Don’t be in a rush to get the new Firefox 3.0 as Mozilla themselves disclosed that the software still has critical flaws:
Mozilla has identified 10 high-priority bugs in Firefox 3.0, three of them pegged “critical,” but won’t decide until next week whether to release the browser anyway or restart the final stretch by issuing a […]
Microsoft issued security bulletins and patched for four vulnerabilities today. Three of the flaws, in Microsoft Word, Publisher and the Jet database engine, are critical in at least some configurations. A fourth vulnerability, in Microsoft’s malware detection engine, maxes out at moderate.
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Hackers are trying to exploit a critical Windows vulnerability recently patched on Tuesday, security researchers say and the only version of Windows not at risk is the unfinished Windows XP SP3. Fortunately, attack incompetence means that these initial sorties have been unsuccessful, Symantec Corp. said in a brief warning to customers of its DeepSight threat […]
A staggering 3/4 of phishing sites are built on hacked servers that have been tracked down using pre-programmed Google search terms, according to research from brand-protection firm MarkMonitor. Among other activities, MarkMonitor tracks phishing attacks that target brand names. Researchers have compiled a list of 750 Google search terms that are used to track down […]
Be extra careful when opening documents in Windows, especially if they are Microsoft Word files. Microsoft on Friday warned that cyber criminals may be taking advantage of an unpatched flaw in the Windows operating system to install malicious software on a victim’s PC. The reported attack, now under investigation by Microsoft, involves a malicious Word […]
If you’re using Apple’s Safari browser, PayPal has some advice for you: Dont Use it, at least if you want to avoid online fraud. Safari doesn’t make PayPal’s list of recommended browsers because it doesn’t have two important anti-phishing security features, according to Michael Barrett, PayPal’s chief information security officer.
“Apple, unfortunately, is lagging behind what […]
The Web is scarier than most people realize, according to research published recently by Google. The search engine giant trained its Web crawling software on billions of Web addresses over the past year looking for malicious pages that tried to attack their visitors. They found more than 3 million of them, meaning that about one […]
Get ready to patch your Microsoft Works installation as hackers have posted the code on the world wild web opening the floodgates for possible exploits.
The proof-of-concept code, posted Wednesday to the Milw0rm Web site, exploits a bug in the Microsoft Works file converter software that is part of Office 2003 and can be used […]
Microsoft has just released 11 security updates that fix critical flaws in its products, including a publicly known ActiveX bug that affects users of the Visual FoxPro database. In total, 17 individual software flaws were patched in the updates. Microsoft rates six updates as critical, meaning users should install them as soon as possible, while […]
Mozilla Corp. has bumped up the threat ranking for an unpatched Firefox bug to “high” Tuesday, but promised a fix is coming in Version 2.0.0.12, now slated for release on Feb. 5. The company’s head of security, Window Snyder, confirmed that the browser, when running any of more than 600 add-ons, can be exploited to […]
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