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Thursday, 10 Nov, 2011
ISBN: 978-1439860694
RRP: $69.95
The first time that I quickly browsed through this book, I thought that maybe I was reading this in a slightly different language as there were new acronyms and different ways of thinking on how to process information for me to learn
By the time I was finished my head was spinning and overloaded with so much information. But it did intrigue me to want to read it a second time in more detail. This time I was prepared as I had looked up reference points for more detailed information on some of the subject matter. I am
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 '
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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Monday, 31 Oct, 2011
Latest News From IT Security World
By Schuyler Dorsey, eLearnSecurity i ID Theft Protect
As usual specialists from companies eLearn Security and ID Theft protect will share with us latest news from IT
security world. Read it to up-date yourself.
Secure Log Server With
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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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Monday, 24 Oct, 2011
Cracking Java Applications Using AOP Exploits (part 2)
By Daniel Drozdzewski
AOP has been used in the domain of Software Security before. Its use was mainly for validation, auditing and authorization purposes, which in turn improve software security as a whole.
