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Ten little things to secure your online presence
Here's some basic advice on the tools and tricks you can implement immediately to secure your identity and online presence.
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Should we be focusing on vulnerabilities or exploits?
Mitja Kolsek argues that there’s a hidden danger in focusing on limiting exploitability instead of exterminating vulnerabilities.
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Mozilla patches 'critical' Firefox security hole
Mozilla rates this a “critical” vulnerability that can be used to run attacker code and install software, requiring no user interaction beyond normal browsing.
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Patch Tuesday heads-up: 21 vulnerabilities, including 'critical' IE bulletin
Fixes coming for dangerous security holes in Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, the Internet Explorer browser and .NET/Silverlight.
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Which are the most commonly observed Web exploits in the wild?
M86Security’s newly released report “Security Labs Report - July – December 2011 Recap”, details some of the most commonly observed Web exploits currently in the wild.
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Researchers spot a fake version of Temple Run on Android's Market
Security researchers from TrendMicro have spotted a fake version of popular game Temple Run, currently available at Android’s Market.
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Spamvertised 'Tax information needed urgently' emails lead to malware
Security researchers from AppRiver, have intercepted a currently spamvertised malware campaign, enticing end users into clicking on malicious links.
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'Offensive security research community helping bad guys'
Adobe security chief Brad Arkin argues that benevolent security researchers who publish techniques to defeat security mitigations are doing a major disservice.
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Coming to Firefox: Flash Player in a sandbox
Adobe says sandboxing technology has proven very effective in protecting users by increasing the cost and complexity of writing effective exploits.
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Hackers pounce on just-patched Windows Media vulnerability
The end result is a malicious Trojan with rootkit capabilities. The attack happens silently in the background and all the user sees is a blank WMP application playing a file.
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How SCADA highlights the futility of finding security vulnerabilities
Pete Lindstrom argues that ‘irresponsible’ disclosure of security holes in SCADA systems could put human lives at risk and calls on the security research community to start thinking about the vulnerability problem in different ways.