Security Fix: November 20, 2005 - November 26, 2005
Brokerage Hack Endangers Investors
St. Louis-based Scottrade, one of the nation's largest private online stock brokerage houses, has alerted its customers that a hacker break-in may have compromised the security of an untold number of accounts. The company did not disclose how many of...
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November 26, 2005; 7:05 PM ET |
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Symantec to Ditch Sygate Firewall
Another free Windows firewall bites the dust. Symantec Corp. has announced rather abruptly that as of next week it will no longer support or offer its Sygate line of firewall products. The move comes little more than three months after...
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November 25, 2005; 10:15 PM ET |
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Fake CIA, FBI E-Mails Power Sober Worm
Several new versions of the "Sober" e-mail worm have been mass-spammed to millions of e-mail boxes of the last 72 hours, posing as messages from the FBI and the CIA warning recipients that their Internet address has been implicated in...
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November 23, 2005; 10:22 AM ET |
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Incomplete Advice From Uncle Sam
In a blog entry earlier today, I pointed out that the Department of Homeland Security -- in its partnership with the Carnegie Mellon University Computer Emergency Readiness Team, a DHS-run outfit now known as US-CERT -- is once again unwilling...
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November 22, 2005; 5:15 PM ET |
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Check Your Exposure to Microsoft Flaw
There has been quite a bit of concern in the past 48 hours over the release of an exploit for a newly discovered critical security hole in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser that could let nasty Web sites seize control over...
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November 22, 2005; 10:30 AM ET |
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Check Your Exposure to Microsoft Flaw
There has been quite a bit of concern in the past 48 hours over the release of an exploit for a newly discovered critical security hole in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser that could let nasty Web sites seize control over...
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November 22, 2005; 10:30 AM ET |
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EFF, Texas Attorney General Sue Sony
Greg Abbott, the attorney general for Texas, today filed a lawsuit against Sony BMG Music Entertainment, alleging that its controversial (and now recalled) "XCP" anti-piracy software violates the state's anti-spyware and consumer protection laws. "Sony has engaged in a technological...
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November 21, 2005; 12:34 PM ET |
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Exploit for Unpatched IE Flaw Released
Researchers have released computer code demonstrating how to exploit a previously unknown security hole in Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser to take over Windows computers. I'm still wading through the code to figure out exactly what this bugger does, but...
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November 21, 2005; 10:17 AM ET |
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