GFI LANguard 9.6 released
GFI Software released GFI LANguard 9.6, the first network security solution to automate missing patch detection and remediation for the top five Web browsers running on …
Week in review: Firesheep countermeasure tool, Facebook bug and Barracuda bug bounty program
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles and reviews: Firesheep countermeasure tool BlackSheep Zscaler researchers have created, …
Panda Cloud Internet Protection 3.2 released
Panda Cloud Internet Protection 3.2 includes monitoring and control of P2P protocols, even when encrypted, and protection for exploitable browser vulnerabilities. It also …
ElcomSoft breaks Firefox, Safari, Opera, and Chrome passwords
Elcomsoft Internet Password Breaker now retrieves cached passwords stored in a variety of email clients and Web browsers. The new update adds Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, …
Latest IE 0-day exploit finds its way into Eleonore toolkit
Microsoft will likely be forced to issue an out-of-band-patch for the zero-day vulnerability affecting Internet Explorer that has been discovered being exploited in the wild …
Firesheep countermeasure tool BlackSheep
Firesheep is the Firefox extension that makes it easier to steal logins and take over social media and email accounts after users log in from a WiFi hotspot or even their own …
New IE 0-day exploit code found in the wild
Exploit code for a previously unknown Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability that would allow an attacker to perform a remote code execution and install malware on the …
New vulnerability impacts Internet Explorer users
Microsoft is investigating new, public reports of a vulnerability in all supported versions of Internet Explorer. The main impact of the vulnerability is remote code …
Firefox 3.6.12 fixes critical security issue
Mozilla released Firefox 3.6.11 that fixes a critical security issue. Heap buffer overflow mixing document.write and DOM insertion Morten Kråkvik of Telenor SOC reported …
Breaking web browsers
In the video below, Jeremiah Grossman, the founder and CTO of WhiteHat Security, talks about breaking web security. The video was recorded at the OWASP AppSec USA 2010 conference.
Firefox extension makes social network ID spoofing trivial
A simple-to-use Firefox plugin presented yesterday at Toorcon in San Diego has hit the security world with the realization that squabbles about Facebook’s changing …
Google Chrome 7 includes security fixes
Google Chrome 7.0.517.41 has been released to the Stable and Beta channels for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Security fixes: Possible autofill / autocomplete profile spamming. …