Secunia Spars With Microsoft Over IE7
Denmark-based Secunia has brought up a trio of Internet Explorer 7 issues since Microsoft formally launched its new browser, and both sides have traded pointed comments about its vulnerabilities.
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Date: 2006-10-31
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n3td3v - Security Trolls
N3td3v is/was a security troll that plagued the full disclosure list for quite a while, claiming to be a yahoo security engineer, with his own mailing list at yahoo groups, yahoo personal page and a host of other places that you could find him.
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Date: 2006-10-25
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Schneier's Counterpane Sells To BT
BT Group, the formerly-called British Telecom, has acquired the Counterpane Internet Security firm, which lists well-known cryptography and security expert Bruce Schneier as its CTO.
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Date: 2006-10-25
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Losing The Botnet War
The sophisticated SpamThru Trojan delivers a client that performs AV scans to get rid of rivals on a victim's computer and communicates through peer to peer technology. That is just one of many examples of bots that plague people from non-technical web surfers to administrators of vast enterprise networks.
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Date: 2006-10-24
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An iPod Virus
An Apple contractor who supplies iPod hard drives uses a Windows machine as part of its manufacturing/testing process.
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Date: 2006-10-23
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Less Than Zero
The security industry and trade press have directed a lot of attention toward the "Zero-day attack," promoting it as THE threat to guard against.
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Date: 2006-10-23
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Secunia Refutes Microsoft IE7 Argument
Microsoft's contention that the vulnerability reported by advisory firm Secunia exists because of an issue in Outlook Express drew a strong response from Secunia's CTO Thomas Kristensen.
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Date: 2006-10-20
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Malware Gets t.A.T.u'd
Security company Sophos is reporting that an email Trojan is circulating via an attachment promising photos of the Russian school girl lesbian pop duo t.AT.u.
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Date: 2006-10-19
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Microsoft Is The Least Of Your Worries
Even though the official announcement of the availability of Internet Explorer 7 was quickly followed by news of its first zero-day exploit, eEye founder, CTO, and chief hacking officer Marc Maiffret thinks people need to realize that when it comes to technology, it's more than a Microsoft world out there.
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Date: 2006-10-19
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Hosed by a Windows Update
I know Microsofties are listening out there, so rather than rant and rave, I'll just explain what happened and see if anyone from MS has a suggestion.
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Date: 2006-10-16
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Would You Like McSpyware With That?
We'll give McDonald's the benefit of the doubt and call this a colossal blunder rather than a sinister plot. Not very good options are they? Details are sketchy so far, but apparently 10,000 lucky Japanese winners got a Trojan virus along with their new McMP3 Players.
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Date: 2006-10-16
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AJAX and Security
Jay Lyman over at LinuxInsider has an interesting article on security concerns with the AJAX development technique.
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Date: 2006-10-11
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Spammer Cajoles ICANN To Ban Spamhaus
The Realtime Blackhole List (RBL) published by Spamhaus.org could be in jeopardy as a potential court order may compel ICANN to suspend the Spamhaus domain name, all at the behest of a mass mailer.
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Date: 2006-10-10
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Google Blog Hacked Again
For the second time this year (the first was in March), the official Google blog fell victim to someone taking advantage of Blogger to make them look stupid.
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Date: 2006-10-09
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Vista Kill Switch: Only For Shoplifters
The Washington Post reported that Microsoft is taking Windows Genuine Advantage a little further, sending Vista into a reduced functionality mode within 30 days of being detected as illegitimate.
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Date: 2006-10-09
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McAfee Acquires Citadel
McAfee, Inc. announced it will acquire all of the assets of Citadel Security Software Inc. for approximately $56 million in cash, plus an estimated $4 million in working capital reimbursement.
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Date: 2006-10-04
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How safe is it to make a call over the Internet?
Concerns over the security of using the Internet to make calls is one of the few things affecting the growing popularity of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), the ability to make calls over data networks such as the Internet.
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Date: 2006-10-04
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Social Networking and Safety
October is National Cyber Awareness month, and who better than CA and the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) to give us some helpful info to stay safe online...
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Date: 2006-10-04
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Sophos Shows HIPS
Sophos has made available its Host Intrusion Prevention System (HIPS), designed to identify and block suspicious programs before they execute.
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Date: 2006-10-03
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Kaspersky Top Twenty Back To Normal
Kaspersky Lab has released its latest Online Scanner Top Twenty, and the report indicates that, in comparison to last month, "the malware landscape has returned to a more normal state of affairs."
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Date: 2006-10-02
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