Aug 07
Thursday, August 7th, 2008
LAS VEGAS, NEV. — Roughly 85 percent of Fortune 500 companies have patched their networks to fix a security flaw that lets cyber criminals redirect visitors to counterfeit or malicious Web sites, but Internet users still remain at grave risk due to the large number of infrastructure providers that have not yet addressed the issue, a prominent security researcher warned today. The data comes from a talk presented here at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas by Dan Kaminsky, the Seattle based IOActive researcher who discovered a fairly trivial way that bad guys could corrupt records found in the domain name system (DNS) and fill them with inaccurate information. On July 8, Microsoft, Cisco, Sun Microsystems and dozens of other Internet companies shipped software updates to fix this fundamental design in DNS, the communications standard that acts as a kind of phone book for the Internet, translating […]
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Aug 07
Thursday, August 7th, 2008
Friendly fire from update
McAfee has apologised after an anti-virus update released on Monday night incorrectly identified a plug-in for Microsoft Office Live Meeting as a Trojan.…
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Aug 06
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
More transparency, better protection
Microsoft has announced plans to share additional details about security vulnerabilities in its products in an attempt to prevent attackers from exploiting them before patches are released to its customers.…
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Aug 01
Friday, August 1st, 2008
Apple released updates to fix at least 17 different security holes in its OS X operating system and other software late Thursday, including a patch for the domain name system (DNS) vulnerability that many other affected vendors addressed nearly three weeks ago. Security Update 2008-005 patches a serious flaw in the DNS that could allow hackers to hijack users’ Internet connections or silently redirect them to counterfeit Web sites. Cisco, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems and a host of Linux projects pushed out a coordinated fix for the flaw on July 8, when it was first disclosed, and Apple immediately took heat for not releasing its patch then as well. My guess is that Apple planned all along to release its patch this week or early next. Dan Kaminsky, the researcher who discovered the DNS flaw and helped coordinate the release of the patches to fix it, tried to withhold details […]
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Aug 01
Friday, August 1st, 2008
‘Paris Hilton Tosses Dwarf On The Street’
Miscreants have created a pair of worms targeting MySpace and Facebook users. Two variants of a new worm - dubbed Koobface - are the first to use social engineering sites to press-gang infected machines into botnets, warns net security firm Kaspersky Lab.…
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