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Researchers Reveal ‘clickjacking’ Vulnerabilities in Browsers

The security researchers who two weeks ago warned of new “clickjacking” vulnerabilities in browsers, Web sites and popular plug-ins, revealed a dozen variants of the bug Tuesday.
And that’s just for starters, said Robert Hansen, founder and CEO of SecTheory LLC. “The list doesn’t cover all the other kinds of plug-ins that are vulnerable, or all […]

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ASUSTek Reports New Eee Box Machines Come Pre-Loaded With Virus Infection

Asustek Computer’s Japanese arm has alerted owners of its new Eee Box low-cost desktop PC that the machine shipped with a virus.
The D drive of the Eee Box B202, which launched in Japan last week, contains a virus file named “recycled.exe,” Asustek said in a statement. When the drive is opened, the virus begins copying […]

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5 Password Utilities That Will Make Your Life Simpler

Password managers are a huge help in dealing with our exponentially growing numbers of accounts. But stand-alone apps introduce a new problem: If you aren’t sitting at the PC with the software installed, you can’t get to your credentials. Luckily, you have alternatives. These five password tools are all accessible either from a portable device […]

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Califorina Hacker Extorts Luxury Car Maker Maserati

A resident of Solana Beach, Calif., has been charged with stealing customer data from luxury car seller Maserati North America Inc. and then trying to extort money from the company by threatening to publicly disclose the details of the system intrusion.
Bruce Mengler was arraigned Monday on five charges, including extortion and illegally […]

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Intrusion-Prevention Systems Still Not Used Full Throttle

Network-based intrusion-prevention systems are in-line devices intended to detect and block a wide variety of attacks, but the equipment still is often used more like an intrusion-detection system to passively monitor traffic, new research shows.
Infonetics Research interviewed 169 security professionals responsible for managing IPS in their organizations to find out whether the full functionality of […]

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San Francisco Hunts For Mystery Device On City Network

With costs related to a rogue network administrator’s hijacking of the city’s network now estimated at $1 million, city officials say they are searching for a mysterious networking device hidden somewhere on the network.
The device, referred to as a “terminal server” in court documents, appears to be a router that was installed to provide remote […]

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China Netcom Falls Prey To DNS cache Poisoning

One of China’s largest ISPs (Internet service providers) has fallen victim to a dangerous vulnerability in the Internet’s addressing system, according to security vendor Websense.
The flaw, which has been described as one of the most serious ones to ever affect the Internet, can cause Web surfers to be redirected to fraudulent Web sites even if […]

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Russian Hacker ‘Militia’ Mobilizes to Attack Georgia

Russian hacker ‘militia’ mobilizes to attack Georgia
By Gregg Keizer , Computerworld , 08/12/2008
“Security researchers Tuesday disputed claims that a well-known Russian hacker hosting network is responsible for cyberattacks against sites belonging to Georgia, the former Soviet republic that has been battling Russian military forces since Friday.
Rather than blame the notorious Russian Business Network (RBN) — […]

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How Secure Is Your Companies Network?

SAN FRANCISCO — “A disgruntled city computer engineer has virtually commandeered San Francisco’s new multimillion-dollar computer network, altering it to deny access to top administrators even as he sits in jail on $5 million bail, authorities said Monday.
Terry Childs, a 43-year-old computer network administrator who lives in Pittsburg, has been charged with four counts of […]

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Google Protocol Buffers: Open Source Data Interchange Format

“Today we have something special for all you coders: we’re releasing one of our most widely-used internal development tools. We call it “Protocol Buffers.” It’s the way we encode almost any sort of structured information which needs to be passed across the network or stored on disk. We thought Protocol Buffers might be useful to […]

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