Wednesday, September 16th, 2009
With many who bank online now wary of phishing attacks, criminals are adding fake live-chat support windows to their Web sites to make them seem more real.
RSA Security spotted the first ever of these "chat-in-the-middle" attacks in the past few hours, according to Sean Brady, a manager with the security ...
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Thursday, September 10th, 2009
VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware. Targeted at server, desktop and embedded use, it is now the only professional-quality virtualization solution that is also Open Source Software.
Sun today released VirtualBox 3.0.6, a maintenance release of VirtualBox 3.0 which improves stability and performance. See the ChangeLog for ...
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Thursday, September 10th, 2009
Chances are that in the past week you've received an e-mail in your inbox that pretends to be from your bank, e-commerce vendor, or other on-line site. Hopefully you've realized that many times this e-mail is fake - a phishing or spam e-mail. The sender (phisher) of these fake e-mails ...
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Thursday, September 10th, 2009
It's no secret that criminals are stealing credit card and bank account data and selling it underground. But most people would find it shocking to learn just how little their sensitive personal information costs.
Symantec on Thursday is launching its Norton Online Risk Calculator, a tool that people can use to ...
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Wednesday, September 9th, 2009
Firefox 3.5.3 fixes the following security issues:
Chrome privilege escalation with FeedWriter
Location bar spoofing via tall line-height Unicode characters
TreeColumns dangling pointer vulnerability
Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.9.1.3/1.9.0.14)
Help > Check for Updates or download here:
http://www.mozilla.com/firefox
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