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Spam surge drives net crime spree - 6 January 2007
The tussle between computer security companies trying to protect your PC and the bad guys that try to compromise it is often characterised as an arms race.
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Is PHP safer than ASP scripting? - 29 December 2006
PHP is arguably more secure than other scripting languages such as ASP, yet it is PHP scripts that are (according to this article) causing the most security issues for web applications.
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Bots and Bugs Cause Headaches for 2006 - 31 December 2006
Online fraudsters, big-time spammers and computer intruders had little problem finding security holes to exploit in 2006.
Whether the openings came from user ignorance or poor judgment, a softwar...more info>>> |
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New Year`s Day Email Worm Alert - 31 December 2006
Not so happy a new year. Users could get a nasty shock when opening new year messages, Verisign is warning of a new worm arriving in inboxes with the subject "Happy New Year!"
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Criminals increasingly turn to zombie PCs - 7 January 2007
Microsoft fears the rise of the botnet. Zombie computers are now the major threat facing today's security industry said a senior Microsoft security official. The rise of the zombie PC (also known as b...more info>>> |
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QuickTime Issues Still Plague Websites - 8 January 2007
Similar to the issue that allowed the MySpace worm to parade through the popular social networking site, another flaw in Apple's QuickTime can be exploited.Windows and Mac users are vulnerable to a p...more info>>> |
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Instant Messaging Threats on the Increase - 10 January 2007
More than 400 attacks on instant messenger (IM) platforms were spotted last year, an increase of 15 percent from the year before, according to researchers at Akonix.
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Pay for Flaw - 16 January 2007
VeriSign's iDefense Labs has placed an $8,000 bounty on remote code execution holes in Windows Vista and Internet Explorer 7.
The Reston, Va., security intelligence outfit threw out the monetary re...more info>>> |
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Man-in-the-middle Attacks - 17 January 2007
RSA's Anti-Fraud Command Center (AFCC) discovered an internet forum populated by fraudsters that is offering a set of tools to create a man-in-the-middle scheme, according to a company news release.
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Vista can go tell itself to get deleted...literally! - 3 February 2007
Microsoft says that speech recognition features in Vista could be hijacked so that a PC tells itself to delete files.Link to full articleCourtesy of bbc.co.uk...more info>>> |
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