IT
New security concerns with Google Reader
May 12, 2008 · Leave a Comment
A new feature that permits users to include notes in the Shared Items feed of Google Reader may be flawed. The highest item in the Shared Items feed indicates that users can change text not only in their own articles, but also in any article, at least according to Ryan S. on Duff’s Device. He is unable to locate the permalink in his Shared Items Feed, this in turn could result in unscrupulous people being able to change existing text, or possibly making new additions to that text. If that were to become widespread it... [Read the full story]
Networks
Vendor claims to nix URL-bypassing sites
April 20, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Proxy blocking company 8e6 has stated that its software can now curtail the proxy scripts that have lately swamped the Internet as a way of bypassing URL blocking systems. Such scripts give non-expert users a method to evade the conventional web URL filtering systems employed by government, libraries, universities and companies by initiating private web pages running applications that circumvent such filtering. Anybody using such sites as a ‘launchpad’ will not be picked up by many URL filters, permitting them to namelessly... [Read the full story]
Technology
PineApp Release App To Battle Zombie Networks
May 9, 2008 · Leave a Comment
According to a statement released by PineApp, the company has created a new application, titled ZombiCop, which will combat the increasing amount of spam delivered from zombie computers. This new method of spam has proved almost immune to the current anti-virus and anti-botnet software, however ISPs should now stand a better chance with the creation of ZombiCop. A zombie computer, or server, is one which has been infected by a Trojan-horse or a Virus and subsequently sends out spam. Currently, zombie networks produce 95%... [Read the full story]
Software
Zero-day flaw uncovered in Microsoft Works
April 20, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Chinese-language blogs are specifying a zero-day susceptibility in Microsoft Works, the company’s lower-end office productivity suite, according to security vendor McAfee. The vulnerability is inside an ActiveX control for the Works’ Image Server, wrote McAfee analyst Kevin Beets. A PC would need to visit a website engineered to exploit the flaw, Beets wrote. A zero-day flaw is a software vulnerability that has become public knowledge but for which no patch is available. It is predominantly dangerous given... [Read the full story]
Computers
Apple improves software download utility for Windows with version 2.1
April 28, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Apple has responded to critism of its “Software Update” tool for Windows. In version 2.1 users now see a split window with two separate lists for updates and new software. The complaint from many security (and other) sources had been that users of the old version often ended up with new software they had not intended to install. The confusion was caused by the new software being included in the list of “updates”, which users would install believing they were required. The concern was users upon finding they had... [Read the full story]
Business
New Data Risk Assessment Service From Pentura
May 12, 2008 · Leave a Comment
The first Risk Management Service Provider in the UK, Pentura, have announced the pending release of a new Data Risk Assessment Service. The service will give businesses the opportunity to evaluate the risk level for business critical data. Along with that, IT departments will be given the ability to constantly monitor data access behaviours surrounding their key systems, to ensure security is tailored to the businesses needs. Businesses are coming to realise quickly the possibility of internal and external leakage of... [Read the full story]
Malware
Malware targets Oympic emails
MessageLabs has reported that it has identified at least thirteen different Olympic themed attacks, using email to try and fool users into downloading trojans. With legitimate-sounding... [Read more]
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