Archive for the ‘Web Security’ Category
Tuesday, October 13th, 2009
Conficker is a dangerous worm that allows attackers to remotely control your computer. The latest Windows security updates keep Conficker away, but if your computer was already infected before performing Windows update process, you will not be able to access Microsoft or security websites to remove the worm. Besides these symptoms, your computer will also work slow, having a higher number of running processes at startup than it normally should. In order to completely remove Conficker worm from Windows, we have successfully tested a simple method that uses free antivirus software and does not require you to reinstall or update Windows. (more…)
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Saturday, October 10th, 2009
In 2008, CheckPoint Software Technologies Ltd. has offered an unlimited number of free 1 year licenses for its award winning software Zone Alarm Pro suite. Now, those of you who missed this opportunity, still have a chance to free download the commercial version of ZoneAlarm Pro Firewall 2010, with a free license key on Tuesday, October 13, 2009, because on that day, only for 24 hours, CheckPoint will freely give away this software with a legitimate license. (more…)
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Friday, September 25th, 2009
It is well known the fact that Internet Explorer browser rendering speed is quite low in case of web applications and pages which uses your system resources intensively. Google has came with a simple solution to boost the Internet Explorer performance and the level of compatibility with modern web based applications: Google Chrome Frame, a new free plug-in that will introduce Google Chrome’s web technologies and a faster JavaScript rendering engine into Internet Explorer. (more…)
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Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
Portable web browsers have many advantages when you are using several computers: just plug-in the USB drive and you are ready to go with all settings and bookmarks in place, without the need to synchronize data or perform the software installation. Over the Internet there are already published the portable versions of popular web browsers, like Firefox or Opera for example. (more…)
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Friday, July 31st, 2009
As any other applications, the software platforms which power the mobile devices like iPhone, Android and Windows Mobile are vulnerable to viruses. By using a fuzzing based test method, the security experts Charlie Miller and Collin Mulliner have injected SMS messages locally in an iPhone, without the need of a mobile operator network and have demonstrated how a virus can be enabled on an iPhone device in the absence of phone user participation, just by receiving a SMS. (more…)
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Monday, July 27th, 2009
You may know, that the majority of the Internet connected computers are equipped with Adobe Flash Player. Due to the recently discovered critical security vulnerabilities of Flash Player (9.0.159.0 and 10.0.22.87) for Windows, Mac and Linux, as well as of authplay.dll component included in the Adobe Reader and Acrobat software, you are strongly advised to disable the support for Flash files rendering in web browsers and other software capable to manage Flash applications. Practically, the security vulnerability affects Flash in essence, and due to the fact that there are already served tons of Flash files in ads, games and various software applications, your computer could be one of the millions potential targets for attackers. (more…)
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Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
It is hard to believe how easy you can become popular in an absolutely off-topic area of a forum, where only just truly off topic conversations are allowed. In an amazing way, the surprise of becoming popular over night could come from spam killers, “enthusiast” people who redefine the meaning of the word spam, by associating it with real useful information. Therefore, forums spam killers, in their attempt to eliminate spam posts from the off-topic areas are capable to digg into your past and find all possible web based information about you, such as affiliation with websites or social networks accounts. Then, spam killers proudly publish relevant web information about the forum user, with links and other various details, increasing its popularity (for free).
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Monday, July 20th, 2009
It could be hard to believe, but after the recent release of Firefox 3.5.1 update, a new security flaw that allows remote code execution through JavaScript code was discovered. A proof of concept for the exploit code was also made public and it works, because Mozilla Firefox browser is still vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow. The attacker could generate the buffer overflow by sending long Unicode strings to the document.write method and in this way is possible the remote code execution to compromise an operating system or a DOS (Denial Of Service) attack.
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Monday, July 20th, 2009
One year ago, in the article “A New Powerful Virus Could Affect Millions of WordPress Blogs“, there was underlined the necessity of performing updates of WordPress sites, especially when critical security issues are fixed in the current software release. The latest version (2.8.2) of the popular blogging platform WordPress was just launched and is ready for free download. WordPress 2.8.2 patches an XSS security vulnerability: due to the fact that the author’s comment URLs were not fully sanitized in version 2.8.1, an attacker could used this security leak in order to redirect you from the administration area to another website.
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Wednesday, July 15th, 2009
As reported by the Milw0rm website, Firefox 3.5 has one big security vulnerability (entitled Firefox 3.5 Heap Spray Vulnerabilty) which exists in Tracemonkey, the new JavaScript rendering engine developed by Mozilla. The instructions for hackers regarding how to use the Firefox 3.5 security flaw can be found already online, therefore an attacker is able to take total control of any computer running Firefox 3.5 through remote code execution techniques, because a patch is not yet available. Mozilla has confirmed the existence of the Firefox browser vulnerability in the way in which JavaScript is handled by Tracemonkey engine.
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Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
AVG Anti Virus provides you a reliable protection in real time against all possible forms of viruses, spyware, adware, worms and trojans, as well as hidden threats (rootkits), identity-theft and malicious websites. It has a low footprint on system resources, therefore you will be able to perform the usual tasks in an optimal manner. There are situations when you need to remove the AVG Anti Virus software, but the automatic uninstaller is not capable to clean up all files and registry entries corresponding to the application.
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Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
On July 06, 2009, Microsoft has made public the existence of a severe security flaw in Internet Explorer, caused by a vulnerability discovered in Microsoft Video ActiveX Control. As a consequence, if any attacker succeeds in exploiting this security leak of Internet Explorer browser, then the user computer could be remotely controlled by the attacker, with the same access rights over the machine resources and data, as the ones corresponding to the owner.
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Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
If you frequently experience network access problems, as well as connection speed related issues, then your computer could be connected to the Internet through a rogue DHCP server. This type of network device could also represent a source of network attacks, because it is capable to sniff your traffic and control user privacy. Rogue DHCP servers can be spotted with the help of intrusion detection software, like the new free portable application (RogueChecker) provided by Microsoft Windows DHCP Team.
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