Online games played from a personal computer without a solid anti-malware protection could put in danger the data stored on the hard-drive. Due to the fact that running a resource consuming game and an anti-virus in the same time is not always desired, Symantec Corp. made available starting from 25 November 2008 a new product designated to be used especially by gamers, Norton AntiVirus 2009 Gaming Edition, a fast security software with a small memory footprint and an unobtrusive behavior during games playing.

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Opera Mini, one of the most popular mobile web browser, having over 20 millions of downloads until november 2008 is available for testing as a new beta version: Opera Mini 4.2 Beta. It allows users to have a desktop like Web experience on the mobile phone. Practically, the user can perform the same actions as with a regular desktop based web browser, like uploading photos to a website, download or upload email attachments, offline browsing and more. (more…)

The WordPress blogging platform powers millions of websites over the Internet. Due to its level of usage, this PHP/MySQL platform is a probable target for various types of attacks. Recently, we have accidentally discovered in our blog posts a new dangerous viral activity based on an advertising script that exploits the security leaks of WordPress platform. This type of attack could be also present in the tens of other millions of online WordPress blogs. (more…)

The DNS (Domain Name Server) flaw discovered by the security researcher, Dan Kaminsky, Director of Penetration Testing ( IOActive Inc.) was solved for Mac OS X v10.4.11, Mac OS X Server v10.4.11, Mac OS X v10.5.4, Mac OS X Server v10.5.4. The Security Update 2008-005 provides the patches for the DNS flaw that allows to an attacker to generate a cache poisoning process. (more…)

In a few hours from the new release of Firefox 3.1 Alpha 1 a security flow was discovered by a team of researchers from Radware.

The research team of Radware Security Operations Center detected an issue that may determine the application Denial of Service in case of Firefox 3.1 Alpha 1. As a result of this process the user will loose any unsaved information. (more…)