Yahoo Aims To Redefine What It Means To Search At media event in San Francisco on Tuesday, Yahoo Search executives insisted that Internet users don’t want to search. “Nobody really wants to search,” declared Prabhakar Raghavan, head of Yahoo Labs and Yahoo Search Strategy. “People want to run their lives.” The stated theme for the [...]
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Adium 1.4 beta brings Twitter support and other goodies
Adium 1.4 beta brings Twitter support and other goodies Our favorite multi-service messaging client, Adium has issued two awesome updates. For OS X 10.4 Tiger users, or users who just want to use the most “stable” Adium release, the team has released Adium 1.3.4. This version boasts and updated core library and an updated Facebook [...]
activeCollab ‘re_route’ Parameter Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability
Vuln: activeCollab ‘re_route’ Parameter Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability activeCollab ‘re_route’ Parameter Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability URL: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35022
New Microsoft Office 2010 test build leaks
New Microsoft Office 2010 test build leaks Microsoft officials said last week that the company would release a new test build of its Office 2010 suite in July. But it looks like some testers got it at the end of this week and subsequently leaked it to the Web. The build that leaked is not [...]
40 Nigerians Arrested in US Over Alleged N1.7 Billion Credit Card Scam
40 Nigerians Arrested in US Over Alleged N1.7 Billion Credit Card Scam AS the authorities in New York City, United States engaged in what seems a mass arrest of Nigerians allegedly involved in a series of financial and identity crimes earlier this week, the Federal Government through the New York Consulate is protesting the decision [...]
IIS6.0 WebDav Remote Auth Bypass, (Fri, May 15th)
IIS6.0 WebDav Remote Auth Bypass, (Fri, May 15th) If you’re in the security business long enough, this one will sound extremely familiar: Apparently, adding certain Unicode characters to an URL makes it possible to bypass authentication in Microsoft IIS6 with WebDav and access or even upload files in folders which are supposed to be password [...]
Virgin Media helps UK Govt tackle illegal file sharing
Virgin Media helps UK Govt tackle illegal file sharing Virgin Media has joined forces with Channel 4 and BSkyB in a bid to help the government tackle internet piracy. Chief executives from the three companies, along with those from record labels and movie distribution firms, are advising communications minister Lord Stephen Carter and the Digital [...]
GPS Accuracy Could Start Dropping in 2010
GPS Accuracy Could Start Dropping in 2010 We’ve all become accustomed to using the Global Positioning System, or GPS, whether via our iPhones, car navigation devices, handheld GPS units, or even watch-based devices like the Garmin Forerunner series. The GPS system went into full operation in December of 1993, was declared a dual-use (military and [...]
Microsoft criticised by SANS for releasing vulnerability details
Microsoft criticised by SANS for releasing vulnerability details Microsoft’s advance notifications of patching are putting Mac users at risk. Speaking to Computer World, Swa Frantzen, an analyst at SANS Institute’s Internet Storm Center, criticised Microsoft for issuing patches that fix the Windows versions of PowerPoint while announcing that patches for the same flaws in the [...]
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4074 JS/Exploit.Pdfka.NJU (3), PDF/Exploit.Pidief.AUA, Win32/Agent.PKA, Win32/Agent.PKB (3), Win32/Delf.NSM (7), Win32/Delf.ODU, Win32/Delf.OFG, Win32/FlyStudio.NLB (3), Win32/FlyStudio.NLC (2), Win32/FlyStudio.NLD, Win32/Kryptik.LE, Win32/Kryptik.LR, Win32/Kryptik.MT, Win32/Kryptik.MU, Win32/Kryptik.MW, Win32/Kryptik.NB, Win32/Kryptik.ND, Win32/Kryptik.NG, Win32/Kryptik.NH, Win32/Kryptik.NM, Win32/Kryptik.NT, Win32/Kryptik.NV, Win32/Kryptik.NW, Win32/Kryptik.OC, Win32/Kryptik.OD, Win32/Kryptik.OQ, Win32/Kryptik.OR, Win32/Kryptik.OT, Win32/Kryptik.OU, Win32/Kryptik.OV, Win32/Kryptik.PA, Win32/LockScreen.F (2), Win32/Mypis.AH, Win32/Olmarik.HG, Win32/Pacex.Gen, Win32/PSW.OnLineGames.NMP, Win32/PSW.OnLineGames.NNU (2), Win32/PSW.OnLineGames.NUL, Win32/PSW.OnLineGames.NZD, Win32/PSW.OnLineGames.NZM, Win32/Randon.E, Win32/Rustock.NIH, Win32/Spy.VB.NEH, Win32/Spy.Zbot.NJ, Win32/Spy.Zbot.PG, Win32/Spy.Zbot.PT, Win32/TrojanClicker.VB.NFM, [...]
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4070 BAT/TrojanDownloader.Ftp.NDD, PDF/Exploit.Pidief.OMJ, Win32/Adware.Coolezweb, Win32/Adware.InternetAntivirus (3), Win32/Adware.PersonalAntivirus, Win32/Adware.VirusAlarmPro, Win32/Adware.WinPCDefender (2), Win32/Agent.NYA (2), Win32/Agent.WPI, Win32/AutoRun.Agent.NR, Win32/Delf.OHR, Win32/Delf.OHS, Win32/Delf.OIE (3), Win32/Injector.OI, Win32/IRCBot.AGP, Win32/Kryptik.OK, Win32/Kryptik.OL, Win32/Kryptik.OP, Win32/Olmarik.HG, Win32/PSW.OnLineGames.NSU, Win32/PSW.OnLineGames.NTZ, Win32/PSW.OnLineGames.NZD (2), Win32/PSW.OnLineGames.NZN, Win32/PSW.OnLineGames.NZS, Win32/PSW.OnLineGames.NZT (2), Win32/Ransom.I, Win32/Rootkit.Agent.NLH, Win32/Spy.Banker.AFFJ, Win32/Spy.Banker.QLG, Win32/Spy.Banker.QLP, Win32/Spy.Banker.QRT (3), Win32/Spy.Pophot.NAO (55), Win32/Spy.Zbot.JF, Win32/TrojanClicker.VB.NFM, Win32/TrojanDownloader.Bredolab.AA, Win32/TrojanDownloader.FakeAlert.UM, Win32/VB.OCY (3) URL: http://www.eset.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6021&Itemid=26
Mac precursor rough but workable
Chrome-on-Mac precursor rough but workable I spent the better part of Monday trying out the Mac OS X version of Chromium, the open-source project on which Google Chrome is based, and I’m favorably impressed. The software, available for download from the Chromium Web site, is incomplete and definitely buggy, as one would expect for a [...]
Apple delivers jumbo security update for Mac OS X
Apple delivers jumbo security update for Mac OS X Apple Inc. today patched 67 vulnerabilities in Mac OS X, including two bugs that researchers used in March to walk off with $5,000 each in a noted hacking contest. Tuesday’s update was the largest for Apple since March 2008. “For Apple, updates this size are now [...]
Most Malware Hosted On Trusted Sites
Most Malware Hosted On Trusted Sites As the folklore of the Web goes, one contracts a computer virus in places analogous to where one might contract certain types of real viruses: in “bad” neighborhoods one shouldn’t be in the first place. But times are changing, and though New York City cleaned up Times Square, cybercrooks [...]
Microsoft PowerPoint 4.2 Conversion Filter Heap Corruption Vulnerability
iDefense Security Advisory 05.12.09: Microsoft PowerPoint 4.2 Conversion Filter Heap Corruption Vulnerability Posted by iDefense Labs on May 12 iDefense Security Advisory 05.12.09 labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/ May 12, 2009 I. BACKGROUND Microsoft PowerPoint is an application used for constructing presentations, and comes with the Microsoft Office Suite. For more information, see the vendor’s site found at… URL: [...]
