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Adobe promises Reader zero-day patch on Friday
Posted on Dec 15 2011 07:03 PM by xper in Security
Adobe today said it will release a patch Friday for an older version of the Reader PDF viewer to stymie attacks like those aimed at major defense contractors earlier this month.Nine days ago, the company confirmed a critical bug in Reader and prom...
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Google fixes 15 vulnerabilities in Chrome browser
Posted on Dec 14 2011 09:43 PM by xper in Security
Google has released Chrome 16, a new stable version of its Web browser that addresses 15 high- and medium-risk vulnerabilities. Four of the security flaws patched in this release stem from errors in Chrome's built-in PDF parser, which is based...
Hackers may develop a 'computer virus' to infe...
Posted on Dec 14 2011 08:05 PM by xper in Security
"Synthetic biology" is accelerating "faster than computer technology", say experts who have warned that hackers could someday use it to develop a computer virus to bend human minds. According to Andrew Hessel of Singularity Univers...
Microsoft Shows Security Improvements with 2011 Patch ...
Posted on Dec 14 2011 07:41 PM by xper in Security
Microsoft on Tuesday issued 13 security bulletins. Only three were rated critical. That's a small reprieve since IT admins expected 14 bulletins -- the fix for the so-called Beast attack did not make it into this release.December's Patc...
A New Printer Hack Sounds Like Remote-Controlled Arson
Posted on Nov 29 2011 02:59 PM by xper in Security
Hacking somebody's printer remotely seems like a silly idea -- how would you pick up your fraudulent documents? But researchers at Columbia say they've found a way to do it , and one effect could be setting the things on fire from afar. In...
Microsoft fixes gaping hole in Windows TCP/IP stack
Posted on Nov 09 2011 05:49 AM by xper in Security
Microsoft has released its November batch of security bulletins with fixes for at least four documented vulnerabilities affecting the Windows operating system. The updates address remote code execution and denial-of-service issues in all versions ...
MS Patch Tuesday heads-up: Expect 'critical' I...
Posted on Oct 10 2011 04:37 AM by xper in Security
Microsoft’s monthly pilgrimage to the security patch altar will resume next Tuesday with fixes for gaping security holes in software products used by tens of millions of computer users.In all, the Redmond, Wash. software maker will ship 8 security...
Mozilla puts Firefox 7 on memory diet, patches 11 bugs
Posted on Sep 29 2011 05:30 AM by xper in Security
Mozilla yesterday patched 11 vulnerabilities in the desktop edition of Firefox as it upgraded the browser to version 7. The company has batted a thousand so far in its rapid release schedule: Firefox 7 marks the third consecutive upgrade that Mozi...
Microsoft: SSL/TLS attacks highly improbable, but may ...
Posted on Sep 27 2011 02:35 PM by xper in Security
Microsoft has issued a security advisory about an exploit that can decrypt SSL and TLS Web traffic. While actual attacks are considered improbable, a security patch to protect Microsoft software is likely on the way.As noted by Ars last week, secu...
Microsoft fixes 22 security bugs
Posted on Aug 09 2011 07:51 PM by xper in Security
Microsoft released 13 patches Tuesday to fix 22 security flaws affecting several of its programs, including Internet Explorer and Windows. Of the 13 separate security bulletins, two of them, for Windows and Internet Explorer, are classified as ...
Microsoft slates 22 patches for Windows, IE next week
Posted on Aug 04 2011 09:39 PM by xper in Security
Microsoft today said it will ship 13 security updates next week to patch 22 vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer, Windows, Visio and Visual Studio. Next Tuesday's patch lineup is larger than July's on the update count, but matches that mon...
Facebook glitch exposes private videos
Posted on Jul 25 2011 11:17 AM by xper in Security
Just as our friends at The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal are reporting about a start-up that rats you out to potential employers based on your drunken or otherwise ill-advised social-media posts, our pals at TechCrunch have gotten a t...
Patch Tuesday Fixes Critical Bluetooth Flaw in Windows 7
Posted on Jul 12 2011 10:08 PM by xper in Security
Patch Tuesday has arrived. As expected, Microsoft released a relatively small number of patches for July , but that is no reason for IT admins to let their guard down--especially when one of the patches is a Critical update for Windows 7 and Windo...
Kevin Mitnick shows how easy it is to hack a phone
Posted on Jul 08 2011 10:07 AM by xper in Security
British tabloid News of the World said today it is closing down over a phone hacking scandal in which workers for the Rupert Murdoch-owned newspaper allegedly snooped on voice mail messages left on the mobile phones of murder victims, as well as c...
Four patches expected from Microsoft on next Patch Tue...
Posted on Jul 08 2011 07:29 AM by xper in Security
Microsoft is to release four patches for Windows and Office on its next Patch Tuesday. It announced that it will release three patches for Windows, two to cover an important elevation of privilege flaw and a critical patch to cover a remote code e...
Microsoft Shares Source Code for Wi-Fi Data Collection...
Posted on Jul 04 2011 09:34 AM by xper in Security
There continues to be a high level of public interest in how and why companies collect Wi-Fi access point information. Windows Phone division president Andy Lees recently talked about the privacy principles that were used in designing location-ba...
Microsoft clarifies MBR rootkit removal advice
Posted on Jun 30 2011 05:41 PM by xper in Security
Microsoft yesterday clarified the advice it gave users whose Windows PCs are infected with a new, sophisticated rootkit that buries itself on the hard drive's boot sector. Several security researchers agreed with Microsoft's revisions, but...
Hacking collective LulzSec says it is disbanding
Posted on Jun 26 2011 06:28 AM by xper in Security
LulzSec, the gleeful and secretive band of hackers who appear to be responsible for a string of high-profile and sometimes embarrassing Internet attacks, said it was disbanding."For the past 50 days we've been disrupting and exposing corpo...
Outages hit websites after FBI seizes servers
Posted on Jun 22 2011 09:41 PM by xper in Security
The FBI seized web-hosting servers from a data facility on Tuesday, causing a number of sites to go down or transfer operations to other facilities. Agents confiscated three racks of blade servers from a facility in Maryland run by DigitalOne, the...
Lulzsec hacking group shrugs off arrest
Posted on Jun 22 2011 06:50 AM by xper in Security
The hacking group known as LulzSec pledged to continue their online rampage Tuesday, a day after police arrested a man allegedly affiliated with the group. Scotland Yard initially declined to name the 19 year old man, but LulzSec identified him as...
Adobe patches second Flash zero-day in 9 days
Posted on Jun 15 2011 07:19 PM by xper in Security
For the second time in nine days, Adobe on Tuesday patched a critical vulnerability in Flash Player that hackers were already exploiting. Adobe also updated its popular Reader PDF viewer to quash 13 new bugs and several older ones the company had ...
Autorun-abusing malware (Where are they now?)
Posted on Jun 15 2011 07:21 AM by xper in Security
On Feb. 8, Microsoft started releasing updates for the Windows XP and Vista platforms to make the Autorun feature more locked-down on those older platforms by preventing AutoPlay from being enabled automatically (except when it comes to "shiny...
Turkey Cracks Down On Anonymous Hacking Group With 32 ...
Posted on Jun 15 2011 07:06 AM by xper in Security
Turkey arrested 32 people allegedly connected to the hacker group Anonymous after members launched a series of denial-of-service attacks that shut down Turkish government and telecom Web sites. Turkish officials reportedly apprehended the individu...
Microsoft patches critical IE9, Windows bugs
Posted on Jun 14 2011 07:00 PM by xper in Security
Microsoft today patched 34 vulnerabilities in Windows, Internet Explorer (IE), Office and other software, 15 of them labeled "critical" by the company. The large number of updates -- as well as the fact that Microsoft issued them two hours...
LulzSec goes on hacking rampage against game sites
Posted on Jun 14 2011 06:41 PM by xper in Security
Lulz Security has struck again but many gamers aren't lulzing ... er ... laughing at the hacking group's latest antics. Through its Twitter account Tuesday, LulzSec claimed it had taken down gaming magazine The Escapist as well as the web...