Security Fix Archive: Safety Tips
Poking at Google's new privacy Dashboard
Google this week unveiled a new feature called Dashboard, intended to give users a way to view -- and in modest ways limit -- the breadth of information the search giant collects about our online lives. To check out Dashboard,...
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November 6, 2009; 1:40 PM ET |
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| Tags: dashboard, google, privacy
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Updates for Adobe's Shockwave, Sun's Java
Sun Microsystems has issued an update to its Java software that fixes at least one security vulnerability. Separately, Adobe is pushing out a patch to plug four security holes in its Shockwave Player. The Sun patch brings Java 6 to...
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Brian Krebs
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November 5, 2009; 10:54 PM ET |
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| Tags: adobe shockwave, java, sun
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Spike in Social Media Malware, Phishing Attacks
E-mail scams targeting users of social media sites like Twitter and Facebook are blurring the lines between traditional phishing attacks and those designed to plant password-stealing malicious software on the victim's PC. For the past week, scammers have been blasting...
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Brian Krebs
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November 4, 2009; 12:30 PM ET |
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| Tags: phishing, phishme, zeus
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What Windows Autorun Has Wrought
A new report by Microsoft shows that the two most prevalent threats to Windows PCs in the first half of 2009 were malicious programs that have been aided mightily in their spread by a decision by Microsoft to allow the...
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Brian Krebs
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November 2, 2009; 11:55 AM ET |
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DHS: PhoneSnoop app bugs BlackBerrys
The Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) is warning BlackBerry users about a spyware program that allows attackers to turn a target's handset into a microphone that can be accessed remotely. PhoneSnoop is a free, remote...
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Brian Krebs
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October 29, 2009; 12:45 PM ET |
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| Tags: flexispy, mobile spy, phonesnoop, us-cert
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Nastygram: Spoofed FDIC bank fail e-mail
Spam e-mails mimicking the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and warning of additional bank failures are instead the latest bid by cyber crooks to empty your bank account, security experts warn. The messages arrive with subjects such as "FDIC has...
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Brian Krebs
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October 28, 2009; 11:40 AM ET |
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