer scientist Atul Prakash and his graduate students Laura Falk and Kevin Borders examined the Web sites of ...
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Friday, July 25th, 2008
The Web became a substantially more dangerous place this week, thanks largely to the publication of instructions that show cyber criminals how to exploit a pervasive, critical flaw in the Internet infrastructure.While Internet service providers and corporations can mitigate the danger by updating the software that powers vulnerable components of ...
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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
One day after a security company accidentally posted details of a serious flaw in the Internet's Domain Name System (DNS), hackers are saying that software that exploits this flaw is sure to pop up soon.Several hackers are almost certainly already developing attack code for the bug, and it will most ...
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