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RSS attack blogScammers 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 "chat-in-the-middle" phishing... [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]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Can tech end bloody wars?
Comment Individuals, groups and nations can attack each other using denial-of-service attacks and/or control-and-command usurping with bot technology. Compiled on the M6 driving to Birmingham, edited later in my hotel, and... [28 Aug 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. Facebook on Thursday said it... [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 Twitter is front and... [17 Aug 2009]
Twitter goes down as another attack hits
News Twitter posted an update to its status blog when the servers had been in flux for about 10 minutes: "Responding to site downtime. At 19:17, Twitter confirmed that it was an attack. We're back up and... [12 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 attacks recently in... [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 rendering it... [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 Flash could be... [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 the browser running... [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 blog post... [16 Jul 2009]
Critical ActiveX Office hole under attack, warns Microsoft
News Antivirus vendor Sophos, meanwhile, said in a blog posting on its site that it had received reports of several websites, mostly in China, serving the exploit as part of a web exploit kit that downloads and runs a Windows... [14 Jul 2009]
Windows Video ActiveX Control at risk from flaw
News There have been limited attacks exploiting the hole, which affects Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, Microsoft said on its Security Response Center blog. Microsoft on Monday warned of a vulnerability in its Video... [07 Jul 2009]
Inside the Malicious World of Blog Comment Spam
White Paper This paper describes the code, behavior and infrastructure of a blog comment spam attack. The particular blog spam attack explained here uses HTTP/javascript obfuscation... [01 Jul 2009]
