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Virtual worlds under siege from cyber crime
News A virtual illness wiped out entire servers of users in World of Warcraft in 2005 when a design flaw allowed the disease to spread throughout low level players. W is for Wi-fi Security... [28 Aug 2008]
Firefox extension to protect from wireless hacks
News Perspectives also protects against attacks that exploit a recently exposed flaw in the DNS system, which translates web addresses into numerical IP addresses, said Dave Andersen, a computer science professor at Carnegie... [27 Aug 2008]
OpenID at risk due to DNS flaw, claims researcher
News Robin Wilton, a corporate architect for federated identity at Sun, described OpenID's reliance on the integrity of the Domain Name System (DNS) as a "multi-factor problem" in light of the discovery of a fundamental flaw... [14 Aug 2008]
Microsoft's 'Patch Tuesday' targets six critical flaws
News Versions of Office are affected by this flaw, including Office XP Service Pack 3 (SP3), and Office 2003 SP2 and SP3. Photos: Wi-fi in the great outdoors Microsoft has released six... [13 Aug 2008]
Dear silicon.com: Prison IT, iPhone wi-fi, and the clock ticking on XP...
Comment Get a clue.if there is an inherent flaw it affects all wi-fi-enabled devices. Yeah, blame the iPhone not the other two billion wi-fi-enabled phones? Any... [19 Jun 2008]
Happy 10th birthday Mozilla - there's a bug in your cake
News Mozilla has assigned a "low" severity rating to the flaw, and the vulnerability is being investigated by Firefox developers. Meanwhile, Mozilla's head of security, Window Snyder, has warned of a flaw in... [25 Jan 2008]
Bot attacks target those looking for romance
News Robot chatters are just one type of social-engineering attack that uses trickery rather than a software flaw to access victim's valuable information. W is for Wi-fi Security from A to Z... [10 Dec 2007]
Phishers snare Salesforce.com data
News To be clear, a phisher tricked someone into disclosing a password but this intrusion did not stem from a security flaw in our application or database. W is for Wi-fi Security from A to Z... [08 Nov 2007]
Hacking a Mac 'just works', says researcher
News A flaw in any one of these could be easily exploited over the web. Miller said his formula for finding a zero-day flaw on a Mac is this: "Find an open source package that they use that's out of date -... [14 Aug 2007]
Office at risk from bug trio
News Karthik Raman, a McAfee researcher wrote on the blog: "There is one heap-overflow flaw that might be exploited for code execution. Microsoft did not deliver any patches for Office on Tuesday, despite two vulnerabilities... [11 Apr 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: VoIP reality check
Comment The good news is that moves are afoot to fix this flaw in the internet and it is relatively easy to fix in intranets and ultimately telephone networks that move to IP. Written at home and dispatched to silicon.com from a... [26 Mar 2007]
Apple finally fixes wi-fi flaw
News An attacker could exploit the flaw over a wireless network by sending malicious data to a vulnerable Mac, Apple said. Apple has released a security update to plug a publicly known security hole in its AirPort product. [26 Jan 2007]
Apple plugs 31 holes in OS X
News Apple has released a security update for Mac OS X to repair 31 vulnerabilities, including a zero-day wi-fi hijack flaw. W is for Wi-fi Several of the... [29 Nov 2006]
Mac OS X flaw: US gov adds warning
News W is for Wi-fi Security from A to Z Click on the links below to find out more. A is for Antivirus B is for Botnets C is for CMA D is for DDoS E is for Extradition F is for Federated identity G is for Google [27 Nov 2006]
"Highly critical" Mac OS X kernel hole unearthed
News A security researcher has published attack code for an unpatched flaw in Mac OS X. The proof-of-concept code exploits a security hole in the way Apple's operating system handles disk image files, the researcher wrote on... [22 Nov 2006]
