Category Archives: Security
7 Tips for Social Media Safety
Think twice the next time a contact tries to “friend” you on Facebook or “follows” you on Twitter. It may turn out to be an undercover fed looking to scrutinize your employment history or examine your personal references.U.S. law enforcement agents are following people into popular social-networking sites, going undercover with false online profiles to …
Memory exhaustion DoS vulnerability hits Google’s Chrome
Aditya K Sood from the EvilFingers community, which disclosed the first Chrome DoS vulnerability at the beginning of the month, has released a proof of concept demonstrating a memory exhaustion DoS vulnerability affecting Google’s Chrome versions Chrome/0.2.149.30 and Chrome/0.2.149.29 : “The Google chrome browser is vulnerable to memory exhaustion based denial of service which can …
Trojan masquerades as iPhone game
Security firm Sophos warned on Thursday that e-mails being circulated on the Web that purport to offer a free iPhone game instead are carrying a Trojan horse that can take control of infected Windows machines. The e-mails have subject lines like “Virtual iPhone games!” and “Apple: The most popular game!” The attachment is called “Penguin.Panic.zip,” …
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