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Saturday, 17 December 2005 |
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A security researcher in Israel has found a way to steal information from unwitting users of Google's desktop search tool by exploiting an unpatched flaw in Microsoft's ubiquitous Internet Explorer. There is a bug in the way the Web browser processes CSS rules, Matan Gillon wrote in a description of his hack posted on Wednesday.
CSS, or Cascading Style Sheets, is a method for setting common styles across multiple Web pages. The Web design technique is widely used on many sites across the Internet. The proof-of-concept method is an example of how security flaws in software can offer all kinds of access to programs on vulnerable PCs, including to Google Desktop.
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Saturday, 17 December 2005 |
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AT&T on Wednesday launched a 24-hour Internet security Webcast program aimed at delivering security alerts and daily dispatches to corporate customers.
The company's Internet Security News Network (ISNN) is designed to offer news updates twice a day and interviews with security experts. It also is intended to leverage AT&T's year-old managed security services and the AT&T Internet Protect subscriber service.
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Monday, 12 December 2005 |
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The chipmaker is working on hardware-based security protection that will tell people when a rootkit is being downloaded to their PC, according to a report in ITObserver. The plan is to put a small chip on the motherboard to do this, Intel said at a press and analyst event in Folsom, Calif., on Thursday. |
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Monday, 12 December 2005 |
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Experts from anti-virus division Microsoft speak, that 20 % of all nocuous software deleted from operational system Windows XP SP2, it is on a share rootkits.
One of in the lead positions in the list of nocuous programs of all colors on a regular basis deleted by free-of-charge anti-virus utility Windows worm zapping, borrows rootkit FU. It is found out in various versions of program Rbot - systems of detour of protection IRC used for illegal infection of systems with Windows by espionage programs.
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Sunday, 11 December 2005 |
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Finnish security firm F-Secure said on Thursday that it had cracked the Sober worm, and could now warn of what URLs it would check to update itself.
The company claims it had cracked the code back in May 2005, but chose to stay silent, only alerting German authorities where the free hosting servers that host the update files exist.
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Thursday, 01 December 2005 |
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Google on Wednesday silently added a new feature to its Gmail service: virus scanning. The company will now check all incoming and outgoing e-mail attachments to keep users' inboxes safe. By scanning outbound attachments, Google can also keep viruses from proliferating by way of Gmail.
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Thursday, 01 December 2005 |
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Each fourteenth electronic letter for today contains in the world on a copy of a new variant of a worm from family Sober, anti-virus company Sophos approves.
Though in the whole 2005 seem by way of virus activity extremely quiet, any is valid epidemics, upon the termination dawn virus writers have decided "to celebrate": under the electronic correspondence virus Sober-Z "skips". Last week on it 60 % of messages on the infections registered Sophos were infected. Now those already 85 %.
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Tuesday, 29 November 2005 |
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Microsoft on Tuesday acknowledged the existence of exploit code that could crash vulnerable Windows computers through a flaw in image file handling. The company had provided a patch for the problem as part of its November Patch Tuesday security update.
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Monday, 28 November 2005 |
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W32/Mytob-FY is a mass-mailing worm and backdoor Trojan that can be controlled through the Internet Relay Chat (IRC) network.
W32/Mytob-FY runs continuously in the background, providing a backdoor server which allows a remote intruder to gain access and control over the computer via IRC channels. |
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Monday, 28 November 2005 |
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The latest Sober worm, first spotted over the weekend, has generated the vast majority of virus-laden e-mail traffic in the past 24 hours and could cause problems for corporate e-mail gateways, security companies said. |
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