Firefox 3.6.9 fixes numerous security issues
Mozilla released Firefox 3.6.9 that fixes several security issues as well as stability issues. Miscellaneous memory safety hazards Mozilla developers identified and fixed …
Facebook survey spam worm spreads like fire
What seems to be a security glitch in the Facebook Platform has been misused by a number of developers to push out links through statuses and private messages. The most …
Phishers exploit HMRC tax error refund
Tax authorities in the UK are in the process of contacting millions of people, telling them that they have paid the wrong amount of tax. As members of the public wait to be …
Sourcefire integrates with Qualys
Sourcefire announced an integration with QualysGuard. To support increased product collaboration, Sourcefire is delivering a new Qualys Connector, which associates threats …
AuthenTec and UPEK to merge
AuthenTec, a provider of security, identity management and touch control solutions, and UPEK, a supplier of fingerprint solutions, announced that the companies have combined, …
Twitter XSS vulnerability exploited in the wild
Malicious links leading to the download of a malicious JavaScript payload have been popping up on various Twitter accounts, warns Kaspersky‘s Stefan Tanase. The payload …
TechCrunch Europe hacked, serving malware
TechCrunch Europe has been compromised and its code changed to redirect visitors to a server serving up malicious PDFs. Once downloaded and run, the PDF files exploit a …
TrueCrypt 7.0a released
TrueCrypt 7.0a has been released. This version contains a workaround for a bug in some custom (non-Microsoft) drivers for storage device controllers that caused a system crash …
Facebook scam: “10 Things Adults Never Tell Their Kids”
Another very effective scam has been spotted coursing through Facebook, aided perhaps by the long Labor Day weekend and people’s wish to unwind and abundance of free …
Google settles Buzz privacy violation lawsuit
When Google Buzz was rolled out in February – without being publicly tested first – all kinds of privacy issues became apparent almost immediately. As the EFF …
Wireless car hacking due to poor security
Research from the University of California San Diego and the University of Washington – and which concludes that modern cars are susceptible to wireless hacking – …
Every week 57,000 fake Web addresses try to infect users
Every week, hackers are creating 57,000 new Web addresses which they position and index on leading search engines in the hope that unwary users will click them by mistake. …
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