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Firefox fixes two

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:30:09 +0100

The Mozilla Foundation have released today a new Firefox 3.0.x and 2.0.0.xx releases which addresses two critical security vulnerabilities.

You guessed it Patch Tuesday

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:13:04 +0100

Well it is still patch Tuesday in Redmond and Microsoft have been busy releasing four security fixes, one we've already covered as it seems to affect most anyone that has a DNS server implementation. The others are all Microsoft's fault.

Multiple Vendor DNS vulnerability rears it’s ugly head

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:50:11 +0100

Today various vendors released updates to address several DNS implementation flaws. It seems that the implementation issues could allow an attacker to perform DNS Cache poisoning against affected DNS implementations.

Apple Fixes Multiple Vulnerabilities in Safari and OS X

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:29:27 +0100

Apple yesterday released two security bulletins containing updates to address multiple vulnerabilities affecting Safari and Mac OS X.

Pinch Authors Pinched

Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:38:31 +0000

Two Russians have been arrested in connection with creating and distributing the Pinch Trojan family, according to Nikolay Patrushev, head of the Russian FSB (Federal Security Agency) the two men had been identified are awaiting trial.

Microsoft Christmas Presents to Sys Admins

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 22:32:11 +0000

Well it is that time of the month again, the goose is getting fat and Microsoft have released this months slew of patches. This month we have three critical patches and four important rated patches.

Adware goes old school viral

Sun, 09 Dec 2007 13:09:04 +0000

It seems that one of the adware authors has been taking some lessons from the old school virus writers on how make it extra hard to get rid of their crap and to ensure that their adware always gets run on system startup.

Autonomy release the legal attack dogs against Secunia

Thu, 06 Dec 2007 21:01:07 +0000

It seems that in these days where disclosure of Security vulnerabilities is the norm, and most vendors actually have embraced the concept that keeping these quiet actually will harm their business more, the people at Autonomy have been living under a rock and don’t want anyone to know their products contain security problems.

New Firefox release addresses jar XSS Vulnerability

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:54:03 +0000

The guys over at Mozilla Foundation have pushed out a new release of Firefox, the new 2.0.0.10 release addresses three security issues within the Firefox browser.

Electronic Jihad did you notice it?

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 12:13:49 +0000

Well for the last couple of weeks we’ve have lots of warnings of pending Electronic Jihad by various sources in Islamic Fundamentalist Computer Underground. It was all set to happen on November 11th to kick off mass Denial of Service of ‘Christian West’ targets.