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- An assault against a computer system or network as a result of deliberate, intelligent action; for example, denial of service attacks, penetration and sabotage. See attacker, attack vector, brute...
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- Patch Tuesday: Microsoft plugs critical Windows worm holes
- The company urged customers to prioritize and deploy four updates because of the "critical" severity rating and the fact that "consistent exploit code" is likely within the next 30 days. by Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2010-02-09
- Word Password Recovery Master 3.5 (Windows)
- So far users have had to use a combination of various attack types (brute-force, dictionary attack, brute-force with mask, Xiew attack) to recover word document passwords. And there was a possibility that the password would not be found even after searching for many hours. The situation has dramatically improved for...
- Software downloads 2010-02-05
- Microsoft warns of new IE data-leakage vulnerability
- Microsoft says the risk is highest for IE users running Windows XP or who have disabled the browser's Protected Mode feature. by Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2010-02-03
- BriefingsDirect analysts discuss ramifications of Google-China dust-up over corporate cyber attacks
- The ongoing tiff between Google and the Internet control authorities in China’s Communist Party-dominated government have uncorked a Pandora’s Box of security, free speech and corporate espionage issues. But there are also larger issues around security and Internet governance in general. by Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2010-02-03
- Internet attack defense: License and registration please...
- Governments all over the world are challenged with cyberspace security. Could regulations and government oversight and management be the solution? by Doug Hanchard
- Blog posts 2010-01-29
- Web Application Security — How to Minimize Prevalent Risk of Attacks
- Vulnerabilities in web applications are now the largest vector of enterprise security attacks. Stories about exploits that compromise sensitive data frequently mention culprits such as "cross-site scripting," "SQL injection," and "buffer overflow." Vulnerabilities like these fall often outside the traditional expertise of network security managers. To help you understand...
- White papers 2010-01-28
- Report: Cyberattackers hit Google staff via friends
- People behind the China-based online attacks of Google and other companies looked up key employees on social networks and contacted them pretending to be their friends to get the workers to click on links leading to malware, according to a report. by Elinor Mills CNET News
- News items 2010-01-26
- Tor Project suffers hack attack
- Hackers broke into two of Tor Project servers and used the CPU and bandwidth to launch additional attacks. by Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2010-01-22
- Expect Microsoft attack on open source citadel, says Allison
- Open source evangelist Jeremy Allison was in New Zealand yesterday, where he issued dire warnings of Microsoft launching a patent attack against open source to win back mobile market share. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2010-01-22
- Will switching from Internet Explorer make you safer?
- The panic over this month's wave of targeted, zero-day attacks against Internet Explorer is over. Microsoft has released an emergency security update that patches the underlying vulnerabilities, and everyone can breathe a sigh of relief. But what does this episode say about Internet Explorer? Is it inherently unsafe? by Ed...
- Blog posts 2010-01-22
- Microsoft confirms 17-year-old Windows vulnerability
- Microsoft warns that a malicious hacker could exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code in kernel mode. by Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2010-01-21
- Microsoft set to release critical IE patch today
- Microsoft is issuing on January 21 an out-of-band (meaning, not tied to a regular Patch Tuesday) fix for the Internet Explorer security breach that affected Google and other companies in China. Microsoft plans to make the fix, designated as "critical," available as close to 10 a.m. PST as possible, officials...
- Blog posts 2010-01-21
- ZIP RAR ACE Password Recovery 2.10.01 (Windows)
- ZIP RAR ACE Password Recovery is a program to recover lost or forgotten passwords on ZIP, RAR and ACE archives. Key Features: Unlimited Password Length; RAR 2.x and 3.x; RAR archives with encrypted Filenames Support; Multi-volume RAR archives; ZIP Archives Support; ACE Archives Support; SFX Archives Support; Brute-Force attack; Mask...
- Software downloads 2010-01-21
- Following the Google attack malware trail
- Do not understandHow do algorithms written and documented in Chinese link the attacks to the government of China?I don't understand how Googlelet this go for so long right under their very noses.I wonder how much they're not telling us?RE: Following the Google attack malware trailIt's unfortunate that China, such a...
- Discussion threads 2010-01-20
- Following the Google attack malware trail
- A researcher discovers that several components of the malware were written in mid-2006, more than three years before the attacks on Google, Adobe and others were first discovered. by Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2010-01-20
- Researcher demos clickjacking attack on Facebook
- Any defense?Other than don't use facebook? All OS versions affected?Nothing to do with OS.NoScript should stop this and similar clickjacking attacks.RE: Researcher demos clickjacking attack on FacebookThis is another reason I absolutely abhor applications released on Facebook, simply because the interface makes user navigation practically impossible.Andrea Akutagawahttp://liberate.it/"NoScript"?How and where do...
- Discussion threads 2010-01-20
- Researcher demos clickjacking attack on Facebook
- A demo exploit shows how easy it is to trick Facebook users into adding apps or other malicious content by hijacking clicks to what appears to be harmless links. by Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2010-01-20
- China's Baidu sues US domain registrar over attack
- Well, now they know how the rest of the world feels... NT.Hypocrisy ....The world's leading source-country for cyber-crap gets a dose of their own chicanery and can't wait to run to a US court and sue.But make it impossible to do the same thing to entities in their own country,...
- Discussion threads 2010-01-20
- China's Baidu sues US domain registrar over attack
- Leading Chinese search engine Baidu.com has filed a lawsuit that blames a US-based internet domain registrar for allegedly allowing a hacking attack that left the site disabled and defaced. by Steven Musil CNET News
- News items 2010-01-20
- If IE6 decommissioned; Google attack may never have happened?
- Well, Google will take responsibility for any and all attacks, they knewthat IE6 was a big problem and should have been prepared for it.That said, those responsible for IE6 still being used today should be castrated with a dull knife.That would include Balmer and Gates.Google's FaultThe outcry would be far...
- Discussion threads 2010-01-19
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