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Microsoft issued an advisory this week on the
TrueType font-parsing vulnerability. The flaw affects every supported version of Windows including Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008. The vulnerability was found to spread the Duqu malware, which is derived from the infamous Stuxnet worm. Microsoft say that an attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run arbitrary code in kernel mode. Access to kernel mode means an attacker could install programs, view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. Microsoft will be patching this Windows 7 vulnerability on
The major UK banks and card schemes are a list of 26 companies that are working with the UK government on the creation of a new personal identity system for consumers transacting online. The '
Midata' initiative is an online replacement of the abandoned UK national identity card scheme. The Midata concept plans to release all sorts of data held by private business back to consumers. Companies can make this data available in which they can help consumers to manage their data (will consumers use this? probably not) and build a useful
Windows Task Scheduler (AT.exe) is well known to us all, but the Stuxnet worm has introduced the Zlob variants and click-fraud Trojan Bamital which researchers have found are continuing to make use of the Windows Task Scheduler.
The Android 4.0 operating system, otherwise known as “Ice Cream Sandwich”, has been in the security news recently. Android 4.0 is possibly Google’s most secure operating system, to date, so to hear that Android 4.0 has added
Google is about to give Googlers the control over the ads that you see – what Google calls ‘ads personalization’. This is great news indeed. For those of you who wonder why only certain ads appear when
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Thursday, 27 Oct, 2011
Facebook has recently released some interesting data from it's 'The Facebook Immunity System (FIS)'. According to FIS it processes and checks 650,000 actions every second (it can handle 25 billion actions every day - amazing) to maintain
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Thursday, 27 Oct, 2011
Sixty popular Swedish websites have been identified as potential targets in a massive password hacking incident in Sweden. A leading Swedish Democrat had his Twitter account hacked. The hacker(s) preceded to tweet email addresses and MD5 hashes
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Thursday, 27 Oct, 2011
Google's bug bounties is certainly working. Security researchers have identified over 27 flaws in Google Chrome - one researcher Sergey Glazunov found a number of flaws earning him a respectable $12.174 for five high impact flaws in
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Thursday, 27 Oct, 2011
Emma Watson Adobe Flash malware in circulation. The latest of these videos purportedly features popular English actress Emma Watson and users from various websites are redirected to a very expertly made fake YouTube pages where the video
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Thursday, 20 Oct, 2011
A new variant of a nasty Apple Mac Trojan has been found in the wild. Picking up where its predecessor left off, the tweaked Trojan can disable the anti-virus software built into recent versions of Apple's Mac
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Thursday, 20 Oct, 2011
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Thursday, 20 Oct, 2011
It’s National Identity Fraud Prevention Week this week in the UK. As part of Julian's identity fraud awareness push he'd like just go over some old ground. Fellowes a paper-shredding supplier commissioned a report which highlighted that
