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Scammers pose as banks in live chat hack
News After a user accesses the phishing site, the chat window messages come through the browser and not via a typical instant messenger application, RSA said in a blog post. Meanwhile, the... [18 Sep 2009]
WordPress blogs under spam, malware attack
News And it only affects people who host their own WordPress blog. WordPress has also posted an FAQ for people who think their blog has been hacked. The vulnerability allowing the attack was... [07 Sep 2009]
Google plugs two critical Chrome vulnerabilities
News With one attack on Google's V8 JavaScript engine, malicious JavaScript on a website could let an attacker gain access to sensitive data or run arbitrary code on the computer within a Chrome protected area called the... [26 Aug 2009]
Facebook crushes spam apps as five more attack
News Five more of the apps appeared on Thursday, called "Friends", "Friends Gifts", "Matching", "Pok" and "Your Photos", according to an updated blog post by Trend Micro researcher Rik Ferguson. According to... [21 Aug 2009]
Botnet finds a home on Twitter
News In a blog post Friday, Symantec analyst Peter Coogan wrote that researchers found an account, @upd4t3, which was tweeting out links to download a piece malware called Downloader.Sninfs. Security on... [17 Aug 2009]
Twitter blackout confirmed as denial-of-service attack
News Around 16:15, the status blog post was updated with "The site is back up but we are continuing to defend against and recover from this attack. There have been a notable number of DOS... [06 Aug 2009]
Microsoft releases emergency patch to plug critical ActiveX hole
News Internet Explorer users running Flash Player and Shockwave Player are vulnerable, Adobe said in a blog post. However, researchers figured out a way to get around the kill bit protection mechanism, thus... [29 Jul 2009]
Adobe probes Flash zero day bug after exploit found
News The authors of the exploit have managed to take a bug and turn it into a reliable exploit using a heap spray technique," Patrick Fitzgerald writes on a Symantec Security blog post. Any software that uses... [23 Jul 2009]
Is Chrome ready to shine when it comes to security?
News The Google Chrome operating system is a "natural extension" of the Chrome browser, Sundar Pichai, vice president of product management, and Linus Upson, engineering director, said in a blog post, with... [23 Jul 2009]
Mozilla unearths critical Firefox 3.5 Just-in-time hole
News Proof-of-concept code to exploit the vulnerability has been posted online by a security research group, Mozilla said in a post on its security blog on Wednesday. A workaround suggested in the... [16 Jul 2009]
Porn site goes on Mac attack
News Sophos on Wednesday discovered a new version of the Mac OS X Tored worm, according to a Sophos blog post. Mac users get redirected to the pagemac.php page, which downloads a QuickTime.dmg file, the... [12 Jun 2009]
'Best video' scam takes Twitterers to malware
News Contrary to earlier reports that the attack was a worm, the Kaspersky blog post speculates that the attackers were using accounts stolen in a phishing attack about a... [02 Jun 2009]
Apple tells users:'It's time to get antivirus'
News Brian Krebs, who first reported on the Apple antivirus recommendation Monday in his Security Fix blog at The Washington Post, said an Apple store employee told him he didn't need antivirus software when... [02 Dec 2008]
Microsoft patches flaw - after seven years
News Christopher Budd, a security programme manager in the Microsoft Security Response Center, said in a blog post on Thursday that, while Microsoft had been aware of the vulnerability, fixing it would have... [14 Nov 2008]
OpenID at risk due to DNS flaw, claims researcher
News Wilton wrote in a blog post on Friday: "You may have seen the recent announcements about DNS cache poisoning, and the potential effect of this on all kinds of internet-based applications' security.... [14 Aug 2008]
