Security Fix: July 17, 2005 - July 23, 2005
Flaw in Winamp Media Player Fixed
Nullsoft (Ã la AOL) has released an update for its Winamp media player to fix a dangerous security hole that could give attackers a way into your PC. According to Danish security firm Secunia and the Croatian company that uncovered...
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July 23, 2005; 10:52 AM ET |
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Scary Advice for the Vegas Trip
I thought I was being sufficiently paranoid as I went about planning my trip out to Las Vegas next week for the back-to-back Black Hat and DefCon hacker conferences, but now I'm just plain spooked. Ever since I started telling...
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Brian Krebs
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July 22, 2005; 5:05 PM ET |
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Security Fix Is Heading to Vegas
I'll be heading into the soul-crushing heat of Las Vegas for six days next week to cover Black Hat and Defcon, two of the largest hacker conventions in the country. I'm planning to blog like a madman at the conferences,...
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July 21, 2005; 1:55 PM ET |
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Mozilla Issues Another Update
Mozilla has issued another update to its Firefox Web browser to correct "stability" problems in version 1.0.5, as I discussed in yesterday's blog post about this. Firefox users can download the update manually from Mozilla's site. This update does not...
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Brian Krebs
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July 20, 2005; 12:46 PM ET |
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More Firefox Updates on the Way
Mozilla is getting ready to release yet another version of its Firefox Web browser, just days after it issued a new version to correct several security flaws in the program. According to an article at Mozillazine, the most recent release,...
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July 19, 2005; 11:43 AM ET |
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Phlagrant Marketing
It's happened again: An Internet security company seeking a little free PR has coined yet another ominous-sounding word beginning with the letters "ph" to describe an online threat. The word of the day is "Phlooding." Granted, "phlooding" -- a term...
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July 18, 2005; 4:02 PM ET |
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