Gmail, Yahoo, and Hotmail Routinely Abused by Spammers
According to Commtouch Software an average of about 10 million zombie computers are sending an average of 3 million messages every day. Many of those messages are sent through the top three Web-based mail services.
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Turn Digital Objects Into Passwords
At the recent Usenix conference two researchers presented a new way to generate high entropy passwords using common objects, such as text and images. The technique might be useful when passwords need to be shared.
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Researcher Says DNS Still Vulnerable
Even this the latest patches, BIND is still vulnerable to DNS cache poisoning attacks. But, so far it looks like this isn't nearly as a bad as the previous cache poisoning situation.
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Selling Vulnerability Research - Ethical or Not?
Every so often this topic comes to the forefront and is cause for some amount of debate. Recently a researcher found himself in the spotlight over his desire to be compensated for his research.
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EFF Steps Up to Advise Security Researchers
This year, Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) stepped more directly into the legal implications of security research and disclosure by setting up a booth at Black Hat USA.
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Thieves Gaming The Gamers
As the world of PC gaming continues to expand so does the spread of malware designed to steal online game credentials from less-than-savvy PC users.
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Tumbleweed to Merge With Axway
Security solution provider Tumbleweed now has shareholder approval to merge with Axway, maker of collaborative business solutions.
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Three Reporters Tossed Out of Black Hat
Three reporters from Global Security Mag thought it'd be funny to sniff the network traffic of other reporters at the Black Hat conference. The stunt backfired on the trio, who got booted out.
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DOJ Announces Fraudster Smackdown
The DOJ recently indicted 11 people on numerous charges for their roles in stealing over 40 million credit and debit card numbers from major retailers, including Barnes & Noble, OfficeMax, Sports Authority, TJX, and other companies.
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MySpace, Facebook, and Twitter Users Targeted for Malware
Over the past week new forms of malware have been discovered at three social networking sites. Some of the malware is cross-infecting users of other social networking sites.
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Microsoft Set To Release 12 Security Updates
Get ready for a load of patches. Microsoft is set to release security updates for Windows 2000, XP, Server 2003, and Vista plus Internet Explorer and Office.
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Firefox Due For An Update
Another update for Firefox 3.x is on the way after Radware discovered a vulnerability using a fuzzer tool.
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Future Security Trends Apparent Today
Two main areas of tremendous growth for the future are web applications and virtualization, both of which security administrators need to focus on in their environments.
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Aladdin Adds Two-Factor Authentication Via Acquisition
Aladdin Knowledge Systems announced that it will acquire Secure Computing's SafeWord technology, which provides two-factor authentication for a variety of platforms and applications.
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Critical Vulnerability in WebLogic Plug-In for Apache
Oracle issued an advisory regarding a critical security problem in its WebLogic Server. If you're using the platform, then you need to implement a workaround to gain the necessary protection.
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McAfee Expands Into Data Loss Prevention
McAfee agreed to spend $46 million in cash to acquire privately owned Reconnex, maker of data loss prevention solutions.
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Crashing Firefox 3.0
I found a Web page from a major magazine that crashes Firefox 3.0 repeatedly. I doubt that the page is malicious, instead there's probably a nasty bug in the browser. Does this page crash your browser?
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Security Vulnerabilities You Can't Fix
At the upcoming Hack In The BOX (HITB) Conference, independent researcher Kris Kaspersky plans to release proof-of-concept (POC) code that exposes exploitable bugs in Intel CPUs.
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New Method of Attacking Disk Encryption
Encryption keys are often stored in memory, and memory doesn't necessarily lose its contents immediately when a system is powered off--which results in a serious weakness that can be exploited to gain access to data.
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AirDefense to Join Motorola as Wholly Owned Subsidiary
Privately-held wireless security solution provider AirDefense is set to become a subsidiary of Motorola, the two companies announced.
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