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It is the shared responsibility of all computer users to take steps to protect their portion of cyberspace and stay safe online . This fall marks the fifth annual National Cyber Security Awareness Month. The Department of Homeland Security's (DHS...
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Mozilla Corp. will use a several-week delay it recently added to the Firefox 3 .1 schedule to build a private browsing mode and beef up the browser's address bar, the company said today. Three weeks ago, the company said it would insert four to five...
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Opera Software has released Opera version 9.60 to address two vulnerabilities. The first vulnerability is due to improper validation of URLs. Exploitation of this vulnerability may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial-of-service...
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A popular free security tool for the Firefox browser has been upgraded to block one of the most dangerous and troubling security problems facing the Web today. NoScript is a small application that integrates into Firefox. It blocks scripts in programming...
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Spammers prefer Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. , over his rival, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. , by landslide-like numbers, a security researcher said today. According to Secure Computing Corp. , spammers were nearly seven times more likely to slap Obama's...
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After upgrading to Firefox 3.0.2, you may find that you can no longer save new passwords and that previously saved passwords are not automatically filled in when visiting certain web sites. This is a recently discovered issue with Firefox 3.0.2. The passwords...
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Apple has released updates for Java for Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5 to address multiple vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code. US-CERT encourages users to review Apple Article HT3178 and HT3179 and apply any...
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What’s New in Firefox 3.0.2 Firefox 3.0.2 contains the following updates: Fixed several security issues . Fixed several stability issues. Official releases for Sinhala and Slovene are now available. Beta releases for Bengali, Galician, Hindi, Icelandic...
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On Wednesday, researchers announced a flaw in how the Google Chrome browser behaves with undefined handlers. An exploit provided as a demonstration crashes the new browser. In an article on the Securiteam site , Rishi Narang from Evilfingers says a crash...
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Opera Software ASA today patched seven vulnerabilities in its flagship Opera browser, but it declined to provide information about one of the bugs. The Oslo-based browser developer hinted that other programs, not yet unpatched, were also affected by the...
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Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC), today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire PC Tools , a global provider of innovative software products designed to protect the privacy and security of Windows® computer users. The financial terms...
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Security researcher David Maynor hopes that his credit-card data has been stolen for the last time. Tired of insecure sites losing his data, the chief technology officer at Errata Security, said the company plans to release a toolbar for major browsers...
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Open-source software maker Mozilla announced this week that the company will require developers to undergo training in secure programming and allow the security community to review its assessments of threats to the Firefox browser. The two initiatives...
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Apple has released Security Update 2008-005 to address multiple vulnerabilities that affect a number of applications. These vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to conduct DNS cache poisoning attacks, execute arbitrary code, cause a denial-of-service...
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Known Vulnerabilities Fixed in Firefox 2.0.0.15: MFSA 2008-33 Crash and remote code execution in block reflow MFSA 2008-32 Remote site run as local file via Windows URL shortcut MFSA 2008-31 Peer-trusted certs can use alt names to spoof MFSA 2008-30 File...
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Apple plugged 25 security holes in components of its Mac OS X operating system on Monday, closing remote execution vulnerabilities in its Safari Web browser and the Ruby Web programming language. The software patch -- the fourth this year for Apple's...
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The number of signatures required to detect malicious code skyrocketed in the first half of 2008, increasing by 80 percent since the end of 2007, according to data released by antivirus firm F-Secure on Tuesday. The data -- part of the F-Secure's...
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Security-conscious users will have a choice to make in the next week. Software maker Opera released the latest version of its browser, Opera 9.5, on Thursday, and rival Mozilla announced it would release a major update of its Firefox browser on June 17...
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Software maker Opera announced on Friday that its browser of the same name will incorporate anti-malware features starting with the next version. The feature -- to be added in the next version of the browser, Opera 9.5 -- will prevent users from downloading...
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The Chinese territory of Hong Kong and the People's Republic of China are home to the largest fraction of malicious Web sites, according to a report published by antivirus company McAfee on Wednesday. In its report, Mapping the Mal Web Revisited ...
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