Vulnerability
« Previous EntriesMicrosoft Makes Firefox Vulnerable
Monday, October 19th, 2009If you haven’t already heard about this, earlier this year Microsoft released a .NET plugin for Firefox that opened Firefox up to some serious vulnerabilities. The Mozilla foundation found out about this and released an update, which blocks this plugin and give a notification somewhere along the lines of: Firefox has determined that the following [...]
Conficker worm to Spread April 1st, 2009
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009Sorry all for not ahving time to write a little more digest version of this important news brief, but here is an excerpt from Inside Tech, with a link to the original article from Daily Tech below. As a reminder, Update, Update, Update! ‘The worm that won’t go away will get an upgrade on April [...]
DNS Server Critical Design Flaw Leaves DNS Servers Open to Attack
Thursday, July 24th, 2008Dan Kaminsky, director of penetration testing for security firm IOActive, found a critical flaw in Domain Name Servers while doing non-security research over 6 months ago. Most corporate DNS servers have already been patched, but this just shows how a new design implementation needs to be enacted to prevent things like this from happpening. The [...]
Windows Service pack 3 still vulnerable
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008Sorry everyone for not posting this sooner, but I forgot… A couple of weeks back when Micro$oft released service pack 3, they released an older version of Flash player (9.0.115.0) that was release by Adobe back in December 2007, which was superseded by Version 9.0.124.0 on April 8. Better update that flash player quick…
MySpace mp3’s left wide open
Monday, August 27th, 2007I am not sure how many people know about this, but Dave Shanley has a very demonstrative and straight forward article explaining the ease of downloading protected music via Myspace. I do not encourage this at all, but I do believe that it should be known. This is very minimal for MySpace, considering the amount [...]
Identity Theft and Internet Fraud Expanding to Job Search Sites
Monday, August 27th, 2007Internet fraudsters have found yet another way to take your personal information and use it against you. This attack targets people that post their resumes on Job searching sites such as Career Builder and Monster Jobs. Security company Symantec, reported a new trojan named infostealer.montres, which was trying to access the job posting site monster.com. [...]