Day: October 27, 2006

Mozilla rebuts Firefox 2 bug reports | CNET News.com

Mozilla rebuts Firefox 2 bug reports | CNET News.com For more info click on above link A day after shipping Firefox 2, Mozilla on Wednesday largely rebutted two claims of security flaws in the latest version of the Web browser. Bug hunters appear to be in a race to uncover new security flaws in both Firefox 2 and Internet Explorer 7, which Microsoft released last week. Word of what appears to be the first publicly disclosed IE 7 vulnerability came Wednesday.

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Spoofing bug found in IE 7 – CNET News.com

Spoofing bug found in IE 7 | CNET News.com For more info click on above link Security experts have found a weakness in Internet Explorer 7 that could help crooks mask phishing scams, the type of attack Microsoft designed the browser to thwart. IE 7, released last week, allows a Web site to display a pop-up that can contain a spoofed Web address, security monitoring company Secunia said Wednesday. An attacker could exploit this weakness to trick people into believing they are on a trusted Web site when in fact they are viewing a malicious page, Secunia

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Brokerages lose millions in hacker onslaught | CNET News.com

Brokerages lose millions in hacker onslaught | CNET News.com For more info click on above link High-tech crooks using spyware are costing U.S. discount brokerages millions of dollars to repay clients who have been victimized by fraud, the brokerages said in recent days. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission warned earlier this month that scammers were hijacking online brokerage accounts, using spyware and operating from remote locations. TD Ameritrade Holding on Tuesday became the latest brokerage to confirm the problem. It said it cost $4 million in the third quarter to make whole customers whose accounts had

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Zombies continue to chase Windows PCs | CNET News.com

Zombies continue to chase Windows PCs | CNET News.com For more info click on above link Malicious remote control software continues to be one of the biggest threats to Windows PCs, according to a new Microsoft security report. More than 43,000 new variants of such insidious software were found in the first half of 2006, making them the most active category of malicious software, Microsoft said in a Security Intelligence Report published Monday. In June Microsoft also flagged zombies as the most prevalent threat to Windows PCs. “Attackers, with financial gain in mind, are clearly concentrating a

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With Firefox 2, Mozilla touts security and speed | CNET News.com

With Firefox 2, Mozilla touts security and speed | CNET News.com For more info click on above link Update Mozilla officially released Firefox 2 on Tuesday afternoon, adding security features and a new interface. Firefox 2 was made available for free download at 2:15 p.m. PDT. Mozilla has set up two download sites for the udpate, which it said it has optimized for the expected high volume of traffic, at Getfirefox.com and Mozilla.com/firefox. (Firefox 2 is also available for free via CNET Download.com.)

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