Almost all Windows users vulnerable to Flash zero-day attacks

Monday, July 27th, 2009

More than 9 out of every 10 Windows users are vulnerable to the Flash zero-day vulnerability that Adobe won't patch until Thursday, a Danish security company said today. According to Secunia, 92% of the 900,000 users who have recently run the company's Personal Software Inspector (PSI) utility have Flash Player 10 ...

VirtualBox 3.0.0 Released

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the ...

Firefox 3.0.11 Released

Thursday, June 11th, 2009

Firefox 3.0.11 fixes several security issues found in Firefox 3.0.10: JavaScript chrome privilege escalation XUL scripts bypass content-policy checks Incorrect principal set for file: resources loaded via location bar Arbitrary code execution using event listeners attached to an element whose owner document is null Race condition while accessing the private data of a NPObject JS wrapper ...

Phrack Issue #66 – What You Were Waiting For

Thursday, June 11th, 2009

We have the great pleasure to release today another excellent selection of the best Hacking articles this year. An issue full of new exploitation techniques and ground work on writing attack software. This issue has some evil number.. with a lot of evil content. Phrack proves once more how we can, ...

Beware of Repackaged HijackThis Downloads

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009

HijackThis is one of the well-known free utilities of Trend Micro that quickly scans a user’s Windows computer to find settings that may have been changed by spyware, malware, or other unwanted programs. By itself, it does not determine what is good or bad but it lists registry keys and ...