The Horror Of Spyware
Coding Horror's Jeff Atwood ventured onto the Internet in search of no-cd game patches for a fresh re-installation of Windows XP SP2, and got nailed by a drive-by malware installation.
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Date: 2007-06-20
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State's Data Stolen In Ohio
Another data theft has occurred, and this one affects over 100,000 Ohioans. It's no clever hacker who was behind the breach, however - someone stole a device containing names and social security numbers out of an intern's car.
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Date: 2007-06-18
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NATO Takes A Look At Cyber Security
A man with the last name of "Gates" has advised NATO countries to brace themselves for cyber attacks, but it wasn't Bill, Microsoft's CEO. Instead, it was Robert, America's Defense Secretary.
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Date: 2007-06-15
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FBI, DOJ Reveal Operation Bot Roast
Operation Bot Roast has been a success - sort of. Information provided by the FBI and the Department of Justice revealed that "investigations have identified over 1 million victim computer IP addresses," but it seems that only a small number of arrests have come as a result.
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Date: 2007-06-14
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Captchas Go To The Dogs, Cats
Those strings of distorted letters and numbers are supposed to make things hard on spammers - not innocent users. But as spammers have gotten smarter, those captchas have gotten harder to read, and many companies are looking for a new type of defense. Pictures of Fluffy and Fido may provide exactly that.
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Date: 2007-06-13
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A Safari Zero Day Exploit
The good folks over at Larholm.com have developed a zero day exploit against the safari for windows browser that just requires a person visit a web site.
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Date: 2007-06-12
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Yahoo Posts Quick Fix For Messenger Bug
As always, it would have been best if the vulnerability hadn't existed in the first place. That said, you may have to give Yahoo credit for its quick response - after two sample attacks were posted online, the company patched up its messenger service within about 24 hours.
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Date: 2007-06-11
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Microsoft To Send Out Six On Patch Tuesday
This next Patch Tuesday will be a big one - Microsoft plans to release six new fixes, four of which will address critical vulnerabilities. Five of the six patches relate to issues of remote code execution.
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Date: 2007-06-08
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