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On Wednesday, researchers announced a flaw in how the Google Chrome browser behaves with undefined handlers. An exploit provided as a demonstration crashes the new browser. In an article on the Securiteam site , Rishi Narang from Evilfingers says a crash...
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Opera Software ASA today patched seven vulnerabilities in its flagship Opera browser, but it declined to provide information about one of the bugs. The Oslo-based browser developer hinted that other programs, not yet unpatched, were also affected by the...
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Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC), today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire PC Tools , a global provider of innovative software products designed to protect the privacy and security of Windows® computer users. The financial terms...
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Security researcher David Maynor hopes that his credit-card data has been stolen for the last time. Tired of insecure sites losing his data, the chief technology officer at Errata Security, said the company plans to release a toolbar for major browsers...
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Open-source software maker Mozilla announced this week that the company will require developers to undergo training in secure programming and allow the security community to review its assessments of threats to the Firefox browser. The two initiatives...
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Apple has released Security Update 2008-005 to address multiple vulnerabilities that affect a number of applications. These vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to conduct DNS cache poisoning attacks, execute arbitrary code, cause a denial-of-service...
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Known Vulnerabilities Fixed in Firefox 2.0.0.15: MFSA 2008-33 Crash and remote code execution in block reflow MFSA 2008-32 Remote site run as local file via Windows URL shortcut MFSA 2008-31 Peer-trusted certs can use alt names to spoof MFSA 2008-30 File...
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Apple plugged 25 security holes in components of its Mac OS X operating system on Monday, closing remote execution vulnerabilities in its Safari Web browser and the Ruby Web programming language. The software patch -- the fourth this year for Apple's...
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The number of signatures required to detect malicious code skyrocketed in the first half of 2008, increasing by 80 percent since the end of 2007, according to data released by antivirus firm F-Secure on Tuesday. The data -- part of the F-Secure's...
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Security-conscious users will have a choice to make in the next week. Software maker Opera released the latest version of its browser, Opera 9.5, on Thursday, and rival Mozilla announced it would release a major update of its Firefox browser on June 17...
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Software maker Opera announced on Friday that its browser of the same name will incorporate anti-malware features starting with the next version. The feature -- to be added in the next version of the browser, Opera 9.5 -- will prevent users from downloading...
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The Chinese territory of Hong Kong and the People's Republic of China are home to the largest fraction of malicious Web sites, according to a report published by antivirus company McAfee on Wednesday. In its report, Mapping the Mal Web Revisited ...
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Apple released its Security Configuration Guide for Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard" on Monday, a 240-page document that describes ways for sophisticated Mac users to further secure their systems. The manual includes an overview of the Mac OS X's...
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The Planet.com Internet Services Inc. hopes to have all 9,000 of its servers in its Houston data center back online later tonight following a blast that shut down the facility on Saturday afternoon. When firefighters arrived at around 5 p.m., they could...
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Google has fixed security vulnerabilities related to its Grand Central telecom service and its Google.com Web site, the company said Monday. Google fixed a cross-site scripting vulnerability on the log-in page for Grand Central , a service that allows...
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Old versions of Adobe Flash Player, perhaps the most widely used software in the world, contain known bugs that are being actively exploited online. If you are using any version of Flash Player, other than the latest, you should update to version 9.0...
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Multimedia tools developer Adobe stated on Tuesday in a brief blog post that the company is investigating reports of a previously unknown vulnerability in its Flash software, after it received evidence that attackers are using malicious Flash files to...
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Mozilla Corp. has identified 10 high-priority bugs in Firefox 3.0 — three of them pegged critical — but it won't decide until next week whether to release the browser anyway or restart the final stretch by issuing a second release candidate. "We...
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One of the researchers behind ScanAlert, the "Hacker Safe" certification company McAfee recently acquired, is facing fraud charges in Indiana. Continues at computerworld.com
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Thirty-eight people in the U.S. and Romania have been charged in two federal indictments alleging that they used complicated Internet phishing schemes to steal thousands of credit and debit card numbers, U.S. and Romanian authorities said today. The indictments...
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