Sunday, May 5th, 2013
Internet Explorer 8 is still the most-used version of Microsoft's web browser family, according to data from Net Applications. Late Friday, Microsoft posted word that it had discovered an exploit in the browser but noted the issue issue does not appear to affect any other versions.
Microsoft's Security blog states the exploit could ...
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Sunday, December 9th, 2012
Ever wondered how secure the password to your Windows workstation is? Well, as it turns out, it's pretty insecure when put up against a 25-GPU server cluster running a combination of Linux and freely available password-cracking software suites. Said server, powered by 25 AMD Radeon graphics cards, manages to brute ...
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2012
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Tuesday, June 19th, 2012
An unpatched critical security vulnerability in Microsoft's software, which means that users' computers can become infected simply by visiting a website with Internet Explorer, is being actively exploited by cybercriminals. Alongside last week's regular Patch Tuesday announcement (including a remote code execution vulnerability that is being exploited by attackers ...
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Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012
The Nmap Project is pleased to announce the immediate, free availability of the Nmap Security Scanner version 6.00 from http://nmap.org/. It is the product of almost three years of work, 3,924 code commits, and more than a dozen point releases since the big Nmap 5 release in July 2009. Nmap ...
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