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Blackberry is a hugely implemented secure handheld based email client inside the RIM network. It can retrieve emails for you and notify you when you have new emails straight from your email server. There’s a Denial of Service potential in one of their devices, the … “Blackberry 8100 DoS”
Read MoreMicrosoft officially admits that the WGA program will “contact home” even if the user clicks on cancel. Nonetheless, the software giants claim, no private information is transmitted through this, further claiming, this is kind of a survey done for WGA user experience. There’s been WGAs … “Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) Contacts Home (even if you click cancel)”
Read MoreApple QuickTime Player is reported prone to remote heap overflow vulnerability (exploitable via remotely originated content). Only Windows users are currently affected. Please update to latest at http://www.apple.com/quicktime/win.html Full advisory can be found at: http://www.piotrbania.com/all/adv/quicktime-heap-adv-7.1.txt
Read MoreProblem processing packed files led to infinite loop. Details of a flaw in UPX processing in the Kaspersky anti-virus engine have been made available, a month after the release of a patch to fix the problem. The vulnerability, which was reported by iDefense, could be … “Kaspersky UPX vulnerability revealed”
Read MoreI guess, in time, you would need to run your Antivirus on hardware too to check for malicious code. I guess it would be an expensive exploit, nonetheless it could be exploiting hardware and storing itself in your hardware’s firmware. A good practice from now … “PC Hardware Can Be A Malicious Rootkit”
Read MoreSource: http://www.virusbtn.com/news/virus_news/2007/03_01.xml?rssSkype messages, blogs, forum entries and webmails lead to more malware variants. Two major gangs of malware distributors have turned to new vectors for spreading their wares this week. While the makers of W32/Stration (aka Warezov) have been spamming Skype messages leading to copies … “Skype Users Take Note! (Stration & Storm’s gonna get ya..)”
Read MoreResearches have found multiple bugs (which are already discovered) and lots more unknown bugs on the famous scripting language, PHP which stands for Personal Home Page. This famous scripting language is used widely in systems from security companies to large corporations, to embedded devices (for … “Month of PHP bugs (PHP language security issues)”
Read MoreWe’ve heard of phising, and many are familiar with this term, now what is Pharming and how does it affect you and i? What is pharming?In simplest term, pharming is the process of attacking a person’s computer so that the computer “goes” to a website … “Pharming and Drive By Pharming”
Read MoreIf you use and run Symantec Antivirus 2006 and Symantec Internet Security 2006, there’s a problem with a control that could lead to remote control of your computer. Please update your software. Synopsis: Symantec has released details of a potential security threat in its 2006 … “Symantec Antivirus 2006 has critical vulnerability”
Read MoreEarlier article to this, we talked about new exploitations, and here, another potentially large exploit if successful. Imagine, if MSN messenger (installed and used by millions) carry dangerous attack routines/payloads and misguiding/fake information within its advertisement. Sigh. Note: The attack can be automated and a … “MSN Messenger Displays Fake Spyware AD (and find out how remove MSN / Live Messenger ADS, etc too)”
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