Microsoft has now updated Flash on Windows 8 to protect IE10 users from attacks that may have started months ago. More than a week before, Microsoft had backed away from an earlier position that held it would not patch Flash until late ...
Tags: Bug, flash, highlightedpost, Microsoft, Patches, Windows 8
IDG News Service-The Romanian domain names of Google,Yahoo,Microsoft,Kaspersky Lab and other companies were hijacked on Wednesday and were redirected to a hacked server in the Netherlands. The hijacking occurred at the DNS(Domain Name ...
Tags: Attackers hijack, hacked server, Netherlands, security breach
Facebook started encrypting the connections of its North American users by default last week as part of a plan to roll out always-on HTTPS(Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure)to its entire global user base. For the past several ...
Tags: Facebook, HTTPS, security benefits, account hijacking attacks
Cyber criminals targeted users of Skype,Facebook and Windows using multiple Blackhole exploits in October,according to the latest threat report from security firm GFI Software. Researchers uncovered a large number of Blackhole exploits ...
Tags: Cyber criminals, Facebook, Windows users, chameleon of internet threats
Skype has disabled the account password reset option on its website following reports that the feature can be abused to hijack Skype accounts if the attackers know the email addresses associated with them. Instructions on how to exploit ...
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Microsoft today patched 19 vulnerabilities in Windows,Internet Explorer 9(IE9),Excel and the.Net development framework,including four flaws in the just-released Windows 8 and its tablet spin-off Windows RT. Of Tuesday's six security ...
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IDG News Service-Security researcher Zoltan Balazs has developed a remote-controlled piece of malware that functions as a browser extension and is capable of modifying Web pages,downloading and executing files,hijacking accounts,bypassing ...
Tags: malware, browser extension, remote-controlled, Balazs
Two security researchers claim to have developed a new attack that can decrypt session cookies from HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure) connections. Websites use session cookies to remember authenticated users. If an attacker gains ...
Tags: Data Center, HTTPS, computer security, security research