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Heads up: Patch your Adobe Reader now

Heads up: Patch your Adobe Reader nowPCs Need Protection from their SoftwareMicrosoft just reported that roughly 90% of reported vulnerabilities were in applications. The familiar signature-based tools that live on nearly every PC are missing today's malware designed to elude them. More on that here:http://www.securitynowblog.com/endpoint_security/secunia_report_signature-based_antivirus_misses_most_unknown_malwareand here:http://www.securitynowblog.com/endpoint_security/signature-based-antivirus-and-hips-technologies-poor-endpoint-protectionBefore buying a...

Tags: administrative right, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Adobe Reader now, Adobe Systems Inc., Heads Up, Microsoft Windows, Opera Software ASA, RemoveAdmin

Discussion threads 2008-11-04

Apple plugs gaping QuickTime security holes

Apple plugs gaping QuickTime security holesLooks to me Quicktime has been put through a codeanalyser, given the type of problems identified.About time Apple, and good work.Wow, that's a lot of critical vulnerabilitiesAnd last month there were a ton.And the month before that there were a ton.Gee, kind of makes you...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Apple QuickTime, Apple Inc., security

Discussion threads 2008-09-09

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Google and Adobe join forces on Open Screen Project

No one wants to install the Flash plugin?You mean the 100 people who won't already have it installed by default on their new PC?-MRE: Google and Adobe join forces on Open Screen ProjectIs Google going to take control of everything you watch like they tried to do in Chrome?No the...

Tags: Channel management, Web browsers, Adobe Systems Inc., Google Inc., web tool, WebKit, Microsoft Corp., Web

Discussion threads 2009-10-05

Survey: 45% of IT departments will move to Windows 7; 43% refuse to migrate off Windows XP

Survey: 45% of IT departments will move to Windows 7; 43% refuse to migrate off Windows XPPenny wise, pound foolish.XP is unsecurable. Enterprise AV, all the tools, etc, it is fundamentally broken. All these enterprises deal with constant and unrelenting security threats. It really has no place...

Tags: Operating systems, survey, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7

Discussion threads 2009-07-01

MS Patch Tuesday: 8 bulletins, 20 vulnerabilities

MS Patch Tuesday: 8 bulletins, 20 vulnerabilitiesyet another reason to use Vista"Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights"==> In Vista all users have limited privileges by default thanks to UAC: yet another...

Tags: SECURITY, Operating systems, vulnerability, MS Patch Tuesday, MS patch, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-04-14

Survey says: Cloud computing proving to be a two-edged sword in a down economy

Survey says: Cloud computing proving to be a two-edged sword in a down economyToo much hypeRemember when everyone said "client/server" computing was going to kill the mainframe? Yeah that was before something called the Internet took off. Of course such idealistic notions forgot to consider the fact that if you...

Tags: Virtualization, cloud computing, Survey Says, two-edged sword, sword, survey

Discussion threads 2009-03-09

Apple QuickTime bitten by code execution flaws

Apple QuickTime bitten by code execution flawsWhat OSs are vulnerable by default?Windows? OS X? Linux? Do any of these have QuickTime installed on them by default?RE: Apple QuickTime bitten by code execution flawsso the macs adds saying that they dont get virus and malware.. and saying they are stable and...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Cyberthreats, Apple QuickTime, Apple Inc., code execution flaw, execution flaw

Discussion threads 2009-01-21

'Extremely severe' vulnerabilities in Opera browser

'Extremely severe' vulnerabilities in Opera browserNow I could have sworn......that on the thread listing FF as insecure that someone said FF had been exposed and Opera was the real secure browser lol.Just shows that even the supposedly most secure browser has flawsBrowsers, by dint of their job, interact with insecure...

Tags: browser version, Mozilla Firefox, Opera browser, Opera Software ASA, vulnerability, Web browser

Discussion threads 2008-12-16

Secunia: popular security suites failing to block exploits

Secunia: popular security suites failing to block exploitsPatch your applications...And don't run your browser with administrative rights (in case you forget to patch those applications, e.g., WinAmp, QuickTime, etc).If you're on Windows XP/2000 or Vista and you've foolishly turned off UAC, you can use this tool:http://www.download.com/RemoveAdmin/3000-2381_4-10824971.html?tag=lst-1&cdlPid=10835515Thing is, RemoveAdmin is a...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Secunia, popular security suite, exploit, security suite, Kaspersky, security

Discussion threads 2008-10-14

Opera bitten by 'extremely severe' browser bug

Opera bitten by 'extremely severe' browser bugThanks for the heads upUpgrading to Opera 9.6 now.RE: Opera bitten by 'extremely severe' browser bugDid that yesterday when they released it. However I wish that they could patch the "Clickjecking" vulnerability. I know this "Clickjacking" vulnerability is part of the older HTML spec...

Tags: administrative right, browser bug, Opera Software ASA, Web browser

Discussion threads 2008-10-09

DoS vulnerability hits Google's Chrome, crashes with all tabs

DoS vulnerability hits Google's Chrome, crashes with all tabsChrome will have security problems, and they will NOT all of a sudden gainshare. That said, the Google brand is very powerful, and people use it every day to search, and there will be lest resistance to trying Chrome than there was...

Tags: Web browsers, SECURITY, Google Chrome, Chrome, DoS vulnerability, Google Inc., DOS, vulnerability

Discussion threads 2008-09-03

Linux under attack: Compromised SSH keys lead to rootkit

Linux under attack: Compromised SSH keys lead to rootkitLinux under attack: Compromised SSH keys lead to rootkitLOL! And the hits to linux just keep coming! So thats 4 different incidents within a week's time of how badly linux sucks. Poor linus must be hiding under his bed trying...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Rootkits, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, SSH, attack, Compromised SSH, Compromised, Microsoft Windows, rootkit, security

Discussion threads 2008-08-26

Does TraceMonkey kick Firefox into turbo mode?

Does TraceMonkey kick Firefox into turbo mode?Wow, we are breaking down the barriers to web application adoption for allof our every day applications. The speed here will be so close to natively compiled code that it will not matter any more. But, we still need some kind of a sandboxed...

Tags: Web browsers, Scripting languages, Mozilla Firefox, Web browser, JavaScript, Microsoft Corp., security, Apple Safari

Discussion threads 2008-08-26

Where on earth are these Microsoft patches?

Where on earth are these Microsoft patches?exploits exploitsJust get a Mac. I did after 15 years with Windows. I will never go back. Not a "fanboy", just sick of problems."critical, code execution vulnerability"Ryan,What I find really frustrating for this "security blog" is that targeted mitigation is never...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, administrative right, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., patch management

Discussion threads 2008-08-14

State AGs ignore phishing, spyware

State AGs ignore phishing, spywareDo they have a choice?Law enforcement often deals with more pressing issues, vice, domestic crime, etc., etc. Running off to China and/or Russia and/or former Soviet block countries to chase "bad guys" I doubt is high on their list. But you knew this as your post...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Spyware, adware & malware, Viruses and worms, Microsoft Windows, SECURITY, malware, State AG, phishing, spyware

Discussion threads 2008-08-12

Windows security rendered useless? Uh, not exactly

Windows security rendered useless? Uh, not exactlyOh no!!Another Bott post!!!! I glad there is no more nonsense comparison between two different things.Um, Ed ...... I know you read the paper because I sent you the PDF, but it seems you failed to notice a few things.You accuse me of "alarming...

Tags: Web browsers, Defense-in-Depth, exploitation, Microsoft Windows, memory corruption vulnerability, Web browser, security

Discussion threads 2008-08-11

Windows broken ... I'm surprised it took this long

Windows broken ... I'm surprised it took this longBest security is to take computers off the NetFor my computers at home, there is now only one that has firewalled access to the Internet. My kids' computers DO NOT. My media server DOES NOT. The PC with my finance stuff and...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Web browsers, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, UAC, administrative right

Discussion threads 2008-08-09

Torvalds attacks IT industry 'security circus'

Torvalds attacks IT industry 'security circus'Torvalds attacks IT industry 'security circus'So Linus admits that there are security flaws in linux as well as other bugs? I've been saying that for a long time but the fanboys wouldn't believe me. Now that their leader finally admits to it perhaps...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, L.D., Name-calling, Linus, Torvalds, security, attack, IT industry, OpenBSD

Discussion threads 2008-07-17

Mystery explained: Why you have to reboot Windows so often

Mystery explained: Why you have to reboot Windows so oftenYou failed to explain...WHY rebooting in necessary.It's because of the Windows architecture. It is so monolithic that it can't recover from simple application errors. When one thing goes wrong, it is a snow ball effect. Other OS's do not suffer nearly...

Tags: Linux, Operating systems, Other OS, reBoot Windows, operating system, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-06-28

RemoveAdmin 0.1 (Windows)

This installer installs a small proxy program and corresponding shortcuts for Firefox and IE that will remove administrative rights when launching either Web browser, respectively. After installation, completely quit from the browser you are using, then launch it with the "Secure" shortcut. Now go to your favorite Web page, right...

Tags: Malware, Web Browser, MasterCobbler, Web Browsers, Microsoft Windows, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Security

Software downloads 2008-05-08