Wednesday, December 11th, 2013
Mozilla released Firefox 26 which includes five critical, three high, three moderate, and three low security updates.
All Java plug-ins are defaulted to 'click to play', which is a welcome security addition.
Benjamin Smedberg, Engineering Manager, Stability and Plugins at Mozilla commented: "When Mozilla conducted a user research study on the prototype ...
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Friday, December 6th, 2013
A very useful site was just created to check if any of your online accounts have been compromised (yet):
http://www.haveibeenpwned.com/
It’s trustworthy…I know the guy who runs it and it will be updated with all the major data breaches going forward.
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Friday, November 29th, 2013
Kaspersky Lab has recorded several thousand attempts to infect computers used for online banking with a malicious programme that its creators claim can attack “any bank in any country”.
The Neverquest Trojan banker supports just about every possible trick used to bypass online banking security systems: web injection, remote system access, ...
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Friday, November 29th, 2013
We recently came across some malware of the SOGOMOT and MIRYAGO families that update themselves in an unusual way: they download JPEG files that contain encrypted configuration files/binaries. Not only that, we believe that this activity has been ongoing since at least the middle of 2010. A notable detail of the malware ...
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Thursday, November 28th, 2013
Trend Micro came across samples of an exploit targeting the recently announced zero-day vulnerability affecting Windows XP and Server 2003. This is an elevation of privilege vulnerability, which may allow a threat actor to gain certain privileges that enable him to do varied activities, including deleting or viewing data, installing programs, or ...
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